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Teaching center-line passing vs. platform angle

There is a long-running debate over how to train players to receive serve. Is center-line passing the better choice? Or should platform angle be the focus?

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Move your feet or move your platform?

"Move your feet" is often heard respect to serve reception. Given the importance of platform angle, should we instead be saying "move your platform"?

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Having a pre-serve process

When it comes to a pre-serve process keep in mind that both servers and passers should have them and that in both cases they should be simple.

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More on servers vs. passers games

Following on some earlier thinking about developing a way to work on serving and passing in a competitive way, I tried a new scoring system for a game.

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2015-16 Svedala Volleybollklubb
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Coaching Log – Jan 25, 2016

Not a good week, unfortunately, as we lost our first league home match of the season, then lost a tough one on the road on the weekend.

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Philosophy question: serve reception scoring

Some work I did on serving and serve reception got me thinking about the value of including missed serves in pass ratings.

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2015-16 Svedala Volleybollklubb
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Coaching Log – Jan 18, 2016

This is an entry in my volleyball coaching log for 2015-16. This week saw our focus shift back to Elitserie play, with our first league match of the second half on Saturday....

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2015-16 Svedala Volleybollklubb
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Coaching Log – Dec 21, 2015

A hard-fought loss at Brøndby kept us from being top of the Oresund Liga standings at the break, but we did finish the first half top of the Elitserie.

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