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Sample Volleyball Practice Plans
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A 1-hour practice plan

One day in practice we had an hour, half of which we wanted to devote to 6 v 6 game play. Here's the practice plan we developed.

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Volleyball Games
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Game: Positional winners

There are a number of variations on winners (a.k.a. King/Queen of the court). I started using one that introduces more positional specialization.

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Volleyball Coaching Stories
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Youth volleyball, Swedish style

While coaching at Svedala I got to see the Swedish version of 4 v 4 mini volleyball, which allows a bounce. I made some interesting observations.

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Sample Volleyball Practice Plans
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Training Plan: 11 players, just games

This training session uses cooperative games to warm-up, then moves to small-sided competitive games. The main idea is to get lots of game-like touches.

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Volleyball Coaching
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Lots of players, little space – Help!!

A volleyball coach asked for ideas on handling lots of kids in a small space. Here are a couple of mine. Feel free to share your own.

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