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Reacting to another blogger’s ponderings

Fellow blogger and coaching legend Jim Stone has some things he's been thinking about. Here I share my views on those subjects.

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The defensive progression

A blog article provides a useful progression to think about defending in volleyball, though there are some fuzzy points in the systems side.

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Game: Pro Trips (progressive triples)

This is a series of small-sided games that is a good warm-up exercise, with the possibility to work on some defensive elements.

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Game: To 1

This is a small-sided game that focuses on controlled 3rd contact and can also be a useful warm-up exercise.

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Volleyball Coaching Strategy
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Understand the limits of heat mapping

A fellow volleyball coach highlights a weakness of heat mapping to help decide what type of defense you play

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Should I commit someone to defend tips?

At what point does it make sense to dedicate a defender to take tips, and thus forgo defending spiked balls?

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Pondering a digger rating

We rate passers in serve reception on a point scale. Can we do something similar for defenders to be able to make comparisons?

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Master one defense, or develop familiarity with multiple

Is it best to get great at one defensive system or to develop the ability to play multiple systems? I argue doing the first is basically doing the second.

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To block, or not to block

A fellow blogger has done some analysis of his players' blocking with an eye toward answering the question whether they should even block at all.

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