Offensive Focus: Spread vs Overload
There are two basic approaches to offensive systems you can take in volleyball. Either your look to spread things out or your look to overload the block.
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volleyball offense
Doing back row attacking right
Back row attacking - especially in the women's game - tends not to have a high success rate. If you do things right, though, you can improve that.
Are you training out-of-system enough?
Are you working on out-of-system play enough in your practices? By that I mean does that work match the amount of time you're out-of-system when playing?
Back row attacker in 5 or 6
Why you might decide to put your back row attacker in Position 5 and why I think that is not the best decision if you don't have other reasons.
Thoughts on second contact when setter-out
What should you do when your setter has to play the first ball during a rally? Who should take the second contact to set the offense?
Coaching Volleyball
Looking at offensive performance by set and pass quality
In this post I look at some offensive numbers from the 2017 Midwestern State season, noting what was surprising and looking at where improvement was needed.
What is zero tempo?
What is a zero tempo set in volleyball? How is it different than a first tempo set? Those are the questions for this blog post.
Kill percentage off perfect pass
A dip into the Coaching Volleyball mail bag produced a question about the expected kill percentage when a team passes a perfect ball.
Trying to hide setter signals or make fake calls
How much does hiding your team's play calls from the other side or trying to fake them out really make a difference? Probably not as much as you'd think.