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Volleyball Coaching Strategy
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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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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.

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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?

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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.

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Volleyball Coaching Q&A
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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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