A half-court setter tutoring scenario

Here's a scenario a coach presented where you need to come up with a way to do setter training on a half court with some constraints.

Remember the importance of visual cues

Remember that player reactions start with properly reading the visual cues, so it makes the most sense to include those cues in training, not remove them.

Training different types of skills

There are different types of skills in volleyball - precise vs. improvisational. Training them each requires a different approach.

The impact of games on development

There are some significant drawbacks to playing games - especially scored ones. With some thought, though, we can work around them to our benefit.

Remember what matters to them

Above and beyond all our coaching priorities we must also account for the priorities of the players when planning and running our sessions.

Using video for better blocker training

Here's an example of how you can use video to dramatically improve blocking drills when training your blockers in real game situations isn't an option.

Getting creative with limited resources

We don't always have the resources we'd like to run the drills we want to run in practice. Here's an example of how I got creative with one, though.

Using process scoring in games

You can use process scoring rather than more standard outcome based scoring to continue your development work in training games.

More is not better. Better is better.

The concept of muscle memory is a misnomer that can lead to incorrect views about the process of motor learning and how best to achieve it.

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