Here’s a video of a drill that’s indicated as working on Setter IQ. The description specifically says “Call the color = read the defense + disguise the set”.
Major problem. I don’t see any IQ work happening. To my mind, IQ training involves decision-making. There’s none of that here.
I have no problem with the visual cues of the colored cones to help get the Setters to attune their vision. But there is literally no decision-making happening in this drill. All the sets are to 2. If you really want to make this about IQ training, have the setter have to set either to 2 or 4 based on the color raised. Then progress that cue to be more positioning and/or movement of the blocker to make it more realistic.
As to disguising the set, I’m not sure I see any real focus on that here. Maybe there’s verbal feedback involved that we don’t see/here. Better, though, would be for a blocker to try to read the Setter and guess the direction. That would double the amount of training going on.
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