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Five Views on Video Training
Athletes and coaches talk the importance of game film
Staying square to the volleyball net while blocking: Five steps
Improve your blocking in five steps
The Ring of Truth: Limiting Errors is More Important Than Hitting it Big
The two things that correlate most directly with winning matches, limiting hitting and serving errors
10 Muscle Groups Every Volleyball Player Must Stretch
Our MNT’s head athletic trainer gives stretching tips to improve performance and decrease chances of injury.
Top Five Ways to Create Confidence in Your Teammates
Boost the confidence of your teammates in five simple ways
Variance and Risk Management in Volleyball
There is something that all coaches need to make part of their training at any level. It is breaking tradition to manage and be comfortable with the risks of variance as found in volleyball. Two-time Olympic medal winning coach Hugh McCutcheon termed it risk management.
Train Ugly
About a decade ago my kids and I went up to Lander, Wyoming to run a high school volleyball camp at the base of the Wind River Range, and home of the famous “cheesewheel” (a batter fried cheeseburger) and NOLS, the National Outdoor Leadership School.
Irrelevant Training
This short blog is a response to a coach who felt that worrying that all drills are gamelike was irrelevant. It is not irrelevant, nor anal. It is principle driven.
Top 10 Reasons for a Club to do Sitting Volleyball Training
I am not an expert at the sport of sitting volleyball. The experts are Bill Hamiter, Mike Hulett and Elliot Blake, and the Paralympians who compete in it. However, I have spent over 20 years in growing the disabled game together.