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Wow. Fuck you. Do you see how beautiful this jumping one hand backwards set is? How much on point the ball was set? This is 100% precision. Backwards. Jumping. With one hand. What the fuck. I am done.
source: https://youtu.be/OKhb6hX_PMg?t=83
Planning out a day of setter training
New blog post: Planning out a day of setter training
A volleyball coach in a Facebook group presented the following scenario/query: I’m running a camp next week for 3 days from 9-3pm with a 1 hour lunch break in the middle but it’s all for setters. The first half is setters only and the second half I have hitters coming in to work on hitting off the setters. I expect to have a very mixed bag of setter talent. I have a little list of things I think…
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Non-libero setting when setter-out
New blog post: Non-libero setting when setter-out
Terry Pettit, who I interviewed for Volleyball Coaching Wizards, posted something on Facebook that’s interesting to think about. Let me suggest something radical. As teams continue to attack the opposing setter, a higher percentage of the match has become the libero bump setting a pin hitter. The game slows down, and unless a team has an elite outside attacker receiving the bump set, players are…
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The importance of court awareness for setters
New blog post: The importance of court awareness for setters
There’s an interesting snippet from the book Peak – which I reviewed. It speaks of quarterbacks, but I think it relates quite well to setters.
“Something very similar is true for football, although it is mainly the quarterback who needs to develop mental representations of events on the field. This explains why the most successful quarterbacks are generally the ones who spend the most time in…
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Setter: Go for everything or call for help?
Setter: Go for everything or call for help?
I came across the following question in a coaching group.
Would you rather your setter (athletic, quick, accurate) in a 5-1 offense hustle to get every single ball no matter where it is on the court (within reason)?
OR
Call for help when the ball is on the opposite side of the court?
This is actually a subject I touched on in my court communication post.
Here’s my foundational…
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Non-Setter Setting: Are you working on it?
Non-Setter Setting: Are you working on it?
On my trip around Europe in August and September there’s a consistent thing that I’ve seen. Actually, I saw it on my prior travels as well.
That’s non-setters working on setting.
When I say this I don’t just mean working on out-of-system play. Many coaches do that sort of thing. That, though, generally just means whoever the designated secondary setter takes the second ball. For example,…
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Teaching setters good distribution
Teaching setters good distribution
Here’s a question I saw posted to an online volleyball coaches group.
How do you teach your setters game management? Who to set in crunch time situations. Right now I have a setter at the high school level who seems to want to set everyone equally even when he struggles with certain sets.
The question frames the set distribution question in a very interesting, but very common way. A lot of…
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Deciding on a starting setter
I came across the following question in a coaching group on the subject of picking the team’s starting setter.
How do you rank/rate setters when trying to decide a starter? Seems like a lot of what they do is based on what others do on the court. We have four above average setters, but no great standout, so basing some numbers on who’s the best would be great.
For the sake of simplicity, I’m…
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