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This is a periodic update in my role as Indoor Performance Director for Volleyball England. I laid out the high level priorities under which I’m operating in my initial post.

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Here are two non-volleyball books I listened too that I think can have value to volleyball coaches. Neither is very long, especially if you play them at 1.5 speed as I did. I think I got through each in just about a day’s worth of commuting. At least when I purchased them, they were also inexpensive. The two books have very different aims, but both offer useful prompts for co...

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Some of the drills I see don’t work on what they say they work on (like this one). Some drills actually work against what they’re indicated as working on. This drill falls into that latter category.

As you’ll see, it features players tossing beanbags, th...

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Before I talk about this specific video, I want to say something about individual training. By that I mean things a player does by themselves rather than a 1:1 session with a coach.

For the most part, you cannot create the same contextual environment by yourself. That means anything to do with reading, timing, decision-making, and the like is very hard to incorpora...

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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 t...

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