A Tale of Two Volleyball Players
A tale of two volleyball players, what defines a good player vs. a great player and how you can help your players become great? The sport of volleyball has undergone a wide variety of changes over the...
View ArticleWes Schneider – The Standard Volleyball Drill
This post contains 2 videos from Wes Schneider’s Standard Drill. How is a 6 on 6 drill where the goal is to have the offense side out at 70% while the defense scores at 50%. If for some reason the...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Hit the Gym For Your Eyes – Volleyball Vision Training
There are roughly 640 muscles in the human body. Athletes spend an inordinate amount of time training and strengthening almost every single one of them. Yet there are six that are often forgotten: the...
View ArticlePeak Performance OODA Loop Vision Training – Level 5 – Exercises
Level 5 – Involves players “Observing,” “Orientating,” “Deciding,” and making an “Action” based upon information on one or more posters while watching and interacting with a separate moving object in...
View ArticlePeak Performance OODA Loop Vision Training – Level 4 – Exercises
Level 4 – Involves players “Observing,” “Orientating,” “Deciding,” and making an “Action” based upon information on one or more posters while watching and interacting with a separate moving object in...
View ArticlePeak Performance OODA Loop Vision Training – Level 3 – Exercises
Level 3 – Involves players “Observing,” “Orientating,” “Deciding,” and making an “Action” based upon information on one or more posters. Players are now ideally in constant motion. The purpose of level...
View ArticlePeak Performance OODA Loop Vision Training – Level 1 – Exercises
Level 1 – Involves players “Observing” and “Orientating” information on one or more posters while being static, meaning not moving. The purpose of level 1 exercises are to help: Acclaimed athletes to...
View ArticleJust Launched – Peak Performance OODA Loop Vision Training Posters
We are excited to announce the launch of our Peak Performance OODA Loop Vision Training Posters. These 27″ x 39″ posters are ideal for helping athletes in all sports including volleyball improve their...
View ArticleVolleyball1on1 OODA Loop Volleyball Vision Coaching Blueprint and Vision...
Why Read This? In the last 6 years the biggest change in coaching the sport of volleyball has be the concept of “Reading the Game.” Yet most coaches teach it wrong in my opinion and in so doing miss so...
View ArticleAVCEx – A Review Of Reid Priddy Answer On My Question To Vision for Spiking
So this past week Reid Priddy (USA Volleyball Indoor Olympian Standout) did a Vlog (Video Blog) on a questions I asked him about vision. The question: “Do you have a vision routine for hitting?” His...
View ArticleWhat Coaches Miss When Teaching Reading the Game – How To Slow The Ball and...
This series of video is the result of over 3 years of personal research on “Reading the Game” and “How To Slow The Ball Down.” In the videos I review why Karch theories on Reading the Game are wrong in...
View ArticleGo Beyond Reading the Game for Volleyball, Slow the Game Down After You...
“Reading the game is the premier skill in volleyball” – Karch Kiraly. I DISAGREE! Great players and coaches go beyond “Reading the game” and have or coach the ability to slow the ball and game down...
View ArticleCoaching Youth Volleyball Blocking Technique – Video 5 – Timing with Chris...
In this videos Chris Harger focuses on timing and setting the block as it relates to coaching youth volleyball blocking technique. Points discussed include: – Timing – Where to set the block based...
View ArticleCoaching Youth Volleyball Blocking Technique – Video 4 – Vision with Chris...
In this videos Chris Harger focuses on vision and “Reading the game” as it relates to coaching youth volleyball blocking technique. Points discussed include: – Visual sequence, ball – setter – ball –...
View ArticlePlayer Self Discovery of Spiking Problems Using the OODA Loop to Focus on...
In this powerful video the OODA Loop coaching cues are used to help the player discover most of her spiking problems have less to do with her technique and more to do with “Reading” and orientation of...
View ArticleResponse Complexity and Its Effects on Reaction Time When Playing Volleyball...
Response Complexity – People organize movements in advance. If the action or skill is more complex, reaction time increases as more time is required to organize the system for movement initiation. In...
View ArticleHow To Coach the OODA Loop Verbal Cues To Youth Players – OODA Loop For...
This article contains a video example and verbal cues of how Andor Gyulai teaches volleyball spiking technique using the OODA Loop. The OODA Loop’s founded by John Boyd (the fighter pilot who changed...
View ArticleHow To OODA Loop Your Opponent Using Hicks Law (Article 6)
I would like to share an easy to use and easy understand example of how to OODA Loop your opponent using Hick’s law. This example was used on me initially quite effectively by my good friend Colin...
View ArticleWhat Current “Reading the Game” Model for Volleyball Coaching Misses –...
In my last article (“Reading the Game” for Volleyball: Reading – Planning – Doing Model) I introduced Karch Kiraly, Hugh McCutcheon, Paula Weishoff, Ron Larson and Tom Black theories on “Reading the...
View Article“Reading the Game” for Volleyball: Reading – Planning – Doing, Model for...
Did you know one of the biggest breakthroughs in the “science of coaching volleyball” today is called “Reading the Game”? Most of the ideas related to this were first introduced by Karch Kiraly...
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