The coaches have done a really great job when it comes to footwork, but it hurts my eye's to see how they almost all connects their arms far to early. They often run a step or two with already connected armes, and when defending spikes they most of the time have them connected before the spike even falls. That will result in slower movement and what we call gulf swings where the ball goes in the wrong direction if the spike is high to the side. Problematic as it's almost more difficult to relearn than to learn it correctly from the start. From Denmark where I have trained in something we call kidsvolley with even younger kids, but I also train older kids and have trained grown-ups. Found the video as I'm looking for simple, but fun, drills for a team of completely unschooled 13-14-year-old girls, I just started up last week. Obviously, the new players are worse than thise in almost every possible way, but at least half have got the arms right part by now already. Hard a 6 years old 1 on 1 some weeks ago, she had never played volley, but something we call handball so she have some understanding of ball games. After 30 minutes she got the armed part and could connect the arms late and pass 2/3 of the balls passed to her with late connection. I'm not saying this to diss these girls or their coaches, in many ways they is really impressive. But I feel like they are doing them a disservice by letting them pass like that in drills. It's not that hard! I have seen teams of grown women standing with their armes to their sides as they are supposed to, but then connecting their arms before the attack falls and before starting to run after a ball. It's really bad skills and often result in them never getting the ball or passing the ball backward when they try to pass it forward. When i told them, they even say 'thats what our old coach told us' still after a few weeks they did the same.
I agree. The coaches are doing great by having these young girls move. I coach 7th grade girls and they dont move like this. In Fact, watching how these girls move just tells me as a coach that they are "All In". Good Job Coach....
In all ways but one agree, but teach them to move and then connect the arms where they wanna play the ball, and to connect the arms where the ball comes when defending, unlike those girls who did it before. That only works as the coach attacks directly at them. This is something that is more difficult to relearn than to learn correctly fro the start.
Those girls are very good for their age. All the basic skills they already possess. With the age they will get stronger physically and the small errors will be overcome. I have seen men with more than 20 years of experience who cannot do half the things these girls can do already. Great job!
I agree, but I have seen players who have played for 10-20 years making one of the bigger mistakes they almost all make. Connecting their armes before they are where they need to be. They should really have focused on connecting the armed later and where the ball is going to be played. The girls in the video often connect the armed and run one or two steps, and often also connect their armes even before the attack falls. That's poor skills and something that's really hard to relearn, compared to learning to do it right from the start.
These players are rock solid for their age - There many more clubs out there who don't posses the extensive equipment, facilities, staff, etc. and struggle with basic fundamentals that could use more in depth analysis and observation like this to improve overall drills, focus, performance, etc. I'm sure many out there would greatly appreciate such videos and insight as quite honestly, there are coaches who are dealing with trying to just maintain the attention of players of this age...
Hey! Thanks for sharing these excercices! I did the 3th ex on my practice and have a nice variation found with more movment. if intrested I could share it with you!
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Stay - Switch - Rotate If the ball is right on a player, they all stay Ball goes deep in between middle back and a wing defender, those two switch (MB plays the ball) Ball in the short center, one of the two wing defenders takes the ball. Whoever does, all three rotate in that direction. Goal is for the defenders to call the action as it happens and move easily while playing the ball
Love all of this except that they are playing 6 up. Would rather develop them for the future by playing 6 back and teaching corners to take short balls
Looks like good movement in the legs and good control, however personally I would not wanna have them keep their arms connected between passes. I think that's a bad habit it takes to long to get them to lose again. It's possible the short time between passes makes it too difficult to get back to the ready position in between for them, but if so I would change it so that they can.
look at 0:37 the bad habit carries over, the girl there connects her arms before she has got where she needs to be. That resulted in her doing a kind of weird running pass when she should not have to(it did end up in more or less the right place). I have no problem in doing running or flying passes for that matter, but only if that's the only way they will get there.
Again in next drill 4:54 arms to gather before the attack even falls. Easy enough when the attack comes right at you, as the coach does. But not something that will be that helpful against an opponent that will spike hard but high on your sides or softer but where you have to move a few steps. That for me is what they should have had focused on from now on, if it wasn't 5 years old video.
Agree, I am currently coaching a squad of 12 girls of the same age, they are mostly true beginners so ball control is nowhere near what is seen in this video.
Same here John. Half our girls cannot toss the ball consistently much less pass. Then again we are only 1x/week for a couple months. :-) This is amazing.
@@gforce411 I Coach 7th graders. And my girls are not even close to ball control. Reagardless for us Taking 1st place in our league. The girls in this video will sure keep my girls on thier toes. Thats the Truth... Great job to the Coaches as well a the girls.
The coaches have done a really great job when it comes to footwork, but it hurts my eye's to see how they almost all connects their arms far to early. They often run a step or two with already connected armes, and when defending spikes they most of the time have them connected before the spike even falls. That will result in slower movement and what we call gulf swings where the ball goes in the wrong direction if the spike is high to the side. Problematic as it's almost more difficult to relearn than to learn it correctly from the start. From Denmark where I have trained in something we call kidsvolley with even younger kids, but I also train older kids and have trained grown-ups. Found the video as I'm looking for simple, but fun, drills for a team of completely unschooled 13-14-year-old girls, I just started up last week. Obviously, the new players are worse than thise in almost every possible way, but at least half have got the arms right part by now already. Hard a 6 years old 1 on 1 some weeks ago, she had never played volley, but something we call handball so she have some understanding of ball games. After 30 minutes she got the armed part and could connect the arms late and pass 2/3 of the balls passed to her with late connection. I'm not saying this to diss these girls or their coaches, in many ways they is really impressive. But I feel like they are doing them a disservice by letting them pass like that in drills. It's not that hard! I have seen teams of grown women standing with their armes to their sides as they are supposed to, but then connecting their arms before the attack falls and before starting to run after a ball. It's really bad skills and often result in them never getting the ball or passing the ball backward when they try to pass it forward. When i told them, they even say 'thats what our old coach told us' still after a few weeks they did the same.
... and when you go take the CAP, USAV "instructors" insisting on the play for learn, philosophy? always game-like situations. When I going to take my CAP III, I will take this video to them, and see if the method they want is all ok.
