Purpose: An interactive drill that encourages players to play "pure" volleyball, because the athletes are in the dark about what might end the game. How it works: Two teams play out normal points...
https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/unclear-objectives-drill/
Karch Kiraly doesn't want his U.S. women's national team players looking over at him after every play. He wants them to think for themselves so they get used to making "real-time decisions." With...
Joe Sagula and Dan Fisher share insights on reading a server on serve receive.The coaches cover how to to assess stance, toss, and hand movement for reading the serve early. Coach Sagula emphasiz...
https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/mastering-serve-receive-reading-and-communication/
How can you do something as badly as possible? Funny question, right? Maybe so. But it's also a useful question, says Karch Kiraly, who has his players ask it when engaging in a process he calls ...
Explore serve receive fundamentals in this volleyball drill with Joe Sagula, former UNC Head Coach. Understand the key elements of movement and communication in serve receive, especially in the s...
https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/volleyball-serve-receive-fundamentals-team-communication/
To succeed as a head coach, Karch Kiraly says it's important to admit to yourself that "you don't know everything." A good way to complement your own strengths, he notes, is to hire an assistant ...
When Karch Kiraly began coaching, he got this advice from his former USA coach Marv Dunphy: "You can't manage what you don't measure!" In other words, taking stats is important to improvement. Wi...
https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/karch-kiralys-2-minute-take-the-stats-that-matter-most/
Explore different serve receive strategies with Coach Joe Sagula and Coach Dan Fisher. The coaches cover different aspects of building a serve receive unit and how to find the right strategy to s...
https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/learn-different-formations-for-strategic-serve-receive/
Purpose: Three person pepper drill that keeps the diggers accountable for finding the setter with each dig. How it Works: Begin three-person pepper, where one person is in the middle of two playe...
https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/3-person-pepper-find-your-setter/
Culture is best defined simply as ‘the way we do things around here.’ Your team’s culture results in either effective and productive outcomes, or ineffective and unproductive outcomes. At...
https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/creighton-team-culture/
Volleybrains.com is just what it sounds like – the intersection of volleyball and brains. Founded by Matias Raymaekers, a former pro from Belgium whose playing career spanned 16 years, the webs...
Watch Brandon Rosenthal, the head coach of Lipscomb volleyball, present a competitive 6 vs 6 team drill named “Volleyball Tug of War”. This advanced team exercise is designed to simulate the ...
https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/6-vs-6-competitive-tug-of-war-drill/