A few issues have come up on social media lately that compelled me to begin pondering. Pressured me to begin serious about how it’s that folks essentially misunderstand some ideas in volleyball and training.
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The primary was this instagram reel promoted as a drill to enhance studying. It’s clearly not a studying drill, however why is it not apparent to others.
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What’s studying? Studying is the commentary and processing of recreation cues. Good commentary and processing of recreation cues results in selecting optimum recreation outcomes (resolution making) and finally executing them within the service of the group.
So let’s take a second to assessment the above drill. Which recreation cues is the blocker observing? I’ll wait so that you can watch once more. The proper reply is zero. There is no such thing as a reception, no setter, no set, no assault. There’s zero recreation data contained in that drill. The blocker should make a selection, sure, however not based mostly on something which may occur in a recreation.
That isn’t to say the drill doesn’t have a spot in coaching, or that it doesn’t have a constructive impact on some components of efficiency. It can not nonetheless be mentioned that a type of constructive results is in bettering studying abilities.
On the same word, a publish on a training website, I don’t bear in mind which, requested for recommendation on bettering some aspect of timing in assault. The proferred recommendation included issues reminiscent of tape and different objects on the ground, none of which had any relationship to timing. So the place does the recommendation come from?
What’s timing? With apologies to Johan Cruyff, good timing is being in the appropriate place on the proper time. So what precisely is that place and time? That could be a nice query. As unsatisfying as it could be, the reply to that query is, it relies upon. It is dependent upon the motion of the ball and the gamers on the courtroom. Each scenario is exclusive.
So what occurs once we put issues on the ground? The very first thing we do is look down, ie not on the ball. So proper there we all know that any such drill can’t be coaching timing. We will create a drill which may appear to be it approximates timing underneath a selected set of circumstances however as soon as actuality intrudes we can’t be stunned that the connection between participant and ball not holds.
That isn’t to say the drill doesn’t have a spot in coaching, or that it doesn’t have a constructive impact on some components of efficiency. It can not nonetheless be mentioned that a type of constructive results is improved timing.
Sadly, it doesn’t matter how inventive a coach could be, the one method to enhance studying and timing abilities is to do issues that very intently roughly a recreation. The coach may simplify conditions to show commentary abilities and scale back attainable choices, or present suggestions on eye work (really they’ve to do this anyway), and even simplify method (do you actually need a 4 step method?) however ultimately the gamers really have to do actual reps. And, sure, that takes time. Generally a very long time, however in some issues there aren’t any shortcuts.
