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Olympic gold medalist Eric Fonoimoana demonstrates Volleyball Stretching – Butterfly.
The TRAINERmat is designed for both indoor and outdoor volleyball fitness. This sport-specific mat features the strengthening and stretching exercises used by professional volleyball players worldwide. The mat’s 27 exercises are ideal for anyone who wants to improve their sport performance.
Olympic gold medalist Eric Fonoimoana demonstrates Volleyball Stretching – Quad Hip Flexor.
The TRAINERmat is designed for both indoor and outdoor volleyball fitness. This sport-specific mat features the strengthening and stretching exercises used by professional volleyball players worldwide. The mat’s 27 exercises are ideal for anyone who wants to improve their sport performance.
Olympic gold medalist Eric Fonoimoana demonstrates 11 through 15 of the 27 exercises designed by him and fellow gold medalist Misty May-Treanor on the TRAINERmat.
The TRAINERmat is designed for both indoor and outdoor volleyball fitness. This sport-specific mat features the strengthening and stretching exercises used by professional volleyball players worldwide.
Olympic gold medalist Eric Fonoimoana demonstrates Volleyball Stretching – Calf Stretch.
The TRAINERmat is designed for both indoor and outdoor volleyball fitness. This sport-specific mat features the strengthening and stretching exercises used by professional volleyball players worldwide. The mat’s 27 exercises are ideal for anyone who wants to improve their sport performance.
Olympic gold medalist Eric Fonoimoana demonstrates Volleyball Stretching – Downward Dog.
The TRAINERmat is designed for both indoor and outdoor volleyball fitness. This sport-specific mat features the strengthening and stretching exercises used by professional volleyball players worldwide. The mat’s 27 exercises are ideal for anyone who wants to improve their sport performance.
Olympic gold medalist Eric Fonoimoana demonstrates Volleyball Stretching – Legs Apart.
The TRAINERmat is designed for both indoor and outdoor volleyball fitness. This sport-specific mat features the strengthening and stretching exercises used by professional volleyball players worldwide. The mat’s 27 exercises are ideal for anyone who wants to improve their sport performance.
Olympic gold medalist Eric Fonoimoana demonstrates Volleyball Stretching – Forward Bend
The TRAINERmat is designed for both indoor and outdoor volleyball fitness. This sport-specific mat features the strengthening and stretching exercises used by professional volleyball players worldwide. The mat’s 27 exercises are ideal for anyone who wants to improve their sport performance.
Olympic gold medalist Eric Fonoimoana demonstrates Eric Fonoimoana Volleyball Stretching – Quad Stretch.
The TRAINERmat is designed for both indoor and outdoor volleyball fitness. This sport-specific mat features the strengthening and stretching exercises used by professional volleyball players worldwide. The mat’s 27 exercises are ideal for anyone who wants to improve their sport performance.
Olympic gold medalist Eric Fonoimoana demonstrates Volleyball Stretching – Pec Stretch.
The TRAINERmat is designed for both indoor and outdoor volleyball fitness. This sport-specific mat features the strengthening and stretching exercises used by professional volleyball players worldwide. The mat’s 27 exercises are ideal for anyone who wants to improve their sport performance.
This Volleyball Practice Plan is a early season volleyball practice design for players of all skill levels. The primary focus of this practice is two fold,
– Helpful Do and Don’t for Your First Volleyball Practice as a Coach
– Useful Volleyball Passing Drills, Technique and More to Help Build Strong Fundamentals in Volleyball Passing and Volleyball Serve Reception.
The float serve is the most fundamental can’t miss serve in volleyball. Twelve year coach and pro player David Fischer breaks it down. The float is presented and done in three steps from the toss through to contact with the ball. Gum up the opponents offense with different speeds and locations of the ball.
The back one attack has one difference from it’s cousin the middle one. The set is behind the setter. For this adjustment Jeff presents this instructional video series to help middle blockers spike better.
Core training and exercise is critical for optimal performance and health. A good core workout improves spiking and passing to defense and blocking. Marcin walks through a series of videos to strengthen the core.
1. Front plank is essential for core strength. Keep it simple with elbows beneath the chest and hold that position.
Shoulder health and preventing rotator cuff injuries applies to all volleyball players. In this series of videos Marcin talks about exercises to keep the shoulder healthy.
1. Thumb down cross body pull effectively helps to slow down the arm after spiking the ball.
2. Horizontal cable cross-over’s start by pulling the cable out to 90 degrees with the hips solid for a stable base.
3. Reverse “Y” begins with the thumb facing up and pulling up in a “Y” motion on the cable.
4. To do single sided bicycles place the feet shoulder width apart with the back on the floor. Put one hand behind the head and touch the shoulder to the opposite knee.
5. Resistance band shoulder flexion is done with high intensity and very fast reps.
6. Lat pulls requires a steady pace for the largest muscles in the back.
Marcin demonstrates a video series on how to warm up dynamically before each volleyball match or practice.
Dynamic warm up before lifting increases a players strength and prevents injuries. Marcin presents a series of videos on excellent warm up exercises for volleyball lifting.
This is a great video and drill where you see exactly how Bill Ferguson and Jeff Nygaard run blocking trips.
This video contains more details on how football and USC football influences Bills Coaching Philosophy. Another great video for coaches to help them improve how they develop their students and team as well as how to run a successful practice and program. Also this contains some great information on verbal cues and how visual imagery used in football.
Priscilla discusses and demonstrates playing defense for blockers. This video shows how a blocker is still responsible for short shots directly behind them.
The perfect pokey and how it is done is shown by Alicia in this video series. Every player must have this move in their arsenal.
1. What the pokey is and a drill to get started
2. How to use the pokey on defense
3. Quickly adjust when the ball is hit easy and the hands are already up high
In this video Brian offers advice to young volleyball players looking to play in college. This is a great video full of useful advice. My favorite observation was that Misty May probably played more volleyball by the time she reached college than her entire team on the court combined!
http://youtu.be/Oj9IwxkC64c
Bryan Gimmillaro success as a volleyball coach is second to few! As such when he speaks and gives volleyball coaching advice I recommend you listen! Now Brian is far more humble in his delivery than I but in my years of shooting video and coaching volleyball his words of advice are truly impressive.
http://youtu.be/CCo89NQD5P8
Brian Gimmillaro is one of the greatest coaches in college indoor volleyball history and in this video he shares secrets to his famous volleyball warm up drill. This drill for volleyball focuses on a large number of ball touches in a very short period of time.
I am excited to anounce I will be helping the AVCA, the largest volleyball coaching association in the world with instructional volleyball videos, volleyball drills and volleyball information
My goal is too add one new blog each week, with valuable content including an instructional video where possible! Below is this weeks video and blog!
his Volleyball Drill is for Setters and Hitters to work on running plays off of an in-system pass. Each Setter will gain court awareness during this fast-paced drill. Each rep will make them a better player along with making their teammates better at passing and hitting.
Skill Level: This Volleyball Drill is used for beginner to intermediate skill level.
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This series contains 6 videos by Olympian Stein Metzger on how to dig a volleyball.
In this article Gold Medalist Eric Fonoimoana presents 6 instructional volleyball coaching videos on how to bump a volleyball.
Hi, I’m Mike Diehl, fifteen year indoor volleyball pro including three time league MVP, league kill leader and league ace leader. Also Bud 4-man beach tour MVP, kill leader and NCAA Champion at UCLA. Today I am going to share the secrets on how to block a volleyball in the outside positions of two and four.
This article discusses some of the early history of volleyball including its inventor, the YMCA and some early rules.
He was the first foreign born player to win an AVP event. Stein Metzger gives him credit for teaching what is now known as the Steino Pokey Shot! Earned his first outdoor domestic title in 2001 with Scott Ayakatubby at Huntington Beach. Won his first AVP event with with Jose Loiola in 1995 indoors at…
*1897 ASSOCIATION ATHLETIC LEAGUE HANDBOOK – VOLLEY BALL / Mintonette* During the winter of 1895-96, Mr. W.G. Morgan of Holyoke, Mass., developed a game in his gymnasium which he called Volley Ball. It was presented to the succeeding Physical Directors’ Conference and the general impression seemed to be that it would fill a place not…
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