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“Volleyball1on1 has created a 350-page Volleyball1on1 Coaching Manual, available exclusively to High School Head Coaches,with a systematized coaching formula designed to promote their success. 80% of businesses fail in the first 5 years and 96% failin the first ten. Coaches leave the profession at that same rate and it is way too high. High School…
High School Head Volleyball Coaches, are you looking to make running a practice EASIER, more EFFICIENT, and EFFECTIVE? Are you looking to leapfrog your program forward? We are excited to share with you our NEW Volleyball1on1 Practice Plan Outline Poster © ( 24” by 36” inch)! This poster helps youth coaches make practice EASIER by…
Are you looking for a groundbreaking “easy to use” system to improve your team’s offense in every rotation “year after year” with pin point accuracy? Volleyball1on1 has pioneered and launched a new product never seen before for High School Head Coaches and their programs. It is called our “Game Plan Offense Poster” and it is…
Science has proven the correct doses of stress on the human body results in growth, both mentally and physically. Great High School Head Coaches understand this powerful facilitator to human growth. These coaches have learned how to purposely stress an athlete in practice without hitting the point of physical or mental break down. In the…
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Are You Successfully Sharing Your Passion As A Volleyball Coach? Having a passion can help you as a coach create the energy needed to make massive positive change in the world through your players, staff, and parents. At Volleyball1on1 we help High School Head Varsity Coaches successfully define their passion and how to make that…
In today’s information overloaded online world many volleyball coaches are driven towards the belief that they, as High School Varsity Head Coaches need to be like a fox in that they know everything there is to know about the sport of volleyball. This formula quickly leads to disaster due to lack of focus, lack of…
Section 1 – Volleyball1on1 OODA Loop Vision Coaching Blueprint Introduction In the last 7 years the biggest change in coaching the sport of volleyball has been “Reading the Game.” Most coaches teach it wrong in our opinion and miss where they can help their players best. We have spent the last seven years researching and…
Web View VolleyBall1on1 | March 30, 2018 Marina Del Rey, CA, USA Jason Lockhead Beach Practice Jason is considered one of the top beach volleyball coaches in the world. His top teams include the worlds best players like Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena. This practice includes some great beach drills that…
Web View VolleyBall1on1 | 21st March, 2018 Marina Del Rey, CA, USA 7-Steps For A Program Turn Around In this article I am going to review how a small high school turned their girls’ varsity volleyball program around and created a culture of winning, success, and learning. We at Volleyball1on1 have repeated this successfully many…
The stringency of the philosophy “the game teaches the game” can at times be overwhelming and discouraging to players. Now don’t get me wrong, I am a big believer in random, game-like reps, where players learn to “read the game” and practice what is the norm, “out of system volleyball plays,” while developing a love…
Successfully Coaching The Millennial Generation Millennial’s offer many unique coaching challenges. “Positive Reinforcement” may be one of the biggest mistakes most coaches make when coaching this generation. We teach at Volleyball1on1 the importance of “Recognizing Excellence” vs. “Positive Reinforcement” as an important coaching concept. We see many High School Varsity Coaches and their staff miss…
This video features 25-30 verbal cues and ideas when teaching volleyball passing. Normally I would teach this over several sessions and include drills but due to the limited time in this session I put allot of it together in this 13 minute video. This video is great for coaches and players who want to learn how to pass a volleyball or get better and serve receive or coaching serve receive.
This is Jason Lockhead Beach Volleyball Superman Scramble Defense Drill. This drill helps with both technique as well as trains players to chase every ball. The drill is easy yet effective. The drill also will help players build a strong cardiovascular base.
This video features Alan Knipe sharing coaching advice on volleyball passing communication. Advice includes communication, calling and understanding seam responsibilities, building trust and more. This video will help you become better at passing and serve reception. Alan Knipe was the 2012 USA Men’s Coach for the Olympics in London. Alan is arguably one of the top coaches in the world and is currently the head coach at Long Beach State for the men’s team.
This video features Alan Knipe sharing tip for a better pre-serve volleyball passing routine. This video will help you become better at passing and serve reception. Alan Knipe was the 2012 USA Men’s Coach for the Olympics in London. Alan is arguably one of the top coaches in the world and is currently the head coach at Long Beach State for the men’s team.
This video series features Pedro Brazao taking the players through a guided hard angle hit ball with a line block off a server to either player. If the defender does not dig the ball the coach puts in another ball. This video has the funniest in action sequence we have ever filmed! “This will hopefully teach you young guys a lesson about making fun of old fat guys who are just getting back into it and trying to get in shape! We were young guns too and in many cases brought a much much bigger cannon! :)” – Andor Gyulai – With a Bazooka
This article and video series reviews how beach volleyball players who develop a “Game Plan Offense” can takes advantage of “Learned Automatic Response” and “Implicit Guidance” to beat opponents and overcome physical disadvantages on the court. The tactic I will discuss were used quite successfully in the 2016 Olympics to defeat Kerri Walsh Jennings and…
This volleyball practice plan is a D1 NCAA College Women’s Indoor Reading the Game Practice. This practice will help coaches with important concepts and drills related to the topic. Additionally Andor and Tom filmed individual videos in Tom office discussing the topic.
This video is a great example of something Stein picked up while competing in Boulder, Colorado on the AVP Pro Tour that really helped him be a better player and get more kills and more aces while playing at altitude. The technique is call the “Goose Neck – Snap it Like a Pig”.
Stein presents part 17 of 27 for setters. Shown are several volleyball setting drills that can be done solo.
Logan coaches volleyball spiking in this series of instructional videos. The fundamentals are shown in great detail for beginners and pros alike.
This series of 14 videos features a Multi-Directional Workout filmed at Velocity Newport Mesa with Sports Performance Coach Chase Cameron. This is the third of 3 workouts filmed at Velocity Sports Performance. The other workouts were a Linear Training Day and a Jump / Landing Day.
This youth club volleyball practice plan was from a practice we filmed with Gary Sato coaching his daughters club team in Carson California. The videos are extremely insightful as it is not often you get to see a coach of Gary’s reputation coach kids at this level.
Get on the bus, youth and beginners volleyball rotation drill is a great drill to help kids learn the important ideas behind rotating successfully on a volleyball court. The concepts taught in this drill are easy to understand with the result that kids just get it and are able to pick up on ideas far faster than teaching
I am excited to announce I will be speaking at the 2017 AVCA Convention to introduce a new volleyball coaching technique for beach volleyball. For those who follow Volleyball1on1 know I love to innovate (See more) as it relates to coaching volleyball and this new technique was the result of many years for work look…
This video was filmed for our AVCA Video Tip of the Week series with Andor Gyulai. I filmed this video to share some of the concepts I learned with Dr. Bill Harrison about volleyball vision and reading the game.
Beyond being used as a better tool for “Reading the Game” and teaching Volleyball Skills more effectively the OODA Loop is a powerful way for players and coaches to approach Volleyball Strategy.
Colonel John Boyd the military strategist who rewrote the book on modern air warfare and the man behind the OODA Loop believed that when at a disadvantage a competent pilot could still overcome that disadvantage by “Attacking the Mind” of his opponent.
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 Superior Oblique, Superior Rectus, Medial Rectus, Lateral Rectus, Inferior Rectus, and Inferior Oblique. Or, simply put: Your eyes. The aforementioned six…
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 constant motion while being actively distracted with the goal of moving the player out of their visual sensory mode. The purpose of level 5 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 constant motion. The purpose of level 4 exercises are to help: Track a moving object, While scanning between 1, 2 or more posters, While performing…
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 3 exercises are to help: Improve “scanning for objects” while in motion. This is far more difficult than when stationary Improve players skill through…