Skill of the Week: Making the end of the season fun and effective

Scenario: Do's and don'ts for when players miss practice

The Art of Coaching Volleyball's videos of the week focused on practice planning:

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/annual-plan/ Terry Liskevych

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/4-week-practice-plan-week-1/ Jim Stone Week 1

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/4-week-practice-plan-week-2/ Jim Stone Week 2

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/4-week-practice-plan-week-3/ Jim Stone Week 3

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/4-week-practice-plan-week-4/ Jim Stone Week 4
https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/4-week-practice-plan/ Jim Stone All 4 weeks

The Resource of the Week is The Art of Coaching Volleyball's Printables and Handouts section, which can be found here: https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/category/resources/printables/

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Handcuffed Speedball Doubles, Starting a brand new volleyball program for kids, and The Playmaker's Advantage

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Skill/Drill of the Week: Using constraints and the drill "Speedball" in conjunction with one another for speedy improvement

Scenario of the Week: Starting a brand new volleyball program

The Art of Coaching Volleyball videos that we focused on this week had to do with using doubles in practice:

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/dynamic-warmup-drill-2-contact-queen-of-the-court/ Tod Mattox

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/alternatives-deep-court/ Tod Mattox

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/small-group-drill-two-contacts/ Kirsten Bernthal Booth

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/tryout-drill/ Ryan Hofer

The Resource of the Week is:

The Playmaker's Advantage: How To Raise Your Mental Game To the Next Level by Leonard Zaichkowsky and Daniel Peterson, which can be found here:

https://www.amazon.com/Playmakers-Advantage-Raise-Mental-Level/dp/1501181866

Get more kills from smaller teams, My players' parents are habitually negative, and VNL

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Skill of the Week:

Get more kills from smaller teams

Scenario of the Week:

My players' parents are habitually negative

The Art of Coaching Volleyball videos that we discussed this week are:

Ken Murczek's first ball kill drill

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/first-ball-kill-drill/

Diane Flick-Williams' drill for increasing first ball kill efficiency

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/cornhole-hitting-drill-for-improving-first-ball-kill-percentage/

Joe Sagula's first ball kill drill

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/first-ball-kill-drill-to-maximize-scoring-opportunities/

Jill Kramer from TCU on out of system play https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/jill-kramer-talks-out-of-system-play/

The Resource of the Week is:

The Volleyball Nations League (VNL) which be found here:

https://en.volleyballworld.com/volleyball/competitions/volleyball-nations-league/