{"id":16114,"date":"2016-11-16T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=16114"},"modified":"2016-11-16T08:00:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T14:00:38","slug":"convincing-players-random-better-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/16\/convincing-players-random-better-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Convincing players random is better than blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Kessel has long been a major advocate of making things as game-like as possible where volleyball training is concerned. In one of his blog posts<\/a> he talks about the “false confidence” blocked training<\/a> (simply doing reps) can create in players – and coaches. It has long been a major feature of the USA Volleyball training philosophy, and showed through in the CAP program<\/a>. It definitely was a common thread when I did my CAP III course<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve done my fair share of that as well. Going beyond maximizing player contacts<\/a> is one example. As game-like as possible<\/a> is another. Episode #17 of the Volleyball Coaching Wizards podcast<\/a> also has blocked vs. random training as its theme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the question, though.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

How do we convince players that more game-like training is better?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once, during a serving and passing drill, the Midwestern State setters took turns setting off of the pass. One asked why they did not just do one setter at a time. She wanted more repetition “to develop a rhythm”. My response was she never set two balls in a row in a game. She started to push back, but I told her she always does something in between. There’s hitter coverage and blocking and defense, among other things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That mollified this particular player. I’ve had others on different teams, though, who felt like block reps were better than game-like ones. One of them once told me they let her pass without having to think about anything else. She was an OH who obviously had to think about attacking as well in actual game play. Plus, there’s that pesky issue of dealing with seam responsibility when passing next to another player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like in anything else, we have a mixture of personalities among our players. Some are open-minded and accept what you say. They are at least willing to try. At the other end is the close-minded group. They fight you on things. They say stuff like, “We’ve always done it like this,” or “This way works for me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s fine if those players aren’t key performers or team leaders. You can marginalize them if they persist with the negative attitude. If they are leaders, though, it creates a major problem. They say things like “This is stupid.” That has serious negative consequences for both team chemistry and coach authority. It cannot be tolerated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, how do we convince the more resistant players that more game-like training is superior to blocked training? Please leave a comment below with your thoughts or experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The science says making training more game-like is better for skill development. Sometimes our players push back, though. How can we get them turned around?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[107,112,125,435],"class_list":["post-16114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-coaching-philosophy","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-communication","tag-volleyball-practice-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}