{"id":176,"date":"2013-06-28T10:13:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2013-06-28T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T09:13:45","slug":"game-bingo-bango-bongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2013\/06\/28\/game-bingo-bango-bongo\/","title":{"rendered":"Game: Bingo-Bango-Bongo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> Bingo-Bango-Bongo is a 6 vs. 6 transition oriented game which gets players focused on scoring points in a row using a little point\/big point (<a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/volleyball-coaching-concept-wash-drill\/\">wash<\/a>) type of structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Age\/Skill Level:<\/strong> This game is suitable for intermediate to advanced players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Requirements:<\/strong> Two teams of 6, two coaches\/players, half a dozen balls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Execution:<\/strong> Start with two teams of 6 on the court and one coach (or spare player) on the sideline on either side of the net with balls. One coach initiates a free ball across the net and the teams play through a rally. When that rally finishes, the other coach initiates a free ball in the opposite direction. The coaches then continue to alternate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a team wins a rally they get Bingo. If they win a second rally after that, it&#8217;s Bango. A third rally win in a row produces Bongo. At that point the team with Bongo serves for a point. If they win the service rally they get a point and the teams rotate. If not, the cycle begins again fresh with a free ball to the serving team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Note, when one team wins a Bingo, the other team resets back to nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Variations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In order to give middle blockers a break, you can flip the teams back to front rather than rotating after a big point. I often do something like 1-4-2-5-3-6.<\/li><li>You can rotate\/flip both sides on a big point, or just the winning side. The latter maximizes time working on weaker rotations (but watch fatigue levels).<\/li><li>For lower skilled teams (or when you want to move things along more quickly) you can do Bingo-Bango and have Bongo be the big point. In other words, the serve for point would happen after just two rally wins in a row rather than three.<\/li><li>You can do it with smaller groups, like 4v4, in a smaller space.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Additional Comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The coaches should initiate balls as quickly as is safe to do so to keep the tempo high. This forces the players to maintain focus and adds a <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/how-to-add-conditioning-to-your-volleyball-practice\/\">conditioning<\/a> element.<\/li><li>Any players not involved in the game should be alert to keep balls out of the way. That keeps things moving quickly, and no one risks injury.<\/li><li>Since this is a free ball initiated game, it offers opportunity to wok on specific free ball plays for teams having advanced offenses.<\/li><li>Coach should make sure the team not receiving the free ball is quickly getting to defensive base as the ball is being initiated.<\/li><li>While playing the game with smaller groups like 4v4 would limit the ability to working on full-team free ball offense, there would still be the opportunity to work on elements of it. For example, the setter and middle hitter could work on first tempo balls.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a 6 vs. 6 free ball transition oriented game which gets players focused on scoring points in a row using a little point\/big point type of structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[36,37,38,39,62,157,180,332,490],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-games","tag-3v3","tag-4v4","tag-6v6","tag-advanced","tag-big-pointlittle-point","tag-free-ball","tag-intermediate","tag-transition","tag-wash-drills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","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=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}