{"id":21047,"date":"2019-02-06T09:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=21047"},"modified":"2019-02-06T09:00:32","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:00:32","slug":"are-you-teaching-your-receivers-to-read-the-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/06\/are-you-teaching-your-receivers-to-read-the-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you teaching your receivers to read the server?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A while back I reviewed Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise<\/a>. In it there is an interesting quote I think highly relevant to volleyball. It might not seem like it at first, but stick with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“These representations enable them to quickly recognize what sort of pitch is coming and where it will likely be when it reaches them. As soon as they see the pitcher\u2019s arm come around and the ball leave his hand, they have a very good idea\u2014without having to do any sort of conscious calculations\u2014whether it will be a fastball, slider, or curve and approximately where it\u2019s heading. In essence, they\u2019ve learned to read the pitcher\u2019s delivery, so they have less need to actually see how the ball travels before determining whether and where to swing the bat. The rest of us, who are illiterate where pitching is concerned, simply can\u2019t make these decisions before the ball arrives in the catcher\u2019s mitt.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The “representations” mentioned in the quote are mental constructs in our mind. They are a big part of what the book talks about. Developing expertise, the authors suggest, is about building increasingly powerful representations related to the activity in question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, can you see how this relates to volleyball? Think about serve reception. The passer does something very similar to a batter in baseball. They want to pick up direction, speed, spin, etc. as quickly as possible. Doing so lets them decide on the right course of action and begin moving sooner – or not, if the ball isn’t theirs. Passers don’t have a lot of time to react<\/a>, so that read from the server is critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So are you teaching your receivers to read the server? Or do you focus solely on feet and platform<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the player doesn’t get a good read, the best technique in the world probably won’t save them. See this post<\/a> for more on that subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How much time do you spend on reading the serve with your passers? If you’re like most coaches, you’re probably way more focused on technique.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[426,449,450],"class_list":["post-21047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-volleyball-passing","tag-volleyball-serve-receive","tag-volleyball-serve-reception"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047","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=21047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}