{"id":21549,"date":"2019-04-17T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=21549"},"modified":"2019-04-17T09:00:35","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:00:35","slug":"using-video-for-better-blocker-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/17\/using-video-for-better-blocker-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Using video for better blocker training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are a lot of drills out there that work on blocking. A big problem I have with most of them is they severely lack the cues the blockers are supposed to use. I’m not talking about blockers working against a set of attackers. Instead, I’m thinking about drills with no live hitters (though maybe hitters on boxes).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s an example of one critiqued<\/a> by Alexis at Volleyball Drill Doctor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VolleyballWorld1\/videos\/1327429814074091\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As Alexis notes in his post, a way to make things much better is to introduce a setter. Just getting the read and reaction to the set makes things much closer to what the blocker has to do in a game and more game speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the first blocking drill I’ve ever seen that really brings the visual cues in without being in a full game context.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/marcelvolei\/videos\/305831266778962\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Notice how the blockers are using the video of actual game play for all phases of their blocking work. They use it to set their starting position, make their adjustments, and to finally make whatever blocking move is necessary. I think this is excellent use of video technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Would it be better to do this sort of thing in a real game situation? Of course, but that’s not always possible or reasonable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an example of how you can use video to dramatically improve blocking drills when training your blockers in real game situations isn’t an option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[331,359,361,362,435],"class_list":["post-21549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-drills","tag-volleyball-training-plan","tag-volleyball-block-training","tag-volleyball-blocker-training","tag-volleyball-blocking","tag-volleyball-practice-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21549","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=21549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21549\/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=21549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}