{"id":58767,"date":"2020-11-30T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=58767"},"modified":"2020-11-30T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T14:00:00","slug":"powerful-hitting-mechanics-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/30\/powerful-hitting-mechanics-example\/","title":{"rendered":"Powerful hitting mechanics example"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>If you&#8217;re ever looking for a good visual example of the mechanics of a powerful attack, here&#8217;s one you can use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.facebook.com\/manolo.concepcion\/videos\/10158546163200743\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, there may be a point here or there you could nitpick. And yes, she&#8217;s a 6&#8217;5&#8243; professional player. Those things miss the point entirely, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most frequent issue I see with attackers &#8211; especially on the female side of the sport &#8211; is the failure to open the torso and draw the elbow back (<a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/volleyball-arm-swing-understanding-coaching-it\/\">as opposed to high elbow<\/a>). This is why I wrote the post about <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/teach-them-how-to-throw\/\">the value of teaching kids how to throw<\/a>. We want the main source of attacking power to come from torso rotation. That way we&#8217;re basically just letting the force flow through the arm swing rather than trying to generate it from the shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You get your attackers to look something close to this when they hit and you&#8217;ll be doing pretty well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting I coached against this young lady when I was in Sweden during the 2015-16 season. She was, I think, 16 at the time. Even then she was a stud. Best player in the league. Her team set her 50% of the balls. Our most effective strategy was to create situations, particularly from serve, where it was difficult to set her. In other words, force someone else to beat us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an example of what powerful hitting mechanics look like, particularly with respect to generating power through the torso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14554,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[197,300,356,413],"class_list":["post-58767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-mechanics","tag-spiking","tag-volleyball-attacking","tag-volleyball-hitting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58767","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=58767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58767\/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=58767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}