{"id":6364,"date":"2014-10-10T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2014-10-10T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T08:00:08","slug":"coaching-log-oct-9-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/10\/coaching-log-oct-9-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Coaching Log – Oct 9 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an entry in my volleyball coaching log for 2014-15<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Back to the big gym. This being the 2 week mark from the time a player told us she’d come out for the team in two weeks, there was the possibility of having a 16th in the mix. With no contact since, however, I wasn’t betting on it. As it turns out, she did show up, though I also had one player out sick.<\/p>\n

Of more immediate concern was the upcoming matches. All indications point to us playing our first BUCS match on Wednesday, with a tune-up South West league match before that on Sunday. Unfortunately, a couple of the probable starters for Wednesday (M2 and L\/O2) can’t make Sunday’s match. Also, one of my three starting setter candidates is unavailable for Wednesday for academic reasons. That means I need to focus on the other two setters in the short term, leaving me to use the to-be-missing one as a libero for Sunday’s match.<\/p>\n

Topping my training to-do list was Run & Serve<\/a>, which I wanted to do last week – just good serves, nothing more at this stage. As per usual, serve and serve receive to take advantage of the larger space were to be main features. I made this the first drill after warming-up. It took maybe 10 times through for everyone to get their serves in. Not horrible, but could have been better.<\/p>\n

From there I moved them to player winners<\/a> and eventually to winner’s 4s with fixed setters (setter for the winning team goes to\/stays on the winner’s side) in the form of my two prospective starters for next week. That then progressed to 6 v 6 in the form of the 2-in-2<\/a> game to work on serve receive offense, with regular play for the last 10 minutes (after I did a quick serve receive rotation walk-through to show them the different options for mixing things up).<\/p>\n

Observations: A) should have done the serve receive walk-through at the outset. B) I hope low intensity isn’t going to be the Thursday training pattern. C) I need to find some ways to motivate\/encourage talking among the B side players as they were virtually silent at times.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping Sunday’s SW match serves to start bringing things together and providing more focus through the lens of external competition.<\/p>\n

By the way, the trial player was decent, but not someone likely to challenge the starting group. As a result, I told her we just didn’t have room for another player (15 is already pushing it). She was not well pleased by that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In what was a disappointing session on the intensity and focus front after a pretty good one the night before, the focus was 6 v 6 play for match prep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[38,125,164,288,322],"class_list":["post-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2014-15-exeter-university","tag-6v6","tag-communication","tag-game-play","tag-serving","tag-team-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","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=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}