Supermans<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nThe jumps were for distance rather than speed. The focus was on stable, soft (quiet) landings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Block jumps<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Next up was some blocking footwork. I had them do a progression of simple single shuffle blocks to double-shuffle blocks, then step-cross blocks. The main objective for me was to see where they were at in their technique. I wanted a sense of future areas for focused attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You will probably not be surprised to hear the guys were pretty tired by this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Block to transition<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Extending on the blocking, the next thing I wanted to see was their transition footwork coming down from the block. First I had them do a minimal block jump, then transition off to prepare to attack. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then we introduced a ball. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In two groups of two, I had them block, transition, then attack a toss from one of my assistants. They were instructed to make controlled swings for the corners. We did this both in Position 2 and 4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Defense to transition<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Finally, some ball-handling!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had them do a 2 vs 2 cooperative exercise where one player set and one was in Position 4 (later Position 2). The objective was to get to a sustained rally of 10 time where there was a successful dig, set, controlled attack to the player on the other side defending in 4. I had the players flip positions on their side after a given time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The thing I was mostly looking for here was their transitions after digging, but also wanted to see what their ball-control looked like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Serving<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
I was going to lose one of the players shortly by this point, so I had them do some serving. Initially, I just let them free serve. After a couple minutes, though, I had them work on deep serves to Zones 1 and 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reception<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Having now lost one, I moved the guys one to a 3-person reception exercise. Just a simple serve & pass with my two assistants serving. Again, the main idea for me was to do a bit of evaluation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3 vs 0 pepper<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
I wrapped things up with a final exercise to add a bit more conditioning and to have them do a some more ball control. Since there was only the three, I had them do a 3 vs 0 pepper. This is where the players play both sides of the net. Once a player touches the ball, they switch to the other side, with the third contact going over the net to one of the now-waiting teammates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Note<\/h6>\n\n\n\n
Overall, I probably did a little more jumping than I’d intended. There was obviously a lot of it in the early part of the session with activation stuff. Then they has transition attacking swings. There was also a bit more when they were serving. Most of those jumps weren’t the higher intensity variety, though, so I’m OK with how it went. And we didn’t have a lot of high intensity arm swings either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though I had a 2-hour block, I think the session only went about 80 minutes. Didn’t make sense to push things beyond that at this early point and will so few bodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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