{"id":69692,"date":"2021-02-02T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=69692"},"modified":"2021-02-02T09:00:16","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T14:00:16","slug":"work-on-their-eyes-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/work-on-their-eyes-coaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on their eyes, coaches!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saw this in a coaching group:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Looking for some recommendations for drills or activities to do for reaction work and eye work.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Predictably, in the 6 comments responding there were two people suggesting &#8220;blind&#8221; exercises. One of them talks about tossing the ball from behind a blocker like an over-pass. The idea is they have to pick up the ball and react in a blocking fashion. Naturally, there was also the ball-thrown-from-behind-against-the-wall. As I&#8217;ve said, these sorts of <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/blind-drills-dont-help-reaction-time\/\">blind drills<\/a> have little impact on the kind of reaction time improvement we&#8217;re after.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then there was USA and pro libero Dustin Watten sharing a workout he did with his team in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Volleyball Speed and Quickness Training\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Y8frxp67bg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alas, Dustin includes a blind tennis ball exercise in here. As a plus, at least it looks like the rest of the stuff actually uses visual cues of some kind. Unfortunately, those cues don&#8217;t have much to do with volleyball situations, so it&#8217;s pretty disappointing. Even more so when you consider he&#8217;s apparently working with a strength coach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Look to the post I quoted at the beginning and notice how &#8220;eye work&#8221; is included. This is where so many coaches come up short when <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/how-do-i-make-my-players-quicker\/\">trying to make their players quicker<\/a>. They forget that <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/develop-better-player-reactions-from-the-start-not-the-finish\/\">reaction improvement starts with better reading<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Essentially, doing the sort of stuff Dustin shows in the video &#8211; aside from the ball thrown from behind him &#8211; is just a workout. I&#8217;m not saying these workouts can&#8217;t be useful. They can have their place, of course. We just can&#8217;t expect them to do a lot to improve reactions. As a useful response to the question noted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8230;since reaction time is an invariant across most people, it\u2019s actually a result of good eye work that allows players to seem to move faster.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that eye work needs to involve the cues players need to pick up on to better anticipate and react, which are not included in Dustin&#8217;s workout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even high level players don&#8217;t necessarily understand how little impact &#8220;quickness&#8221; training actually improves reactions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[400,401,437],"class_list":["post-69692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-volleyball-drill-design","tag-volleyball-drills","tag-volleyball-quickness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69692","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=69692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}