{"id":76883,"date":"2021-10-29T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=76883"},"modified":"2021-10-29T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-29T13:00:00","slug":"game-to-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/29\/game-to-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Game: To 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Synopsis: <\/strong>This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/small-sided-volleyball-games\/\">small-sided game<\/a> that focuses on controlled 3rd contact and can be a useful warm-up exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Age\/Skill Level:<\/strong> This is a game for intermediate to advanced players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Requirements:<\/strong> 2 teams of 3 or 4, one court, multiple balls<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Execution:<\/strong> Enter a ball and play out the rally. Each team earns a point for every free ball or a down ball they send to the other team&#8217;s Position 1 during that rally. When the rally ends, immediately enter a new one. First team to be at 10+ at the conclusion of a rally wins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Variations:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>To work in minimizing errors in this arena (since this is supposed to be working on control) you could do -1 for balls hit out of bounds, and -2 for balls hit into the net, or something along those lines.<\/li><li>You can initiate rallies via free ball or down ball<\/li><li>You can also initiate based on who &#8220;won&#8221; the last rally<\/li><li>The target zone for the free balls\/down balls can be whatever you want<\/li><li>Players can back row attack and\/or you can exclude free balls from point scoring<\/li><li>You can have the players play fixed positions, or have them rotate in some way (e.g. when they send the ball over, on a dead ball, etc.)<\/li><li>You can have a team&#8217;s score go back to zero for a ball hitting the floor with no effort<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Additional Comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>This game is something I developed, sort of on the fly, when I wasn&#8217;t happy one day with how the players were doing in <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/game-pro-trips-progressive-triples\/\">Pro Trips<\/a>.<\/li><li>If the players have sufficient skill (and focus) they can do this rather quickly in a cooperative fashion. In which case you&#8217;d probably want to progress them up to something like the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/drill-the-hard-drill\/\">Hard Drill<\/a>.<\/li><li>This is probably optimally played 3v3, or 4v4 with front row setters. I&#8217;ve done 3v4 as well. You could go up to 6v6, but that would reduce each player&#8217;s number of opportunities to try to put controlled balls to your selected target area. I would personally use a rotation to keep to the 3v3 or 4v4 structure.<\/li><li>If the players tend to make a lot of errors, or simply struggle to hit the target zone, you may need to adjust the scoring objective. Otherwise, it might be go longer than you want.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a small-sided game that focuses on controlled 3rd contact and can also be a useful warm-up exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[39,56,57,129,180,397,487],"class_list":["post-76883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-games","tag-advanced","tag-ball-control","tag-ball-handling","tag-cooperative","tag-intermediate","tag-volleyball-defense","tag-volleyball-warm-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883","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=76883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}