{"id":8595,"date":"2015-02-23T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T15:00:04","slug":"increasing-player-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/02\/23\/increasing-player-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing player reads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A while back I wrote about going beyond maximizing player contacts<\/a> and the idea of read-plan-execute (RPE). In brief, RPE is what players do any time they play the ball. They read the contact before them, plan a solution<\/a>, and execute the required skill. An issue with block training (simple reps) is it reduces the read requirement, sometimes all the way to essentially zero. That is why game-like drills are strongly preferred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Going game-like makes sure we don’t lose the reading aspect of RPE, but what can we do to maximize our read opportunities? At the HP Coaches Clinic<\/a> in 2015, Julio Velasco talked about watching as training. I’ve talked about this from a coaching perspective (see Tip for Coaching Volleyball: Watch more volleyball!<\/a>), but the same applies to players. The more they see, the better they will be able to read the game. Karch Kiraly actually took that a little further. He in showed how players could do simulated reps when waiting their turn in line, which connects seeing and doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can we increase reads in game play, though?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The answer is kind of simple. As John Kessell observed during one breakfast discussion at the clinic, you can have the players play 2-touch rather than 3-touch games. All else equal, it increases the over-the-net reads by 50%. There are also some other advantages to mixing 2-touch in as well, as I wrote about a while back in Using 2-touch games to challenge your players<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course there are trade-offs. You just need to strike a balance with your training focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A key element to developing good volleyball players is to given them lots of opportunities to read the ball. Here are some thoughts to that end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,435],"class_list":["post-8595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-volleyball-training-plan","tag-volleyball-practice-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595","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=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}