{"id":9331,"date":"2015-03-11T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=9331"},"modified":"2015-03-11T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T09:00:07","slug":"opportunities-in-training-on-a-lowered-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/11\/opportunities-in-training-on-a-lowered-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities in training on a lowered net"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I mentioned before how you can use the game of Newcomb<\/a> to work with inexperienced players. You can use it to teach court movement, positioning, and things like that in a volleyball-like, but slower speed situation. At the 2015 HP Coaches Clinic<\/a> they did something similar, but for a more advanced purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coaches lowered the net down to just about head height for the average player. The demo athletes then played a co-operative 6 v 6 game with no jumping. The third contact was set over. Basically, it was all the movements you normally see in volleyball. The players just did not jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this particular case the focus was blocker movement. The coaches watched the middle blockers for proper focus on their reads and their footwork. It was a way to give those middles lots of reps without burn out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking more broadly, this is an exercise that can serve a number of purposes. It could very easily be a warm-up. It includes lots of volleyball motion, just done at a lower intensity level. You can tick up the intensity if you make the 3rd contact a down-ball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, you can also get rid of the cooperative aspect and make it a competitive game. That speeds things up, demands more movement, and introduces more problem-solving elements. It makes reading more game-like, and gives you increased opportunities to focus players on specific aspects of their play while still is a lower intensity situation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Using a lowered net provides opportunities to work on things in a lower intensity situation and can also be a good warm-up exercise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[164,489],"class_list":["post-9331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-games","category-volleyball-practice-planning","tag-game-play","tag-warm-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331","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=9331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}