After a week off, we had a pretty solid session last night. After letting the girls screw around for a bit, which I find to be very useful at this point in the team building process, we played some random queens games including toss game, two on two with only 2 touches allowed per side, and regular two on two. These types of games are great for warm up and provide lost of random training becasue of the lack of structure. For a more detailed explanation of random training versus structured training check out the two articles that I wrote for prepvolleyball.com. I’ve posted both articles as blog posts and links can be found in under my bio in the TR Staff page.
After playing, we decided to do some hitter training. We believ very strongly that all players no matter what their position should be trained in all skills, especially at this age. First off we did some hurdle hitting drills in which the hitter takes the first step of the approach to a low hurdle then hops over the low hurdle landing into their second and third step. This type of hitting reinforces the details of the approach technique that transfer forward momentum into upward momentum. After that we added a series of target dots on the floor that outline specific areas of the court. We had the girls hit using different hip turn and hand to ball techniques to direct the ball to the specifc areas.
After hitting we had a little time at the end to play some four on four. I forgot who won, but everyone seemed to be having fun! Including guest coach Hailey Marvin who volunteered her time while home on break to help us out. Thanks Hailey!
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