Sunday, August 25, 2013

Individual Defense


The "Art of Coaching Volleyball" series has wonderful videos examining many aspects of the game.

In this video, the coaches give some great defensive tips...


  • "Fencing style" footwork. In basketball we call it "moving on the pass". 
  • Hand behind the ball
  • Sprawling technique
  • Rolling
  • Covering overhand balls (Rachel Johnson's play leading to an Athena Ziavras sectional winning spike comes to mind)
  • No substitute for repetitions
Melrose's program advances not because of evolutionary hitting, but because of integrated team defense, blocking making the back row's job manageable, back row defense with dramatically improved passing, allowing better sets giving hitters opportunity for successful attacks. 

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