Blocking serves multiple functions
- Block-kills score points
- Blocking can intimidate hitters (changes the attack)
- Blocking coordinates defense to handle slowed spikes
- Blocking forces some attack errors
Exceptional blockers bring attitude to the fight.
The CARE acronym works
- Concentrate
- Anticipate (read the setter, predict the attack)
- React (don't 'ball watch', urgent footwork to get to the spot)
- Execute (timing, penetrate the net, stiff block)
Improve
- Better reading of plays (study video)
- "Get there"
- Timing is practice (some is 'natural')
- Work on your athleticism (a few inches makes a differences)
Examples (Rachel Johnson):
Hang time (stay with the play):
One block doesn't end the play.
Lagniappe. Show strength.
Tom Coughlin said, "You never want an opponent to see you in anything, but strength."
— Coach AJ 🎯 Mental Fitness (@coachajkings) May 29, 2026
"You don't want bad language. You don't want that as a stamp of who you are."
Your body language speaks before you do.
Your presence, your tone, your energy - everything speaks. pic.twitter.com/kXBOuNbjD3
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