A few issues have come up on social media lately that compelled me to begin considering. Pressured me to begin serious about how it’s that individuals essentially misunderstand some ideas in volleyball and training.
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The primary was this instagram reel promoted as a drill to enhance studying. It’s clearly not a studying drill, however why is it not apparent to others.
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What’s studying? Studying is the commentary and processing of sport cues. Good commentary and processing of sport cues results in selecting optimum sport outcomes (choice making) and ultimately executing them within the service of the workforce.
So let’s take a second to evaluate the above drill. Which sport cues is the blocker observing? I’ll wait so that you can watch once more. The right reply is zero. There isn’t a reception, no setter, no set, no assault. There’s zero sport data contained in that drill. The blocker should make a selection, sure, however not based mostly on something that may occur in a sport.
That isn’t to say the drill doesn’t have a spot in coaching, or that it doesn’t have a optimistic impact on some parts of efficiency. It can not nevertheless be mentioned that a kind of optimistic results is in enhancing studying expertise.
On an analogous word, a submit on a training website, I don’t bear in mind which, requested for recommendation on enhancing some ingredient of timing in assault. The proferred recommendation included issues resembling tape and different objects on the ground, none of which had any relationship to timing. So the place does the recommendation come from?
What’s timing? With apologies to Johan Cruyff, good timing is being in the best place on the proper time. So what precisely is that place and time? That may be a nice query. As unsatisfying as it might be, the reply to that query is, it relies upon. It is dependent upon the motion of the ball and the gamers on the courtroom. Each scenario is exclusive.
So what occurs after we put issues on the ground? The very first thing we do is look down, ie not on the ball. So proper there we all know that any such drill can’t be coaching timing. We will create a drill that may seem like it approximates timing underneath a selected set of circumstances however as soon as actuality intrudes we can’t be stunned that the connection between participant and ball not holds.
That isn’t to say the drill doesn’t have a spot in coaching, or that it doesn’t have a optimistic impact on some parts of efficiency. It can not nevertheless be mentioned that a kind of optimistic results is improved timing.
Sadly, it doesn’t matter how inventive a coach is likely to be, the one method to enhance studying and timing expertise is to do issues that very carefully roughly a sport. The coach may simplify conditions to show commentary expertise and scale back doable choices, or present suggestions on eye work (really they’ve to try this anyway), and even simplify method (do you actually need a 4 step method?) however in the long run the gamers really must do actual reps. And, sure, that takes time. Typically a very long time, however in some issues there aren’t any shortcuts.
