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Keep sets at least three feet off the net. Hitters are far less effective when they have to attack a ball that has been set tight to the net. Keep the sets at least three feet off the net so hitters can hit with range and use the block rather than being trapped. Better to set too far off than too close.
– Joe Trinsey, technical coordinator, U.S. Women’s National Team
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Beach: If you get blocked, stay positive rather than beating yourself up or let- ting it affect your confidence in your hitting abilities. Take what you can learn from the situation about how that blocker moves and see if you can recognize that situation next time and make a better hit. (It could be hitting it at a higher point over the net, slic- ing it by the blocker or tool- ing it off the block.) Whatever you do, don’t stop hitting!
– Lauren Fendrick, beach pro, 2014 AVP Best Blocker, former indoor AVCA All- American at UCLA.
Take a wide view of the court to avoid tunnel vision. What the eyes take in is critical information and impacts how you react on the court. Be a player who absorbs a lot of visual information. This will help you to move appropriately when blocking, attacking, passing or defending.
– Jim Stone, head coach, U.S. Girls’ Youth National Team 18.
Setters: Communicate with your hitters. In serve-receive, you need to let them know what they’re hitting, and you also need to make sure they know what the free-ball play is so communication errors don’t cost your team critical points. Remember, hitters, don’t put it all on the setter. If you don’t know what your free-ball or serve-receive set is, ask!
– Cary Wendell Wallin, former AVCA Player of the Year at Stanford, coach at 949 Athletics in Orange County, California
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Be ready to play. You are in complete control of getting yourself mentally and physically prepared for a match, whether it’s following a certain warmup routine, stretching, sprinting, visualizing, hitting a bunch of balls – whatever works for you. So often, I see players – especially young players – who are not ready to play. Maybe they’re screwing around with their friends, or whatever it might be, but they come to the court and they’re either mentally not there or physically not sweaty and ready. To play great volleyball, you need to be disciplined and take care of this. Be ready to compete.
–Todd Rogers, 2008 Olympic beach gold medalist, head beach coach at Cal Poly, former indoor AVCA All-American at UC Santa Barbara
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