Get more consistency from your setter and improve your team's success.

In this 2009 AVCA Convention presentation, Iowa State Head Coach Christy Johnson-Lynch shares the tips and strategies that have placed the Cyclones at the top of the nation in assists per set year after year.

This six-part presentation features:

• Individual Setter Drills - Use these drills to gain more consistent sets and improve court vision.
• Game Situations - Learn drills to train game situations such as starting at the net and getting to the ball, releasing from defense, releasing from side out, and block and find the ball.
• Setting the Middle Attack - If your team does not have the luxury of outside hitters with a big swing, the middle attack becomes invaluable. Learn to properly train your setter to effectively set the middle.
• Setter Training 6-on-6 Drills - See drills to keep your middles and right side involved in the attack. Each drill is designed to reward sets to the desired area of attack.
• Setting Hittable Balls - Get detailed strategies for helping the setter to determine when to set the middle or set elsewhere.
• Q & A - Johnson-Lynch answers questions with on-court answers of common setting issues that coaches encounter.

This presentation will allow you to train setter technique and gain the decision making skill set for optimizing team success!

56 minutes. 2010.

"In every rotation, expose your best serve receivers!"

Bill Neville builds this entire 2009 AVCA convention presentation around this law and shares with you innumerable ways to expose your serve receive strengths and hide weaknesses.

In the first segment of this presentation, Coach Neville sets his offense and takes you through a breakdown of six rotations. With each rotation, Neville physically shows how to set up serve receive to get the first ball to the best passer. While exposing the best passer, Neville shows how to hide the setter as well as hiding weaker passers.

Neville feels that getting a quality hit on the first pass is imperative to setting up your offense. He specifically points out what are typically the two potentially weakest rotations and presents strategies for optimizing serve receive success when in these challenging rotations.

A serve receive game of 4v2 throughout various rotations to drill serve receive is played, and with each point, Neville offers insight into the "what happened and why it happened" for each result. He then breaks down a server's sequence checklist to add more focus and purpose to each and every serve.

Neville presents a sequence for the serve receive team designed to create consistency in every serve reception. Neville models getting your team to communicate throughout the sequence.

This presentation offers specific examples of how to best set up formations that will return the highest percentage for first pass success.

44 minutes. 2010.

How often do you have the opportunity to learn hitting techniques from an Olympic Gold Medalist? Now's your chance! Legendary coach Marv Dunphy -- coach of the 1988 USA Men's Vollebyall Gold Medal Team -- shows you effective methods for improving your team's hitting.

Coach Dunphy begins with his 4-step attacking footwork cadence and teaching tips for working with the goofy foot attacker. Dunphy shows how to alleviate many of the technical difficulties with hitting by sharing tips to improve approach footwork and attack angles. These modifications will allow your players to see the full court, frame the ball and see what the block is doing.

Switching from footwork drills to arm drills, Dunphy concentrates on proper arm movement. He details specific arm sequences (forward and back, together and up), three arm segments for a technically sound contact and information for arm-healthy hitting. You will see common mistakes with the arm movement and learn what to look for and how to correct errant arm movements.

Dunphy discusses rules for shot selection and includes strategies for hitting high, into the hands of the potential block and not into the arms. He offers strategies for specific hitting situations from various locations on the court with varying challenges from the set. Dunphy demonstrates drills to train high hitting followed by rally games for attacking situations. Throughout these games, Dunphy offers constant instruction and insights to all aspects of hitting.

Coach Dunphy is one of the sports finest coaches and technicians making this a must have DVD for your volleyball coaching library!

54 minutes. 2010.

Learn simple ways to improve your transition game and get more productive swings.

In this 2009 AVCA Convention presentation, Craig Skinner provides strategies, games and drills to improve your transition game.

Learn how to handle the down ball, free ball and challenging situations like balls coming off the block, balls out of the net and what to do when your setter digs.

Discover key strategies for transition footwork, movement patterns for middles and the most common transition positioning mistakes and how to correct them.

Are your practices limited by the number of players on your team? This DVD highlights box drills for training transition. Learn how to work transition from several common game-like scenarios and how to react with defensive sets.

Put it all together with Skinner's 6-on-6 drills for training effective transition.

Implement Skinner's strategies and drills and start getting those extra points you've been missing.

53 minutes. 2010.

After 1,000 career wins, there is no question that Peggy Martin knows what it takes to be successful.

In this 2009 AVCA Convention presentation, Coach Martin shares her favorite drills to start and end practice, as well as drills that are great for pre-match.

In the Start of Practice Drills segment, Martin begins with three warm-up specific drills. Within these three drills are more than 10 progressions that enable the coach to implement a progressive skill set during warm up. This gives your players more time to work on their skills while simultaneously warming up.

The Pre-Match Drills feature a four-drill progression Martin refers to as "necessary partner drills." These drills are designed to accomplish warm-up and skill rehearsal on a half court prior to a match.

Martin's End of Practice Drills include scored drills that are highly competitive and incorporate skill specifics with teamwork, communication and competitiveness.

For coaches who practice in gyms with limited space, Martin offers tips for maximizing available space. She also shows how drills can be modified to fit the ability level of your team.

2010. 52 minutes

Teach your libero to be more than "just a passer."

In this 2009 AVCA Convention presentation, legendary coach Cecile Reynaud breaks down the critical elements for the libero with active on-court drills and competitive play.

Coach Reynaud covers five critical elements for better libero play:

• A six-point libero job qualification list.
• Guiding principles for the libero.
• Training keys for developing the libero.
• Five essential areas for successful passing.
• 11 key points for becoming a defensive specialist.

Reynaud does a masterful job of intertwining passing and defensive drills to validate each critical element. She manipulates the drills to assure multiple first-contact touches for the libero.

This information-packed presentation will give you invaluable information to consider for selecting, developing and utilizing the libero to help your team be successful.

2010. 60 minutes

Jenny McDowell believes that ball control gets you to the big match, but outside hitting wins you the big match.

In this passionate six-part presentation from the 2009 AVCA Convention, Coach McDowell shares her philosophy, training methods and drills for creating the type of error-free outside hitting that will help win you the big match.

McDowell begins with a brief discussion to the mental aspect of outside hitting. She moves into the training segment with a brief warm-up for hitting she describes as "pepper with discipline."

The bulk of McDowell's competitive drills are broken down into four segments:

• Court Positioning: McDowell leads her demonstrators through outside hitting drills from varying court positions and out of system attacking.
• Explosive Approaches: McDowell presents drills to reinforce stronger approaches to give your outside hitters more options and the most control.
• Transitioning and Maintaining Vision: This segment features a four-drill progression that progresses from simple to complex.
• Competition with Practice: McDowell shares five additional competitive training games with scoring systems designed to reward error free hitting. McDowell shares how to modify the scoring to best fit the needs of your team.

Using these drills, McDowell's squad finished fifth in the nation in 2009 in hitting percentage (27.5%). Now you can train your outside hitters to hit for a higher percentage.

2010. 47 minutes

Jill Stephens,
Florida Southern Head Coach,

Christyn May,
University of Minnesota Duluth Assistant Coach.

Stop racking your brain for fun activities to do at your summer volleyball camp!

In this unique presentation from the 2009 AVCA convention, you will learn 10 fun, exciting, energy filled activities you can easily use to ramp up camp fun while at the same time developing essential skills.

Among the activities that coaches Shires, Stephens and May demonstrate include:

• a challenging warm-up activity for throwing, jumping and strength development;
• a cooperative partner challenge that "warms-up the brain;"
• a fun, trust building activity that requires communication and cooperation to win;
• a toss-catch progression game that progresses in difficulty through five levels that end with progressive volleying.

Several of the games can accommodate very large numbers of players at the same time, while other games have multiple variations that can be implemented.

The games and drills presented are not only great for summer camp activities, they are appropriate for in season fun, team building, competitiveness and skill development.

This DVD presents a great balance of skill development, teamwork, cooperation, communication, and trust, all under the umbrella of FUN!

2010. 55 Minutes.

Neil Mason feels that the jump serve offers the best opportunity to teach aggressive play and to help a player develop court and game sense. Coach Mason begins this AVCA on-court convention DVD with drills for how to incorporate jump serving into a practice warm-up activity. He then demonstrates a technical progression for teaching and coaching the jump serve. Mason includes keys for teaching the toss, footwork and arm movement, as well as strategies for how to generate speed and power into the skill. Adding invaluable substance to the technical aspects, Mason shares ongoing tips for coaching the skill and how to hold players accountable for proper technique. Mason's instruction includes a high velocity jump serve and a jump float serve, with differing contact techniques for a variety of ball rotations. He also shows a series of serving strategies for game considerations and common fallacies when it comes to jump serving. Mason's jump serve DVD is perfect for players at any level who want serving reps with a purpose.

56 minutes. 2009.

Are you looking for creative ways to increase touches, create competitiveness, and increase athleticism and fitness levels? Stop running in circles! Play games to warm up! In this creative AVCA convention on-court presentation, legendary coaches Bill Neville and Bill Hamiter present you with a variety of activities and games that incorporate all of these essential elements of successful volleyball into your warm-up. Neville and Hamiter present more than 10 different activities, with each possessing a variety of progressions that you can adjust to create a desired outcome. Their instruction includes mixing up drill combinations, varying the amount of ball touches and changing the skills you want to incorporate into your practice. The goal throughout this presentation is to stimulate your imagination into wrapping these drills and games around the needs of your team. The desired outcome of this skill-based warm-up is to blur the line between the end of your warm-up and the beginning of practice. Use your imagination and make warm-ups a more valuable part of your practice.

58 minutes. 2009

As a 4x state championship high school coach and multi-time Junior College Coach of the Year, Trish Knight has experienced success at every level she has coached. In this on-court AVCA convention presentation, Coach Knight shares a series of skill and drill progressions designed to improve overall passing skills, with the ultimate goal of mastering deep receive passes. Knight begins with passing basics featuring a review of proper passing mechanics including platform and body positioning, and a three-drill progression to train stationary and movement pattern passing. Knight moves to her 5-phase progression for lunge passing, which includes lunge basics, low lunge passing, deep ball passing and deep and short passing combinations. This series of progressions offers a clear idea of how to work your players from the basics through more advanced passing. The key to successful skill development in passing is the development of the toss. Throughout her presentation, Knight shares instruction on how to perfect the toss to assist in more rapid passing development. Knight offers you creative ways to improve the range of your passer.

49 minutes 2009.

Suzie Fritz feels that it is imperative to breakdown your stats to help you understand and determine priority areas in which to dedicate practice time. In this on-court AVCA convention DVD, Coach Fritz provides drills and strategies that will assist you in creating game-like situations for coaching successful transition. Fritz begins with a statistical breakdown for her season and how it relates to transition. She incorporates footwork development instruction beginning with a right front block move utilizing a "turn, spin, and hop" movement with a 3-step back to the ball approach. Fritz demonstrates this movement with a quick exchange drill that uses both the right front block and left front block moves. Fritz moves into left side transition and shares strategies and drills that emphasize out of system balls. An excellent volleyball DVD from one of the top college coaches in the nation.

44 minutes. 2009.

Coach Lee Maes begins his on-court AVCA convention presentation with a three-phase warm-up that includes simple band work for shoulder strengthening, a series of unique seated and standing swing drills stressing a fast arm, and ball throws to develop swing technique. Maes teaches the basics of the approach by drilling a 2-step approach. His approach features a two foot landing, a focus on jumping high, and three arm swing techniques: high snap, full rotation, and cross body. In his slide approach sequence, Maes drills tight, intermediate and wide slides. His progression begins with a ball "carry and throw" before adding a setter. His drills increase in foot speed during the approach and vary in court positions. Maes' wide variety of ball control drills features out of system hitting, counter attacking with middles, overloading a block and more. With over 25 drills and great teaching from Maes, this program will increase your athletes' speed and efficiency in attacking,

56 minutes. 2009.

In this on-court presentation at the AVCA Convention, Cathy Noth shares a wealth of information that will assist you in developing a "complete" setter. Coach Noth begins with a positional skill set for the setter that includes proper hand positioning, body posture and court positioning. Noth moves into max jump drills that force the setter into varying court positions to reinforce proper positioning. Noth's footwork drills, transition drills and multiple ball contact drills are easy to understand and easy to implement. Noth is a firm believer in the importance of core body strength for successful setting and shares how she builds core training into a practice by showing a wide variety of core training exercises. Noth offers her invaluable coaching expertise on such topics as what to do when a drill breaks down, how to build player accountability in all areas of instruction and how to develop team communication and trust - all critical elements of developing consistency in your setter. A fantastic setting DVD.

64 minutes 2009.

Got space issues? Here are some great solutions! Former Georgia Tech All-American and current Kentucky assistant Lauren Sauer takes you on a high-energy chase through a series of half court drills in her on-court presentation from the 2008 AVCA Convention. Coach Sauer shows how to get between 300 and 500 reps per practice with limited time and space that many coaches face. Learn a quick, high rep warm-up that will maximize your practice time. Sauer's ball and partner drills will challenge your players - not only for high reps but skill development in all areas of the game. Sauer shares ideas for station drills utilizing all areas of the half court: walls, the net and the floor. Learn a series of blocking drills, 4-corner drills and dig-set drills that will keep you players moving. Sauer's presentation will show you that your training is limited only by your imagination, not by your lack of space.

40 Minutes. 2009.

Coach Beth Launiere's philosophy is "to learn the game, you must play the game." This philosophy resonates throughout her presentation. Launiere shares her views on motor learning including demonstrations that focus on key words to simplify the skill, performing the whole skill, and giving feedback by attending to one key at a time. She carries this teaching methodology into her series of drills, showing you how to incorporate game like training into your practice, along with how to manipulate a drill to meet the need areas of your team. Launiere shares ideas of how to creatively incorporate winning into every aspect of training.

58 minutes. 2009.

Did you know that volleyball players spend over 95% of their time away from the ball? This makes footwork and court awareness paramount for success! As a player, Danalee Bragado-Corso developed her own unique system for footwork training. In this sand court presentation from the 2008 AVCA convention Bragado-Corso shares this training system along with invaluable strategies for the sand game. Her footwork instruction focuses on patterns for defending a variety of shots including cut shot, deep angle shot, high line shot and short over shot, along with drills to reinforce proper footwork positioning. Bragado-Corso shows a simple method for dividing the court into strategic defensive positions. Her block call signal strategies along with verbal communication strategies are imperative in the sand game. Bragado-Corso's teaching style is simple and very effective with exceptional verbal cues for each movement.

53 minutes 2009.

Are you limiting the strengths of your athletes? Does your offense take advantage of your player's strengths? Coach Jeff Carroll feels that the Triangle Offense has been the single most valuable tool in his program's success. In this on-court AVCA convention presentation, Carroll shares with you what the triangle offense is, what it does, and how it can help you. Carroll likes the triangle because of the high number of one-on-one situations that it creates-often to the disadvantage of your opponent. Carroll takes you through all six rotations with precise, easy-to-follow instructions, strategies and nuances for each set. For each rotation, he provides a detailed walk-through followed by live ball demonstrations. The triangle offense will allow you to be tactically creative, allow your players to do what they do best and create excitement in your program!

57 Minutes 2009.

Coach Steve Aird, capitalizing on his experience at Penn State, takes you on a fast ride through a series of drills and concepts that are designed to maximize the productivity of your team, every minute of every practice. Beginning with practice planning, Aird leads you through an example of how to run your players through a volleyball-specific warm-up that will keep your athletes engaged in the practice. Aird shares ideas to utilize the early season to establish drills so that they become more time efficient as the season progresses. As your players gets warmed up, and the practice progresses, Aird believes that the coaching and teaching need to intensify. He demonstrates drills and activities that will allow your players to think and read and develop game sense in a practice setting. Aird includes four important team skills that guide his practices and follows with a 5-on-5 no middle drill series that shows how to design play that best serves the needs of your team. This presentation shares drill ideas and coaching methodology so that you, too, can maximize practice repetitions.

58 Minutes 2009.

After 1,000 career wins, there is no question that Peggy Martin knows what it takes to be successful.

In this 2009 AVCA Convention presentation, Coach Martin shares her favorite drills to start and end practice, as well as drills that are great for pre-match.

In the Start of Practice Drills segment, Martin begins with three warm-up specific drills. Within these three drills are more than 10 progressions that enable the coach to implement a progressive skill set during warm up. This gives your players more time to work on their skills while simultaneously warming up.

The Pre-Match Drills feature a four-drill progression Martin refers to as "necessary partner drills." These drills are designed to accomplish warm-up and skill rehearsal on a half court prior to a match.

Martin's End of Practice Drills include scored drills that are highly competitive and incorporate skill specifics with teamwork, communication and competitiveness.

For coaches who practice in gyms with limited space, Martin offers tips for maximizing available space. She also shows how drills can be modified to fit the ability level of your team.

2010. 52 minutes

Coach Shaw begins by teaching the ready position with proper posture, foot and hand positioning leading to a "drop, jump, and land on balance" sequence. To simulate proper blocking skill technique at the apex of the jump, Shaw places his demonstrator on a jumping box and teaches the nuances of "sealing the top of the net." With the stationary body position basics in place, Shaw adds footwork and takes you through a drill progression without the use of the ball progressing through Side Step, Shuffle Step and Crossover Step. Throughout the entire progression, Shaw demonstrates his preferred strategies sharing his philosophies and reasoning behind each of the skills. Shaw then incorporates live ball drills for each of the four blocking maneuvers. In Part 2, Individual Defensive Technique, Shaw replicates his instructional methodologies from Part I beginning with basic body position instruction for digging and then progresses to forward, backward, and lateral movement. He then shares his favorite implementation techniques: "Pepper," with 2, 3, and 4 person drills.

40 minutes. 2003.

Coach Shaw begins this two-part video with a review and demonstration of the basic fundamentals and techniques of setting. Finger and hand position specifics are first explained followed by hand position for ball contact with a single motion follow through. Shaw then teaches, demonstrates, and drills front sets, back sets, and jump sets and also offers strategies for deceptive setting. In Part 2:Spiking, Shaw begins with body position and upper body action emphasizing proper body rotation, "bow and arrow " ball striking position and contact with the entire hand, and a wrist snap follow through. He then teaches the 3 step approach and shares toss drills that combine footwork and spiking. Shaw utilizes a box to demonstrate teaching the spike from the peak of a jump in a high position and shares strategies for quick attack. Shaw concludes by sharing specific drills for target accuracy.

30 minutes. 2003.

In this information-packed video, Coach Shaw teaches, demonstrates, and drills the basic fundamental skill of serving and passing. Shaw teaches the specific skills in this video in an easy to understand sequence: technique explanation, technique demonstration, and creative and active drill demonstration. In Part 1: Serves, Shaw first teaches the Floater Serve. Shaw teaches positioning of the feet, ball placement (toss), contact, and follow through techniques for a solid on-target serve. Next, Shaw teaches the Jump/Spin Serve, again sequencing from the proper foot position, approach, contact, toss or ball placement, and follow-through to target, along with strategies to ensure striking the ball as close to the net as possible and at it's highest point. Part 1 is concluded with Shaw teaching the Jump/Floater Serve, combining the skills from the floater and the jump serve that offer players a different angle on their serve. In Part 2: Passing, Shaw begins with Forearm Passing beginning with proper setting of the base, followed by hand position for a passing platform, contact and follow through techniques. Shaw concludes Part 2 by teaching the Overhand Pass

37 minutes. 2003.

Debbie Brown demonstrates more than 15 drills to help improve your blockers' hand technique, footwork, one-on-one blocking skills, and their ability to read the setter. Drills work both the outside block and the middle block and front sets and back sets. Throughout the video, Coach Brown discusses what a coach should look for during the drills and describes proper technique for blocking.

29 minutes. 2001.

Jim Stone's objective in this video is to create accurate, consistent setters. Coach Stone includes more than 25 drills to train hand placement, footwork patterns along the net and off the net, jump setting, back setting, tipping, and hitting out of the net. All of these drills can be run using four or less people. A great tool to teach this most important position.

51 minutes. 2001.

More than 25 drills to get your athletes as many touches as possible in practice! Russ Rose quickly covers the basics of defense and passing and then gets right into the drill work. These drills include partner drills, team drills, and competitive drills. Coach Rose includes everything from warm-up drills to Rose's famous "Pit" drill for training athletes to go for every ball!

44 minutes. 2001.

Using game footage, Mike Hebert illustrates the six most common "transition moments" in volleyball. These transition moments include: Defense to offense, defensive base to defensive read, serve reception to attack, serve to defensive base, coverage to attack, and chaos to order. Next Coach Hebert demonstrates drills to teach your players how to react in each of these situations, where to position themselves on the court, and what footwork you want them to use to get to their positions.

39 minutes. 2001.

Russ Rose's collection of unique drills will spark your team's competitive fire! Great drills for stressing the importance of teamwork and letting your team play the game of volleyball versus working on individual skills. Each drill uses the "Wash Scoring System:" teams play a series of two-ball rallies and must win both balls to score a point, otherwise, it's a wash and no points are scored. This allows you to handicap the scoring of the games and control how the balls are delivered into play when you have a great deal of talent on one side of the net and lesser talent on the other side. The drills also allow you to separate your starters and force them to compete against each other.

40 minutes. 2001.

Coach Jim Moore demonstrates drills and games for six areas of volleyball: serving, passing, setting, attacking, blocking, and defense. Moore begins with a quick review of the proper techniques for each of these areas as well as key words and phrases you can use to instill these skills in your athletes. Next he shows three drills or competitive games for each area that you can use with your team to train these skills. A great general purpose video.

40 minutes. 2001.

Tom Keating covers six areas of attacking and drills to better your athletes in each areas. The six areas include: Hitting techniques, free ball transition attack, side out attack, block transition attack, dig transition attack, and overpass attack. Each set of drills progresses from simple to complex incorporating individual movement patterns and ultimately full-blown team drills.

53 minutes. 2001.

John Dunning shows you how to raise the skill level of your athletes through the use of "single item focus training", that is, training your athletes by focussing on one skill per drill. These team drills train passing, attacking, serving, blocking and transition game. By adjusting the difficulty of the drill, you can build confidence in your athletes by catering to their ability level. The drills on this video range from simple to complex so you can build the appropriate progression for your team.

45 minutes. 2001.

Ball control plays an important role in volleyball. John Dunning demonstrates drills that can be used in a team setting or used by athletes on their own. He includes drills for general ball control, passing, setting, attacking, serving, digging, and "desperation plays" such as getting the third hit over the net, playing the ball off the net, and playing the ball near the scorer's table, to name a few. A great video to help keep your practices fun and interesting.

49 minutes. 2001.