"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.

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.

Taking your game to the next level is all about Gettin' Better. In this presentation, Bond Shymansky presents 40 tips that are designed to help you take your game where you want it to go! This presentation deals with two key parts of winning volleyball: Setting and defending. Being great at setting is about being great in your mind, heart and hands. Shymansky shows how proper hand positioning makes your movements tighter, more concise and efficient while allowing for touch and finesse on sets. Shymansky details a number of setting techniques, including the spin set, jump set, back & front one set, one-hand set and the peak-a-boo set. Other skills covered to develop a complete setter include footwork, targeting, attacking and rotating off and on the net. Defending is all about attitude and going after every ball on every play. Defense starts with good, tight body positioning. From a "palms up" position, the player can create two platforms to deflect the ball. Other teaching points include the drive, 3-meter target, one step extension, floor extension, hands defense, one arm j-stroke and the pancake. Range, confidence and ball control will be the result of these defensive tips. This DVD delivers two more cornerstones of the game of volleyball that will increase your skill and productivity on the floor.

89 minutes. 2006.