An excellent instructional videotape for the youth volleyball coach! Full of drills to run in practice and includes John Dunning's format for a practice session; he also gives you many factors to consider when designing a practice. Coach Dunning has provided a large amount of information so you'll have plenty of activities to choose from to make your practices effective and fun. Includes drills for teaching ball control, passing, attacking, digging, serving and more.

1999. 60 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.

It's no mistake that year after year Nebraska's John Cook puts athletic, well-conditioned teams on the floor. One of the reasons is his High Performance Conditioning program. Each tape in this two tape series features more than 30 drills that when combined create a complete high performance workout for volleyball players. The workout features stretching, strength, agility, and plyometrics all performed with volleyball specific movements. This unique approach allows coaches to improve volleyball skills while conditioning their athletes, improve jumping ability, and removing imbalances in volleyball players that come from repetitive motion skills. The program can be used as a complete off-season program or it can be broken down and incorporated into practices to aid in conditioning, explosiveness, and injury prevention.

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.