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.

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.

Three DVD series includes:

• Practice Planning & Drills for Teaching Skills, 60 minutes.
• New Approaches for Better Volleyball, 60 minutes.
• Simplified Playing Systems, 42 minutes.

Coaches, honing you and your staff's hitting skills for coach initiated drills is imperative to running efficient practices. In this instructional volleyball video, you will learn technically sound and healthy hitting skills and learn how to evaluate and react appropriately to a player's skill level to better facilitate development in each drill. In part one, Gonzalez breaks down the anatomy of a healthy arm swing and his system of presenting the ball to his players. Gonzales then follows with four additional skill set areas including knee slide and barrel roll, side spin toss, underspin and topspin series, and hitting. In each area, Gonzalez shares how to run the drill with proper presentation, how to evaluate the skill set of each player and then follow with another round of the drill. Gonzalez's training system will assist you in running coach initiated drills safely and efficiently while meeting the skill development needs of each individual on your team. This is a must-see for everyone on your staff.

2009.

In this information packed volleyball DVD, Coach Moore shares with you a step-by-step run, jump and hit progressive guide to attacking.

Moore begins with a technical breakdown of the footwork for the four-, three- and two-step approaches. Moore shares insight into what to look for from each player through individual drills before moving into full team participation drills for working on the approach.

Moving from footwork, Moore shares the technical aspects of the jump followed by a drill progression that adds a swing and touch to the jump. Moore concludes his jumping instruction by adding a hitting drill that shows you how to evaluate the proper approach for the hit.

Oregon Strength Coach Jeremy Pick shares a quick, but effective, 7-exercise dynamic warm-up for the arm swing that will help your players train for safer hitting. Moore demonstrates the technical aspects for the throw and hit followed by drill progressions that include throwing tennis balls before moving to throwing drills with the volleyball. Moore puts the run, jump and hit together with a series of 10 multi-contact attacking drills, which include transition and serve receive routes.

This guide to attacking is certain to assist you in improving your players' understanding and execution of this crucial skill.

43 minutes. 2009