Use these simple serving techniques to increase your ace-to-error percentage.

Todd Dagenais presents a user-friendly guide to assist your players and team in dominating the serve game.

PRE-SERVE ROUTINE
Dagenais reveals a five-step progression for teaching a player to develop a serving routine--an essential for a player's serving success.

SERVE MECHANICS
See clear, precise and easy to understand explanation of serve mechanics. Learn to position the feet, toss arm and hitting arm for solid contact with every toss. Discover the best way to toss the ball for accuracy and ball movement. Dagenais finishes the skill segment with proper ball contact strategies, including proper follow through technique to maximize power and speed.

FIVE TYPES OF SERVES
Dagenais demonstrates five types of serves that progress in difficulty from the most basic to the most advanced. As the serves progress in difficulty, they increase in power and ball movement as well. These serves include underhand, floater, standing top spin, jump (and jump float) and jump top spin. Included are benchmarks players and coaches can use to determine the best time to move up to a more difficult type of serve.

IN-GAME STRATEGIES
Learn eight rules to take advantage of your team's serving strengths and expose your opponent's serve-receive weakness.

Dagenais closes with seven fun and competitive serving games that train a player to develop accuracy before adding speed and power.

This comprehensive instruction is sure to give your program a competitive edge in the serving game!

2010.

How many points have mental errors cost your team?

Jeff Meeker delivers 14 competitive games that will help your athletes "think" and play a better game. He shows how to structure this training to make it challenging, productive and game-like.

Coach Meeker demonstrates activities that will improve four key mental areas for your team:

• Communication: As a player, do you make your teammates better? Understand the importance talking and listening, learn to pull together in challenging situations and to problem solve as a group.
• Focus, Concentration and Cue Utilization: Are your players paying attention to the right things during a game? Sustain concentration, improve court vision and learn to assist a player in processing what they see.
• Risk Management Games: Are we playing smart? Focus areas in this segment include; pushing the envelope while playing smart, rewarding good errors, penalizing bad errors and maintaining focus.
• Competiveness and Cooperation: How do we combine these attributes to be our best? Be competitive, train harder, motivate your athletes to play better and cooperate with teammates to make the team better.

Implementing Meeker's brain game approach in training is sure to develop better play from your team, improve your player's volleyball IQ and create a positive and challenging climate in your gym!

2010.

Discover "little tricks" and ideas you can implement immediately to maximize your time in practice.

Todd Dagenais has developed an efficient practice system and philosophy based on his experiences as the assistant head coach at USC and as a member of the USA National Coaching staff.

Now Dagenais brings his unique practice ideas to DVD and shows you how to maximize contacts while saving large chunks of valuable practice time.

Daganais' will show you how to plan backward from your end-of-season goals and objectives to better implement daily and weekly objectives. Plus, you will learn quick and effective ways to provide on-court feedback and error correction without stopping your drills.

Dagenais guides you through a live practice that includes his team's pre-practice ritual and a 10-block practice session. These 10 blocks begin with fundamental, individual skill work and progress step-by-step through partner, group and competitive team play.

Throughout each block Dagenais narrates as his team demonstrates the skill set for each area of emphasis. Dagenais' ongoing instruction includes tips for learning to control the variables for each block of practice; allowing you to intertwine individual player development with team development.

Implementing Dagenais's practice plan model will assist you in protecting your one of your most precious commodities--training minutes!

2010.

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 10 of her best competitive practice drills, Iowa State Head Coach Christy Johnson-Lynch teaches not only the drills, but how they can be adjusted to meet your specific needs. You will learn the "how-to" and the "why" for each drill so you can easily modify them based on the ability of your athletes, the time of season, or your focus for the practice.

These team-based drills include a variety of game situations to teach your players essential volleyball skills and to play with focus and purpose on each point!

Improve your teams' competitiveness, communication, cooperation, and decision making, while implementing consequences for poor decisions and unfocused play and rewards for specific play from specific positions.

Lynch includes a list of things to think about as you prepare each of your drills for practice. These practice tips will improve the execution and effectiveness of any drill.

From pre-season to peaking for tournament play, Rapid-Fire Favorites is a comprehensive instructional tool that wraps skill development drills into competitive team play for season-long improvement. Add these flexible team drills to your practice this season!

62 minutes. 2010.