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Welcome to class!
In today’s class, we will be talking about the practice and performance of volleyball. Enjoy the class!
Practical (Practice and Performance of Volleyball)
Volleyball, game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in which the players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents’ playing area before it can be returned. To prevent this a player on the opposing team bats the ball up and toward a teammate, before it touches the court surface that teammate may then volley it back across the net or bat it to a third teammate who volleys it across the net. A team is allowed only three touches of the ball before it must be returned over the net.
- Give athletes as many repetitions as possible.
- Players need to perform those repetitions just like in the match, e.g. hitter needs to swing against the block and defence. When players practise hitting e.g. by coach tossing the ball or they do it without a block, the set up is quite different than in the match. This is very important!
- Players need to focus 100% when they are working on the skill. It helps players to put the skill in their muscle memory.
When players focus on the technique when repeating it, it will help them to start “seeing a moving picture” in their minds how to perform the drill (read more: cognitive learning). If they just keep repeating the skill without really having their thoughts in it, it is difficult to see this correct image in their minds.
Moreover, don’t let players lose their focus and get on the mindless repetition mode. If the drill is a longer one, keep changing it constantly, so, the players stay alert. Communicate actively and constantly remind players to re-focus.
However, things are not that simple. There are other variables, likeability to play under pressure among other things, which may affect the performance in the match. Players learn to compete and handle the pressure by putting them in pressure situations.
- Play more and more matches.
- Make players compete in practice. Using scoring and making players compete against each other in practice drills helps them to handle the pressure in the matches.
In our next class, we will be talking about Soccer. We hope you enjoyed the class.
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