2008 AVCA Instructional Series

with Neil Mason,
TCA Founder/California Club Director/Coach;
US Olympic Committee Developmental Coach of the Year in 2006

Neil Mason feels that the jump serve offers the best opportunity to teach aggressive play and to help a player develop court and game sense. Coach Mason begins this AVCA on-court convention DVD with drills for how to incorporate jump serving into a practice warm-up activity. He then demonstrates a technical progression for teaching and coaching the jump serve. Mason includes keys for teaching the toss, footwork and arm movement, as well as strategies for how to generate speed and power into the skill. Adding invaluable substance to the technical aspects, Mason shares ongoing tips for coaching the skill and how to hold players accountable for proper technique. Mason's instruction includes a high velocity jump serve and a jump float serve, with differing contact techniques for a variety of ball rotations. He also shows a series of serving strategies for game considerations and common fallacies when it comes to jump serving. Mason's jump serve DVD is perfect for players at any level who want serving reps with a purpose.

56 minutes. 2009.

with Bill Neville,
U.S. Volleyball Association National Commissioner of Coaching Education, 3X Olympic Men's Coach
and Bill Hamiter,
USAV National Team Coach for Men's Sitting Volleyball

Are you looking for creative ways to increase touches, create competitiveness, and increase athleticism and fitness levels? Stop running in circles! Play games to warm up! In this creative AVCA convention on-court presentation, legendary coaches Bill Neville and Bill Hamiter present you with a variety of activities and games that incorporate all of these essential elements of successful volleyball into your warm-up. Neville and Hamiter present more than 10 different activities, with each possessing a variety of progressions that you can adjust to create a desired outcome. Their instruction includes mixing up drill combinations, varying the amount of ball touches and changing the skills you want to incorporate into your practice. The goal throughout this presentation is to stimulate your imagination into wrapping these drills and games around the needs of your team. The desired outcome of this skill-based warm-up is to blur the line between the end of your warm-up and the beginning of practice. Use your imagination and make warm-ups a more valuable part of your practice.

58 minutes. 2009

with Trish Knight,
Head Coach, Texas Tech University;
2x AVCA Junior College Coach of the Year while at Missouri State;
member of the NJCAA Volleyball Coaches Hall of Fame (2005), Career record at Missouri State 676-170

As a 4x state championship high school coach and multi-time Junior College Coach of the Year, Trish Knight has experienced success at every level she has coached. In this on-court AVCA convention presentation, Coach Knight shares a series of skill and drill progressions designed to improve overall passing skills, with the ultimate goal of mastering deep receive passes. Knight begins with passing basics featuring a review of proper passing mechanics including platform and body positioning, and a three-drill progression to train stationary and movement pattern passing. Knight moves to her 5-phase progression for lunge passing, which includes lunge basics, low lunge passing, deep ball passing and deep and short passing combinations. This series of progressions offers a clear idea of how to work your players from the basics through more advanced passing. The key to successful skill development in passing is the development of the toss. Throughout her presentation, Knight shares instruction on how to perfect the toss to assist in more rapid passing development. Knight offers you creative ways to improve the range of your passer.

49 minutes 2009.

with Suzie Fritz,
Kansas State University Head Coach

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