My first Armswing Mechanics session with Nick Del Bianco was one of my most popular pieces of SmarterVolley content of all time. By popular demand, he agreed to come on again and share more knowledge with us. He went through his system and principles again, but a little faster this time, so we had time to get into some details that we didn’t hit the first time around.
We hit a bunch of topics:
His overall philosophy and the principles of a sound armswing.
What you can do every practice, given a limited amount of training time.
How you “idiot-proof” some basic strength exercises, if you’re a HS/club coach and don’t have a full training staff.
The interaction of broad-jumping and attacking with rotation.
What to do with “half-rotators.”
Incorporating Itsy-Bitsy style exercises to build shoulder strength and health over time.
Managing the arm in tighter space and/or shot-making.
And more!
Nick’s also been kind enough to put together a playlist of 12 teach-once, use-often exercises that promote healthy and capable “shoulders” — a very limited term because, as we discuss, good hitting is a full-body (including the brain) activity. That’s below the paywall, along with the full webinar video.
Nick has just launched an Armswing Pocket Guide which is best complete-but-simple guide to armswing development I’ve seen. And it’s available for all SmarterVolley readers right here! (It’s available for… everybody, because it’s free. But I want you all to feel special.) The videos in that pocket guide, as well as the playlist below are great compliments to the webinar because they are examples of what we talk about during the session.
Please feel free to follow-up with questions as well; I think we might have enough to do a follow-up Q&A article or mini-session in a couple weeks.
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