I am assuming Girls? Would be interesting to see if this holds up for Boys. Things like net height increase at 15U, heavier/harder ball, different growth spurt timing for boys would make this pretty interesting :)
This is something I’ve been slowly changing. Last season the coach of these athletes relied on the middle as the lone blocker. I’m now the coach and have 8 of the 12 athletes returning so I’ve been changing the way they’re being trained.
"Developing some basic competency in read blocking and other tactics can help your teams stand up against offenses that are starting to get really good."
I've been teaching my 17s the Middle-Middle defensive system and we do a lot of the BSBH type drills. Is it just time and patience and 'repping' it out so they get used to it? I can tell they get frustrated and my poor middle is running a track meet as the lone single blocker. I'm trying to get the front row to 'sync' with her.
May I ask, what is the data set here? 10 matches? 20 matches? What level of club? Thanks for all your work.
Would love to get more club data and get deep data sets like I have for NCAA and FIVB!
Each data set was 8 matches from the gold bracket of Open division of AAU Nationals.
I am assuming Girls? Would be interesting to see if this holds up for Boys. Things like net height increase at 15U, heavier/harder ball, different growth spurt timing for boys would make this pretty interesting :)
Absolutely. I'll get my hands on some match data and do the same for boys at different levels too!
This is something I’ve been slowly changing. Last season the coach of these athletes relied on the middle as the lone blocker. I’m now the coach and have 8 of the 12 athletes returning so I’ve been changing the way they’re being trained.
"Developing some basic competency in read blocking and other tactics can help your teams stand up against offenses that are starting to get really good."
I've been teaching my 17s the Middle-Middle defensive system and we do a lot of the BSBH type drills. Is it just time and patience and 'repping' it out so they get used to it? I can tell they get frustrated and my poor middle is running a track meet as the lone single blocker. I'm trying to get the front row to 'sync' with her.
Yeah for sure, reps and learning it. Do your left and right-front players not also block?