Episode 73: Coaching Skill: Adding elastic to your gym for faster improvement, When you can't stop and opposing hitter, and Mick Haley's take on stats that matter

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This week's skill is how and why to use elastic in your gym to enhance training. In hopes of training in an Ecological Dynamics methodology, using elastic can help athletes be free to engage their own learning without being restricted by thinking about their body parts, which slows down processing and learning. They can use external cues to guide their improvement with simple adjustments to the environment that help them to focus on the intention of the action. Elastic is one way to help this process to happen.

Our scenario segment is about when your team cannot stop an opposing hitter. We cover a lot of ways to win matches where you cannot find a way to get points when their best hitter is attacking. Some of these ideas that we cover include: minimizing the number of opportunities that the hitter gets in "scoring position", "pulling" the attacker out of her ideal approach spot, and simply giving up trying to stop her and focusing on stopping the other hitters. Coaches will surely get a nugget or two that will help them to get ideas for their own teams, when they have to deal with bigger hitters.

For our resource section we share an amazing wealth of information that can found on Youtube: Mick Haley's discussion on statistics that matter, via Front Range Volleyball Club and Jim Stone. This talk is so rich in formation and it only has around 700 watches on Youtube! You can be one of the only people who has heard this incredibly impactful video that touches on: winning rally scoring matches, the most important stats to keep, how to perceive digs and their usefulness and much more. Coaches will surely think differently after watching this information-rich video!

Skill of the Week: Using elastic in your gym to enhance learning

Scenario of the week: When your team cannot stop an opposing attacker and what to do

This week's Art of Coaching Volleyball videos focused on why and how to use elastic in your practice:

This video by Mark Rosen shows how he uses elastic to teach players to hit high above the net: https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/over-the-elastic-attacking-drill/

This video from Dan Meske from Louisville shows how to use elastic to teach blockers how to cut off angles: ⁠https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/elastic-blocking-drill/

Tod Mattox discusses how to get your athletes to have amore ideal hand path as they block over the net: ⁠https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/ideal-hand-path-when-blocking/

The Resource of the Week, Mick Haley Talks Volleyball on Youtube, by Mick Haley and presented by Front Range Volleyball Club and Jim Stone, can be found here: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fxhtsSnK1I