This past weekend I was asked to present at a health and Physical Education conference. this is an annual event in Alberta that features local educators and some of the unique and powerful health and education practices. I was asked to present on designing drills and thinking about how to move the drills closer to the game.
We started the session discussing how we like to run our practices and then demonstrated drills from each phase. We always run our practices with 4 basic parts; Ball control, a tutor phase, a mini game and then 6 on 6 big game. Depending on the phase of the season will determine how long in each phase we will stay. We also try to run the same concept through the last 3 phases. This allows the athlete to concentrate on improving the one technical or tactical skill and apply it quickly to a game situation. For the presentation I chose serve and reception ideas. During the big game phase we showed a bunch of different ways to introduce balls into wash type drills.
I will put some sample drills in each phase here. The practice plan is an excel spread sheet that Glen Hoag passed on to me a few years back. It allows me to write out the practices and keep the years practice in one book.
Here is the link to the drills.
https://acrobat.com/#d=zmHGfiGZCTKpCtJ-FC01xQ
Ball control
During Ball control we try to start with individual and small groups so the contact number is high. the first drill progressed from one person to controlling all contacts to working as a group. We usually try for continuos and count number of times the ball crosses the net. We call this overs. So we would try for 10 overs or 20 overs. we try to make it a challenging number and let the group figure out what works to achieve the drill. Often as coaches we want to jump in a fix the situation but letting the group struggle also is very beneficial to the team.
Tutor phase.
Depending on the phase of the season will determine how long we stay in our tutor phase. this is where we work on a specific skill. This is our rep phase. All of the research is showing that the one skill type drills doesn't transfer to the match as well as multiple skills. But it is still important for feel of what the skill should be like. to help the athlete understand during game play the successful feeling. during this phase we encourage coaches to still make it more game like. Example for a server to run in a defend a ball, in the match we never serve and stand around. For a passer in the weave drill we move forward to the attack line rather than backing out of the court to weave. This is more like moving forward to cover a hitter, then getting back in and focussing on the next pass. More on training the serve can be found here. http://bit.ly/Jc2YZn
Mini game.
Mini game is where we put the tutor phase into a game situation. This one is alternating serves and coming in. We would do this on two courts to get more contacts. If we only had one court we would add a middle attacker as an option. Moving it more towards game. The key points would remain the same as the during the tutor phase. Intensity and volume would be still fairly high. Playing five on five and having another person waiting off to serve keeps the flow up.
Big Game
Here are some examples of multiple ball games. Often in the past coaches would just enter the ball through the coach entering the free ball or down ball from the side of the court. The purpose of this is to keep the speed and intensity of the drill up and add extra contacts in the drill. In order to move the drill more towards the game we started to introduce the ball in different ways. We would still use the main scoring systems but had the opponents control the ball more.
Every drill starts or has a serve and pass phase. In every level the serve and pass game often determines the winner. Also with the new Mikasa ball the game has changed. We are out of system way more than we used to be. with coaches entering the down ball often puts that team in system. by having the opponents put the ball in creates an out of system situation more often and it resembles the game better.
We started the session discussing how we like to run our practices and then demonstrated drills from each phase. We always run our practices with 4 basic parts; Ball control, a tutor phase, a mini game and then 6 on 6 big game. Depending on the phase of the season will determine how long in each phase we will stay. We also try to run the same concept through the last 3 phases. This allows the athlete to concentrate on improving the one technical or tactical skill and apply it quickly to a game situation. For the presentation I chose serve and reception ideas. During the big game phase we showed a bunch of different ways to introduce balls into wash type drills.
I will put some sample drills in each phase here. The practice plan is an excel spread sheet that Glen Hoag passed on to me a few years back. It allows me to write out the practices and keep the years practice in one book.
Here is the link to the drills.
https://acrobat.com/#d=zmHGfiGZCTKpCtJ-FC01xQ
Ball control
During Ball control we try to start with individual and small groups so the contact number is high. the first drill progressed from one person to controlling all contacts to working as a group. We usually try for continuos and count number of times the ball crosses the net. We call this overs. So we would try for 10 overs or 20 overs. we try to make it a challenging number and let the group figure out what works to achieve the drill. Often as coaches we want to jump in a fix the situation but letting the group struggle also is very beneficial to the team.
Tutor phase.
Depending on the phase of the season will determine how long we stay in our tutor phase. this is where we work on a specific skill. This is our rep phase. All of the research is showing that the one skill type drills doesn't transfer to the match as well as multiple skills. But it is still important for feel of what the skill should be like. to help the athlete understand during game play the successful feeling. during this phase we encourage coaches to still make it more game like. Example for a server to run in a defend a ball, in the match we never serve and stand around. For a passer in the weave drill we move forward to the attack line rather than backing out of the court to weave. This is more like moving forward to cover a hitter, then getting back in and focussing on the next pass. More on training the serve can be found here. http://bit.ly/Jc2YZn
Mini game.
Mini game is where we put the tutor phase into a game situation. This one is alternating serves and coming in. We would do this on two courts to get more contacts. If we only had one court we would add a middle attacker as an option. Moving it more towards game. The key points would remain the same as the during the tutor phase. Intensity and volume would be still fairly high. Playing five on five and having another person waiting off to serve keeps the flow up.
Big Game
Here are some examples of multiple ball games. Often in the past coaches would just enter the ball through the coach entering the free ball or down ball from the side of the court. The purpose of this is to keep the speed and intensity of the drill up and add extra contacts in the drill. In order to move the drill more towards the game we started to introduce the ball in different ways. We would still use the main scoring systems but had the opponents control the ball more.
Every drill starts or has a serve and pass phase. In every level the serve and pass game often determines the winner. Also with the new Mikasa ball the game has changed. We are out of system way more than we used to be. with coaches entering the down ball often puts that team in system. by having the opponents put the ball in creates an out of system situation more often and it resembles the game better.
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