| Watching volleyball videos can seem like the | | | | tape recorder in my mind. This is actually |
| most boring aspect of pre game preparation | | | | kind of easy because when you aren't |
| but like most things you just have to know | | | | performing a skill correctly THAT IS when |
| how to MAKE it work for you. | | | | your coach starts yelling at you anyway, |
| | | | right? What they are yelling at the top of |
| Usually there are two basic reasons why a | | | | their lungs already exists in your mind so |
| coach has you watch volleyball videos...in | | | | you just start playing that mental volleyball |
| preparation of an upcoming game or to get | | | | videotape, over and over. |
| better at performing a particular volleyball | | | | |
| fundamental. It's easy to get lulled into or | | | | Then little by little both what I SEE in my |
| lost in the moment of the game on the small | | | | mind and what I HEAR in my head start meshing |
| screen but instead of watching every play | | | | together. When I re-play this continuously in |
| just for the sake of saying "hey I finished | | | | my mind these two things start coming |
| watching the video" pick a particular | | | | together where I form a mental volleyball |
| volleyball fundamental that you need to | | | | movie of my own. When this mental movie |
| improve and watch the best one or two players | | | | starts playing then after awhile my body |
| perform that fundamental over and over again. | | | | starts to respond to the mental voice I hear |
| | | | and the mental picture I've been playing. |
| If you need to improve your volleyball serve | | | | |
| receive skill or "pass the ball" better then | | | | My body starts doing the things that I have |
| that's the part of the game you need to focus | | | | been rehearsing over and over again in my |
| on watching other more experienced players | | | | mind. I start seeing myself -take the place |
| do. Unless your volleyball coach has | | | | of that player and in my mind I see myself |
| instructed you to watch something in | | | | performing the pass correctly over and over. |
| particular (like the way a team plays defense | | | | |
| or the way a player transitions off the net) | | | | And the aspects of the game that I am playing |
| focus on watching a better player perform the | | | | over and over start to become automatic and I |
| skill that you need to work on the most. How | | | | start doing these things physically- not just |
| does she do that? | | | | mentally- but actually in real life. |
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| What are they doing? How are they standing | | | | That's how I make watching volleyball videos |
| while the server still has the volleyball? Do | | | | work for me. |
| they have a stutter step or do they hop jump | | | | |
| as the ball is crossing the net? Which foot | | | | It's great when you can hear a volleyball |
| is forward? Is their upper body straight up | | | | champion who has played for years commentate |
| or crouched over? Are they straight legged or | | | | on the game. Singin Smith, Karch Kiraly, Mike |
| are they in a slight squat position when they | | | | Dodd and Holly McPeak do the color commentary |
| serve receive? | | | | with Chris Marlowe for the AVP Beach Pro |
| | | | Volleyball Tour games on television. All |
| This is what happens to me when I'm watching | | | | these volleyball Champions represent some of |
| a volleyball video... | | | | the greatest players in the history of the |
| | | | AVP and all are past Olympians with multiple |
| If I'm watching someone serve receive | | | | gold,silver and bronze medals in Indoor and |
| well....I watch this player execute the right | | | | Beach Volleyball. Listening to them talk |
| volleyball skill or technique over and over | | | | about the game is like going to volleyball |
| and over again. I want to take that "scene" | | | | school. The more you do it...the better |
| and take that "visual" with me so I start | | | | volleyball player you can become....and |
| playing that scene repeatedly in my head. I | | | | that's one way to make volleyball videos |
| start visualizing that player doing the same | | | | improve your volleyball game. |
| thing in my mind after I've stopped watching. | | | | |
| When I go home, when I go to bed, when I'm | | | | April Chapple is a former USA National Womens |
| washing dishes, before practice I get used to | | | | Volleyball Team member and Volleyball |
| seeing this player do the serve receive | | | | Professional who created Volleyball Voices |
| correctly in my mind. | | | | the first virtual volleyball mentoring |
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| Then... I start hearing my coach's words on | | | | volleyball coaches with stories by champion |
| how to do this skill correctly. So then I | | | | women volleyball players and coaching |
| hear my volleyball coach, I hear my coach say | | | | volleyball articles that break up volleyball |
| "step to the ball", "present my platform", | | | | skills so females learn how to play better |
| "use my legs", and I keep hearing my | | | | volleyball. |
| volleyball coach's words over and over like a | | | | |