Practice Solutions for Winning Volleyball Set of 4 DVD's

Four great volleyball dvd's for one low price! One of the volleyball's greatest teachers, Mary Wise, has created this DVD series with the goal of helping volleyball coaches teach and coach essential individual skills while incorporating them into effective team play. Wise's teaching progressions range from beginning level play to a more advanced, aggressive and competitive team play. This series is appropriate for all coaches from club thorough high school level.

Defensive Drill Solutions: Serving, Blocking and Digging - with Mary Wise, University of Florida Head Volleyball Coach, 2X AVCA National Coach of the Year! For the younger and/or developing players, Mary Wise believes that serving is perhaps the most important skill in volleyball, while blocking and digging development can be especially difficult. In Part 1 of this three-part presentation, Wise serves up 14 different drills and progressions for the overhand serve. Beginning with the skill of throwing the ball, she progresses to close-to-the-net serves and into more advanced competitive drills; such as target serving. In Part 2, Wise goes through a 12 drill progression for blocking. She begins the blocking progress without a ball or net and adds hitting, jumping, boxes and footwork. She ends the segment with competitive drills. In Part 3, Wise repeats her simple to complex progression for digging. She uses eight drills that progress from catching and lifting drills and ends with aggressive, fearless digging. This is a great DVD that has something for every player on your team. 44 minutes. 2005. DVD. VD-2484A

Offensive Drill Solutions: Hitting, Passing, and Setting - with Mary Wise, University of Florida Head Volleyball Coach, 2X AVCA National Coach of the Year! This video is packed with 60 drills and variations for developing offensive skills. In each section, Wise emphasizes her teaching and coaching philosophy, which includes progressing a player from individual skill development to team play. Every step of the way her goal is to make practice fun, challenging and competitive. In Part 1: Passing Drills, Wise shares 18 drills beginning with elementary passing drills and progressing to platform passing, advanced multi-skill drills, and competitive drills for the team. In Part 2: Setting Drills, Wise shares 19 drills that progress from individual to partner and team drills that cover all aspects of the setting. In Part 3, Hitting Drills, Wise shares 23 drills. She breaks down the arm swing by drilling on a box allowing players who may not be big jumpers to focus on their arm swing. Wise then progresses into toss-and-catch and toss-and-hit drills before incorporating the approach. She then shares competitive drills that include scoring and accountability. This DVD is a must for the coach looking to develop individual and team play for offense. 54 minutes. 2005. DVD. VD-2484B

Practice Planning Solutions - with Mary Wise, University of Florida Head Volleyball Coach, 2X AVCA National Coach of the Year! When watching Mary Wise it is easy to see her unconditional love for the game in every aspect of her coaching. Wise feels that above all, the most important value a coach can instill in a player is a love for the game. In Practice Planning Solutions, Wise begins by presenting four themes that echo in all of her practices. These themes encompass the head and the heart for learning and competing, while having fun and loving the game. Wise presents eight principles for helping a coach establish a pattern for effective practice planning. In addition, she discusses seven areas of emphasis she feels are essential for coaching younger players. The theme of these concepts is to create an atmosphere of success with ideas for modifications that can easily be implemented to ensure a successful and fun practice for younger players. To bring it all together, Wise offers a bird's eye view of her teaching and coaching methodology by taking a team of young players through seven different drills that reflect the model for an effective practice that challenges players with game-like situations. 33 minutes. 2005. DVD. VD-2484C

Competitive Play Solutions: Games for the Game - with Mary Wise, University of Florida Head Volleyball Coach, 2X AVCA National Coach of the Year! In this "competitive games" presentation, Mary Wise shares 13 of her favorite competitive games. Each game has a unique and/or specific focus on essential fundamental skills of the game. What makes this DVD unique is the fact that each one of the 13 games Wise teaches and coaches is played out to completion so that you too can teach and coach the game through its finale! The games develop a number of focus areas: three contacts on a side, serve receive, defense to offense transition, hitting and blocking, serving, wash drills, team serve reception, digging, error corrections, passing and setting; all in competitive, game-like situations. These competitive situations will help you prepare your team for matches by teaching them to transition individual skill development into team play! 45 minutes. 2005. DVD. VD-2484D

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