Rayannah Salahuddin

Head Coach, Skyline College

Owner, 1st String Volleyball Club

(415) 297-9650 rsalahuddin@gmail.com

www.1string.org

� To learn the six fundamental movements of volleyball

� To understand how to assess each player development level, and skill level

� To run a multi-levels practice.

� How to motivate your players in 3rd

to 8th grade

� How to create attainable goals for your team.

� Underhand Passing� Overhand Passing� Setting� Attacking� Digging� Serving

� Progression for teaching all skills.◦ Footwork before adding a ball.◦ 80% retention in a closed environment before adding to open play.◦ Start with passing, setting, and serving for the first 3-4 weeks.

Step 1: Test Fundamental Movements Skills.

� Walking

� Running

� Skipping

� Galloping

� Jumping

� Leap

� Hopping

Ref: Human Motor Development : A Life Span Approach. Payne V.G, Isaacs L.D: Mc Graw Hill

Step 2: Assess volleyball-based specialized movement patterns

� Ball Tracking

� Hand-Eye, Hand-Foot Coordination

� Power Generation

Step 3: Modify drills to improve your players fundamental and volleyball-based specialized movement patterns.

This is the most challenging part of youth coaching. You need to teach volleyball skills while solidifying their movement patterns. This changes what your goals are and how you should motivate your team.

� Rudimentary PlayersRudimentary PlayersRudimentary PlayersRudimentary Players◦ Physically behind her age

maturation.◦ Major flaws in fundamental

movement patterns.◦ Major flaws in specialized movement

patterns.These are the players that tend to be ignored in practices. Focus on fixing the root cause of their errors; the flaws in their movement patterns. You may have to modify the drill . 1-on-1 coaching time is critical for these players.

� Beginning PlayersBeginning PlayersBeginning PlayersBeginning Players◦ Maturation is age appropriate.◦ Major flaws in 1-2 fundamental

movement patterns.◦ Major flaws in specialized movement

patterns.These players need some work on there fundamental movements, but you will see a dramatic improvement in their specialized skills as a result.

� Intermediate PlayersIntermediate PlayersIntermediate PlayersIntermediate Players◦ Maturation tends to be slightly

ahead.◦ Minor flaws in fundamental

movement patterns.◦ Major flaws in 1-2 specialized

movement patterns.These player need some small group coaching in the beginning of the season, but flourish after they retain the improvements. Coach tend to push these player too fast. Be patience, by mid season they can be coached like an advanced player.

� Advanced PlayersAdvanced PlayersAdvanced PlayersAdvanced Players◦ Maturation is 2-3 year ahead.◦ Solid fundamental movement

patterns.◦ Solid specialized movement patterns.These players tend to be either the be the focus of practice or become bored because they are ahead of their age. The best option is to modify the goal of the drill for those players so they continue improve.

� PLAN , PLAN, PLAN◦ Always come with a printed practice plan and forms to track your teams performance.

� Use your advanced players◦ You can ask your advanced players to toss, feed balls or run a drill while you coach others.

� Concise Feedback◦ Coaches tend to give to much feedback. Based on your practice plan only give feedback surrounding the skills you are working on that day.

� Use Player-Centered Drills◦ Have your player toss and feed, use stations. This allows you to be free to coach.

� Focus in form and improvement not the outcome.

Coaches tend to cheer for

the advance player ability perform high level skills. If you focus on all players improving their form you will give praise more evenly.

� BE POSTIVE!

Your feedback should

sound like this:

“You are doing X well, now work on Y for me. Great Job!!”

Great coaching task:

For the next 24 hours

practice only saying yes.

• All goals should be based on your teams initial assessments.

• Team Goals should be public and checked on regular intervals.

• Individual goals must be kept between you and the player only.

Books

Coaching Volleyball: Building a Winning Team- Mc GownCoaching Youth Volleyball- JonasMotor Development: A Life Span Approach- Gregory Payne

DVD’s AVCA 2008 Convention: Volleykids DVD, Games for Youth SportsChampionship Series DVD: Any youth volleyball DVD.

Online Websiteswww.humankinetics.com –Great resources for books. Any book by this publisher is peer-reviewed and well-written.www.avca.org –It is worth the money to join and participate in the ACVA National Convention.

Ray’s Volleyball Drills: I uploaded all my drills on http://www.jes-volleyball.com/index.html . Email or compressing all my drills was impossible. You may have to search for them, but please feel free to call me if you need help.

Every year we offer one grant for a deserving coach to the AVCA National Convention and the NCAA Division I Semi-final and Final match. If you are interested in applying email coach Ray at rsalahuddin@gmail.com

Selection Criteria•1-3 years of coaching experience.•Interested in coaching as a full-time career.•Can show finical hardship, and would be unable to attend the convention without assistance.

Deadline: Nov 30th 2009