Dig & Swing

Dig & Swing

By Sara LippittSportsVolleyball
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Dig & Swing episodes

  • 04 - Mental Skills Training
    Today I'm talking to Dan Mickle about Mental Skills Training!  This seems to be the trend lately among clubs and coaches, so let's hear about it from an expert!
    His Mental Skills website: https://soulperformanceacademy.com/
    His regular website: https://www.danmickle.com/
    35 min
  • 02 - BONUS RESOURCES
    Here is a list of all the resources Loren mentioned:
    John Kessel – Growing the Game
    Trevor Ragan – The Learner Lab
    Joey Peters– Game Play Learn
    Marianne Davies  -https://dynamics-coaching.com/
    Kathy Sierra – Pantherflow
    14 min
  • 02 - Coaching Principles
    This week, I'm chatting with Loren Anderson.  Loren is the director of Rise Volleyball Academy in Idaho and has a fantastic approach to coaching.  We talk about our philosophies, our successes and our challenges navigating our careers as coaches.
    Loren gave some GREAT resources at the end that I am uploading that as a separate episode with links to all the great people he mentions!
    40 min
  • 01 - Beginnings

    Sara and Pat talk about starting out as a coach!


    Sara's Website:  www.digitwithsara.com

    VCT Facebook page:  www.facebook.com/groups/volleycoaches/

    Ruckus Drill: 

    This is from a couple years ago, but it was a drill that changed my practices from "meh" to "woah", in terms of court awareness and energy.

    X vs X (or Y, make it work for your team), players serve. Coach's sole job is to work the flip-score to the best of his/her ability. Points are scored via any meaningful communication made by any player. Open your mouth = 1 point for your team.

    Example: Team A serves to Team B. Team B calls the serve in (+1), deep (+1), and the serve receiver herself calls mine (+1). The setter would be calling "here" as she transitions up (+1) and God forbid the passer calls the intended setter's name (+1). Let's say there are 3 individual hitters calling for their set (+1) (+1) (+1). So by the time the hitter has made contact with the set, in a perfect world, Team B has scored 8 points.

    Team A could be calling on/off/over (+1) on the pass, along with the set that has been made (+1), and whether the player who was set is swinging or tipping (+1). Without having touched the ball, Team A can score 3 points.

    Play the rally out as a normal match generally would. Rally points scored count for 1 point as well.

    *Obviously you can adjust this for what your gym values in terms of communication. Adjust if you want them to rotate normally, etc etc etc. Make this fit your system*

    Play the game to 99 points. The "game" generally takes ~8 minutes or so, IF the players are consistently communicating the right way.

    23 min
  • 00 - Trailer!

    Here we go!  I'm so excited to get this started!  Here's a little peak into what this is all about!

    6 min

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