In order to become a good volleyball coach, you will need to teach your team volleyball skills and get the team to practice those skills. Building team unity is also essential. A successful volleyball coach knows foster a sense of camaraderie in players. Read on to learn coach volleyball.
Instructions
Build Camaraderie in Your Volleyball Team
1. Create an introduction questionnaire that each team member will fill out. Include questions about their favorite foods, career goals or preferred music.
2. Read the completed questionnaires to the team members. Ask the team to guess which team member wrote which answers.
3. Encourage working as a team by setting up a pizza party if the team meets certain goals during the season. Eating together creates bonds between players.
4. Discuss team successes and mention how individual players contributed to the progress. Be sure to spread the praise around over time.
5. Take the players out bowling one evening. Bowling tends to bring the goofy side of people out, which fosters friendships.
Keep Your Team Fit Pre-Season With Stretching
6. Set aside about 45 minutes for stretching in pre-season practices. Decrease stretching time as the volleyball season nears.
7. Time each stretch for the players. This eliminates the need for them to count to themselves.
8. Start the practice session with 10 minutes of slow jogging. This warms up muscles for the stretches.
9. Lead the team through the stretches you like to use in volleyball.
10. Count off 30 seconds for the team to hold each stretch. Then perform the same stretch again for 30 seconds.
11. Instruct your player to do the entire stretching routine again at home. Even if some players don't do it, the team benefits from those who do stretch at home.
Establish a Coaching Plan
12. Arrange volleyball skill drills in the following order: overhand serve, passing, setting, attacking and blocking. Develop a drill that combines all of these skills, to be practiced at the end of each session.
13. Choose a few player to begin trying to set the ball after a week.
14. Teach and practice the basic rules of volleyball. Test your teams knowledge of court positions, court boundaries and team formations.
15. Set up controlled games (team members against other team members). This helps put drilled skills into context.
16. Schedule scrimmages after about four weeks of practice. Follow all of the formalities of a real game to acquaint players with game day pressures.
