We are not going to be in the gym for a while (maybe a long while), so we need video to do some teaching.
Our first film session will be BYU, which uses all of the Gold Medal Squared concepts and Stanford who uses most of the concepts. By using video of these two teams, we get to watch, review, learn a lot of the concepts we teach at CIViC.
Here is the link to the video to the 2018 National Semifinals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIdHLYF0hD4
This first video review is over the first point of the match. It is 0:09 seconds of film time. You can go to the tools icon and slow the film speed down, which I recommend. My notes are behind the "Read More" break. Parent and players, this is being directed at high school players and even then, because of the struggles of the 16's to pass, their practices were built around improving the passing. There is probably not much useful here for an elementary player. We are happy if they are smiling and having fun. Lock in on the skills that apply to you. Ask questions as needed.
My recommendation for watching is to have access to two screens. Watch the video on a large screen such as a desk top or lap top, and then have a screen with the play-by-play available to read, a phone is fine for this.
Our first film session will be BYU, which uses all of the Gold Medal Squared concepts and Stanford who uses most of the concepts. By using video of these two teams, we get to watch, review, learn a lot of the concepts we teach at CIViC.
Here is the link to the video to the 2018 National Semifinals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIdHLYF0hD4
This first video review is over the first point of the match. It is 0:09 seconds of film time. You can go to the tools icon and slow the film speed down, which I recommend. My notes are behind the "Read More" break. Parent and players, this is being directed at high school players and even then, because of the struggles of the 16's to pass, their practices were built around improving the passing. There is probably not much useful here for an elementary player. We are happy if they are smiling and having fun. Lock in on the skills that apply to you. Ask questions as needed.
My recommendation for watching is to have access to two screens. Watch the video on a large screen such as a desk top or lap top, and then have a screen with the play-by-play available to read, a phone is fine for this.
0:03 BYU serve receive is in middle-middle. Notice the passer in position 5 is rotated to face Stanford's server who is in position 1. This is exactly what we teach.
0:07 Stanford's server uses the four step approach that we teach but little else. She uses a two hand toss. We teach one.
BYU's serve receive have their arms out in front, which we teach. We take it one more step and prefer their hands and wrist already be together.
0:08 BYU's setter uses a 3 step transition to her base. The nice long steps allow her to start left foot forward and go R-L-R. She turns on the third step to face her passers. Then, she gets her two quick shuffle steps in to set her body. She is not super tall at 5'9. She has trained to use long, quick strides.
0:09 Stanford's back row is 2x2 and middle back is a step deeper than middle-middle. She will step into middle-middle as the play develops. We want to keep things a little simpler and have our middle back start in middle-middle and simply face the ball/attacker and not step forward.
0:10 Stanford's defensive rotation is pretty close to what we teach. The back row did a great job. The off blocker does a poor job (apparently) of transition. I say that not knowing the Sanford scouting report. There is a chance she is right where she should be, or maybe she saw something that caused her to roll up along the net. We teach that the off blocker should have her up court foot on the attack line. By getting her left foot on/near the 10' line the off blocker helps defend the hard cross court attack that can result from a slide attack.
Stanford's middle blocker was hedging to the BYU left-side hitter. Again, maybe this is the Stanford scouting report. The first read we ask of a middle blocker is the opposing team's middle hitter. A CIViC middle blocker should have moved a step to her left when the opposing middle moved to her left. Instead, the Stanford middle block is really late to close the block with her 3 step swing block. Recognize she ran to close the block. She did not peel off to play defense. Blockers block!
0:08-0:10 BYU's middle-attacker will use a 5 step transition to prepare for the slide attack. She flip her hips and runs with a three step (R-L-R) footwork. As she plants step three (her right foot) she closes her hips to the setter and has a two step shuffle (L/R). It critically important that the shuffle is not our defensive footwork. This is an inside-outside pattern. By going inside/outside, it allows the middle attacker to be ready to use the same three step slide approach (L-R-L) that we teach. The BYU's middle attacker's right high knee drive on step three (her left foot) is excellent. She just happens to hit right into the Stanford opposite's block.
0:09 Stanford's opposite does not swing block. She does a great job of sequencing the play (ball-setter-ball-hitter) and shuffles along the net as the BYU middle attacker is moving into her attack position. Stanford's opposite is standing right where she needs to be after completing her eye sequencing and shuffles. Once she jumps, she does a super job of pressing her hands across the net. Block Stanford. The score is 1-0.
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