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Volleyball Serving, Training Tip #53: When Serving, A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

Volleyball Serving Training Tip #53: 

When Serving, A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Waste

The power of visualization.

Visualize yourself serving a tough volleyball serve that lands in the

court, right to the specific position you are aiming for. 

See yourself going through the motions of your serving technique 

when you are off the court, so that when you are on the court, every 

serving motion comes naturally.

This is a great way of conducting your volleyball serving practice when 

you are outside or away from the gym.

These additional volleyball serving articles will help you improve your volleyball serve!

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Volleyball Voices: Womens Beach Volleyball Olympian Annette Huygens Tholen On Goal Achievement

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Goal Achievement

By: Annette Huygens-Tholen

I thought I was pretty good at setting goals and achieving them. At just 10 years old I decided that I wanted to go to the Olympics and I achieved that in 2000, representing Australia in Beach Volleyball. It did take me 24 years to get there but I always kept the end in mind. Lucky I didnt listen to anyone who thought it was out of my reach.

When I started studying Neuro-linguistic programming I started to understand the science behind goal setting and Ive been able to achieve goals and dreams in the last 3 years quicker and faster than ever before.
Goals provide you the motivation to move ahead. Here are 7 keys that you need to consider in order for you to achieve your goals, whether in the next year, or in your lifetime. 

1st Key Dare to Dream

Start thinking about who you want to be, what you want to have and where you want to go in your life. Have goals that you're passionate about, that excite you. Think about what is that you really want, if you could have anything you desire. 

Many people limit themselves in life by what they think they can get or deserve. I say dream big, without limits. It may take longer to achieve the bigger dreams, but you will never reach them unless you allow your imagination to take you there in the first place.
Often, we limit ourselves when we don't even dare to dream big dreams or goals because we are thinking how am I going to do that. The how takes care of itself when you first decide the what. 

2nd Key -Write it down

Many people dont write goals in order to avoid failure, or they fear being accountable for following through. There is a certain power to putting a goal down on paper. It means you need to be clear about what it is you really want. I think this is so useful, because until I write a goal down its a wishy-washy concept that changes by the moment. Without clarity, it makes it very difficult to manifest what it is that you really want.
When writing a goal, be specific about what you want and put a date to it. That might seem scary to some, but its important to put a deadline to your goal to create the urgency to make it happen. Without that, the goal will always be out in the future someday!

3rd Key Visualize your Goal

Try your goal on for size by stepping into it as if it is happening for you right now. Be there in the picture, then also step out of the picture and see yourself achieving the goal. By stepping out of the picture, it gives your mind the idea that there is still something to get before achieving that goal. We dont want you thinking that youve already made it! Visualization processes are very effective in adding the clarity and feeling to goals to maximize your ability to achieve them easier and more quickly. 

4th Key Take Action

It's one thing deciding on a goal and then you need to start taking action towards it. How would you be acting if you knew you were going to achieve that goal? 
The important thing of taking action is doing something. At least by starting towards it, you'll be surprised at what opportunities come in your life to enable that. When those opportunities come, you need to take them. Youll start seeing and meeting the people even that will enable you to achieve your goal. And you need to act.
Have a look and see who has achieved your goals before you. How did they do it? What is their recipe for success? 

What I suggest you do is ask yourself everyday Whats one thing I can today towards my goal? Its the little things that you do every day that will work you towards your goal. 

5th Key - Stay focused

You are going to need to stay focused and committed to your goal. There will be obstacles in your way and as long as you stay focused on where you want to go, youll get around them. You will do what it takes. Youll see other ways of getting there because its not going to be a direct route. 
Keep the end in mind and every time an obstacle comes along your way, keep asking yourself how can I get to my goal? 
With staying focused on you goal, you need to assess regularly that you are on-course. You may need to constantly adjust to stay on track.

6th Key The Law of Detachment

Now, though youre focused on your goals, the 6th key appears incongruent with everything else I have been saying - You need to let go of your goal. Even though youre working towards it and youre committed to making happen, you also need to let go of it needing to happen. Some people visualize their goal every day, and having such wanting for it, its the want that can often push a goal away. I want this means I dont have it. 
When you start believing that it will happen and trusting the process, letting go of it needing to happen exactly as you plan it to be, youll be amazed at what happens to your life! 

7th Key Think beyond your Goal

Your goal is not the be all, end all. What does your goal allow you to do? Each goal is a stepping-stone towards the next goal, towards the next thing. You may start to question whether your goals are meaningful. If youre goal is to drive a fancy car, what does that mean for you. If you desire to go to the Olympics, what will that allow you to do? What goals give meaning to your life and the greater community? I believe the universe conspires in favor of those who are looking at goals outside of themselves and looking to help others. 

These are all brief summaries of the keys I think are important to ultimately achieving goals. It should get you thinking about what you need to do now to move ahead with confidence and success in your mind. It starts in the mind so dare to dream!

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Volleyball Voices: Womens Beach Volleyball Olympian Annette Huygens Tholen On How To Create Your Own Luck

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Create Your Own Luck

By: Annette Huygens-Tholen

Do you think you are lucky? Unlucky? Chances are that whatever you think is affecting your ability to attract or repel luck.

Have you ever said to yourself, I knew that would happen!? Its amazing our ability to be prophetic at times. Our expectations, whether conscious or unconscious, will often determine our results. Our mind communicates in pictures, sounds, feelings, and self-talk, and if you plant negative expectations into your unconscious, then that is the result you will get. Unfortunately, too much of our time is spent thinking about, and even searching for, the very things we dont want!

The trick to changing your results, then, is to change your expectations.

If you have ever played sport, you might at times have thought, I dont want to fail!...I never want to lose another match!...I am not a loser!? Be carefulthat is one way you might get exactly what you dont want because it becomes your whole focus. The mind doesnt hear/see/feel the word not. It only gets the pictures, sounds and feelings you create in your mind. If you imagine worst-case scenarios like not getting the job interview or your new business failing, what do you think youre more likely to create?

It is not only our physical habits that produce our results. It is our habitual thinking that will most often determine our outcomes, including expectations based in the kinds of unconscious fears, doubts, inner conflicts that sabotage our conscious desires. Its only when you start examining these, truthfully, that you start to see the reason why events occur.

I think we create our own luck through our attitude, our beliefs as well as our actions. Many people have been touted as being an overnight success, but it takes years and years to become an overnight success, years and years of doing the little things that matter in the end. More often than not, it is the small ordinary things done regularly that earn us our success. 

However, the little things done consistently can also create the undesired results in your life. Repeatedly eating the poor foods will lead to ill-health. Repeatedly trying to do the least can affect your results. Non-actions can be just as harmful. Not showing up for meetings, not learning new skills, not saying nothese all have biggerconsequences in the end than we may ever recognize. Those insidious self-doubts or negative attitudes you tell yourself about your performance or abilities work in the same way.

When you catch yourself expecting negative outcomes, think about what it is you really want instead. For example, try this simple experiment next time you are running late for an appointment and stuck in traffic. Rather than reinforcing that you are going to be late, predict the time you will arrive (on-time) and create the picture in your mind of arriving on time easily. Ive done this on numerous occasions and love how the traffic eases up or makes way for me, and I make it on the time I predict. You can use this to predict or anticipate many more useful results in your life. 

You have probably heard of people who manifest parking spaces all the time. I do it with remarkable consistency. If that is possible, then what else can you manifest? What else can you create in your life? Start to be aware of opportunities around you and you will see them.

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Volleyball Voices: Womens Beach Volleyball Olympian Annette Huygens Tholen On Sporting Success Can Be Depressing

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Sporting Success Can Be Depressing

By: Annette Huygens-Tholen

For many people its hard to imagine how, after achieving sporting goals including Gold, that athletes could ever be unhappy. What is often the highlight in an athletes career can also mark the beginning of the lowest point as an athlete comes to grips with a life where the rewards are not so significant. 

The road to sporting success is paved with exhilarating highs and devastating lows. This can be particularly strong in Olympic sports where so much focus is put into an event that occurs only every four years For most of their life, potential Olympians are singularly focused, nothing else matters but getting that Gold Medal. There is often not a next time, there is only one time; it is a one shot deal with their entire careers on the line. Not everyone can win Gold on the big day.

Athletes are regarded as Gods. We place the hope of the nation on their success and they are faced with enormous pressures to not let their country down. That moment is the height of the career where they are treated like Gods on the Mount of Olympus playing for the fate of their kingdom. When they win the gold we treat them like celebrities; we throw them parties, we put their faces on cereal boxes but eventually life returns back to normal.

But just what is normal when sport is over? And how do you return to it when youve just been treated like a God?

Depression among athletes, upon retirement, is a well-recognised problem and can be accentuated by disappointing results or a career prematurely ended by injury. Few athletes consider life after sport. In fact, in the normal world most athletes are strangers. They have given up normalcy for the chance to live the dream. Everyday tasks we take for granted have been traded in for training.

When sport is over, that is the end of a lifetime of ambition. Even winning the gold can be correlated to a low in an athletes career because there is nowhere left to go- there is nothing left to achieve. Life as that athlete knew it- is over.

Many successful athletes suffer from depression because of the inability to transition to a more normal lifestyle. In March of 2009, Olympic Gold Medalist, Australian Diver, Chantelle Newbury checked herself into a Psychiatric Hospital after she made her second suicide attempt. By all standards she is a monumental success having earned her country a Gold Medal, yet she has no life balance. 

In April, Jobie Dakja, an Olympic cyclist took his own life unable to cope with the depression and the struggle after being expelled from the Athens Olympics and then suspended from his cycling, his lifes passion.

Depression is not limited to life after sport with cases of several experiencing depression through their sporting career. Some of it is psychological and some of it is chemical with overtraining linked to depression. Concussion has also been shown to increase incidence of depression, a problem for contact sports such as football and ice hockey.

Perhaps what makes it worse for athletes is that there is an expectation that everything is wonderful in the life of sport. There are accolades and special privileges, but for some this can cause psychological pressure. Andrew Johns is an Australian football player that found the pressure of celebrity overwhelming leading to drug abuse and depression.

Adding to the problem is that athletes often do not seek out help, preferring to put on a brave face than show signs of weakness. Olympic swimming champion, Petria Thomas, felt hopeless and had lost her passion and focus prior to winning her first Olympic medal back in 1996. With pain in her shoulders, Thomas declared In a sense, swimming is all I felt like I had in my life.

This one-side devotion to sport can both be the cause of their greatest success and their downfall. Though there are many factors contributing to an athletes mental pain, the important thing is that athletes realise they are not alone and seek help. As we suffer more and more fallouts from our countries top athletes we will be forced into a position to recognize the need for mental health support and to nurture a better life-career balance for our sporting heros. 

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Annette Huygens Tholen is a former international beach volleyball player and 2000 Olympian. She experienced the difficulties of transition from sport and is now a Master Results Coach and International speaker using her learnings and experience to empower athletes to reproduce emotional and financial success in their life after sport. Her book, Success beyond Sport is now available. For more information on how to successfully transition after sport, please visit www.annetteffect.com .

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Volleyball Voices: Womens Beach Volleyball Olympian Annette Huygens Tholen On Self Belief Beyond Sport

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Self-belief Beyond Sport

By: Annette Huygens-Tholen

I think a key to an athletes success is their unwavering belief in themselves and their own ability. This self-belief does not always cross over to skills outside of sport and can contribute to the struggle athletes face on retirement.

Beliefs are aspects of life that we believe to hold true. What I believe determines my reality, what you believe determines your reality. So how do we come to believe different things? It often comes down to our experiences, particularly our experiences growing up. 

Research shows that our experiences within our first 7 years of life are very instrumental in determining our beliefs, in shaping our beliefs. They can be shaped by our parents and what we see happening with our parents and around our community, or church. Think now about what you believe. What do you believe about your abilities, what do you believe about life? 

I mean we all believe the world is round. But at one time in life, people thought the world was flat. And that was their reality. They hadnt seen anything different. 

So, what sort of beliefs are helping you or holding you back? 

Some beliefs are great like I am going to the Olympics. I had a self-belief that I could do it and so that drove me to train and persist until I achieved it in 2000. I am sure there are things that you pushed for and created because you believed you could do it. I am also sure there are some things you are not doing because you believe they are not possible. 

In particular, what do you believe about your ability to succeed in areas outside of sport? What do you believe about finance? Are you good with money? What about career, relationships, health. 

I have now created an amazing life after sport because I broke through beliefs about what I could have in life. I chose to believe that I could continue on doing what I was doing, traveling around the world and have an amazing relationship that supported that. Before that I limited myself by thinking I had to choose between one and another. How often do we think we have to choose between one thing and the other? And then that becomes our life - one of compromise. 

Think about some things you might have believed from when you were young are you good enough, pretty enough, do you have what it takes? Sport is easy, math is hard. The list goes on, the beliefs list. It all goes back to points in time when you decide to believe something. 

For example, I was at an airport watching this frustrated man berate his wife after a struggle through security. They had 3 tiny kids with them looking uncomfortable as their parents argued. The eldest little boy stuck up for his mom at one point saying it was not her fault. The father was doing the best he could with a difficult situation, however, at the heat of the moment he told the boy life is hard and you had better get used to it. 

This little kid is probably 7-8 years old, and with that statement from his father a new belief was most likely shaped right there. I can just imagine him in 20 years time thinking life is hard and his life reflecting that. This is the power of the mind in determining our life. The good news is that beliefs can change. The first step is awareness. When you realize that you can choose what you believe then you are a big step forward in creating success in anything you desire, including beyond sport. 

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Annette Huygens Tholen is a former international beach volleyball player and 2000 Olympian. She experienced the difficulties of transition from sport and is now a Master Results Coach and International speaker using her learnings and experience to empower athletes to reproduce emotional and financial success in their life after sport. Her book, Success beyond Sport is now available. For more information on how to successfully transition after sport, please visit www.annetteffect.com .

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Volleyball Voices: Womens Beach Volleyball Olympian Annette Huygens Tholen On Recreating That Lockerroom Feeling

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Recreating That Locker Room Feeling

By: Annette Huygens-Tholen

One of the things mentioned by retired athletes about what they miss about sport is the locker-room camaraderie that sport provides. As an athlete you hang around a supportive sporting community with like-minded friends and colleagues. Everyone shares a common objective and passion in life. Its not uncommon for sporting relationships to extend beyond the sporting field to personal life and this can result in an athletes life revolving around sport and its contacts. 

So what happens when the athlete retires? Do they stay within the sporting community? Many do and go on to be coaches and mentors. Some stick around and may even come out of retirement. I know because I did that, twice! 

Many athletes, including the collegiate athlete, leave the sporting community to pursue new goals and a career. How can they recreate that same feeling of camaraderie that encouraged and supported them during sport? 

I didnt think too much about a support network when I left sport. In fact, I used to pride myself on my independence and all the goals I achieved all on my own. Now I see how that held me back from recreating success beyond sport. You see, it does take a supportive network to achieve most dreams. No one truly does it well alone. All the greatest achievements were achieved through teamwork. 

It might be necessary to be pro-active in creating a new network of friends and like-minded people that can relate to your new career and interests. Hang around with supportive people that belief in you and your dreams. As you grow and develop you might even find that you outgrow some friends and make new ones. You may currently have people in your immediate circle who shoot down your ideas and goals. They often have your best interest at heart and may not want you to risk failure. As an athlete, you know that the more you fail the more you will succeed. 

The more people you have in your network, and know about your goals and dream, the more likely you will achieve what you want to achieve. Start sharing your dream with others. You will be amazed at how you come across people who know somebody who knows somebody that can help you. 

How can you create a supportive environment for yourself? What networking opportunities are available to you? Take note that when it comes to networking and developing business relationships, think about what you can give more than what you can get. Be supportive and you will gain support. Be a good friend and you will gain friends. 

Create a whole new supportive community and find the joy and passion within your new career. Like-minded people will help you to push through the setbacks and persist until you do achieve your goals. Who do you need to hang around to start realizing your dreams? 

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Moving Beyond Limitations

By: Annette Huygens-Tholen

As a coach, I spend my time helping people overcome problems and create better results for themselves. The work I do is not about necessarily fixing something that is broke. Its about looking at constant improvement. 
A common misconception when we have a problem is that something within ourselves is broken and if we can find the answer, we can fix it and everything will be ok. That mindset is limiting because instead of striving to be better we get stuck in the same pattern constantly fixing and re-fixing the same thing, never moving forward just staying on the same playing field. We fail to acknowledge that there is more, more outside of this mindset, more for us, more to our lives and more for us to achieve our potential is limitless.
So think about that right now-what is an area you feel stuck in? You might be generalizing like career, relationships or health. Or you might be specifically stuck somewhere on something you specifically want to improve.

Our problems are problems of the imagination. Our problems have solutions, solutions of the imagination. Your beliefs and beliefs about whether you can or you cant do something happen at an unconscious level. You might be taking in feedback from times you didnt achieve something and that will determine whether you do it again. For example, you believe you cant do something because you didnt do it before and so you might not even try. This is an automatic response without you even consciously thinking about it.

Beliefs are aspects of life that we believe to be true. I believe that nothing is actually true, right or real. I believe that we all have our own concept of reality. What I believe determines my reality - what you believe determines your reality. Beliefs are something you shaped and created in your early childhood years, however, with some understanding you can change the ones that limit you and open yourself up to a whole new way of thinking. Are you ready to open yourself up to a new reality?

You can change your reality by changing your interpretation of your experiences. What you decide when something happens will determine where you go. When you experience something you will decide whether its an opportunity or a setback and that will then influence how you respond. In turn, your belief structure will be shaped by this interpretation of that experience. You can change a bad experience into a good one by changing the way you view the event.

A simple example to demonstrate this is in selling. What happens when someone says no or rejects your offer? Does this mean you are no good, or your product is not useful OR does it mean that with each no you are closer to a yes? Does each no discourage you or encourage you towards your success?

So often when we think about what we want we limit ourselves. We think we gotta be real. Or we have to make this our goal because thats reality, thats really all I can do. You wouldnt want to aim higher and disappoint yourself would you? There is nothing wrong with going for it and maybe falling short of the mark but at least you are going for it. 

To do this, you have to get over what you rationally think is right. There is no absolute truth; its just what you see and what you put out as reality. To move beyond your limitations you have to create your new reality, believe in it and yourself and rid yourself of your old limiting beliefs. It is possible to go for gold and to create and reach your dreams.

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Volleyball Voices: Womens Beach Volleyball Olympian Annette Huygens Tholen On How To Build A Dream Team For Success Beyond Sport

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Australian Olympian Annette Huygens Tholen On How To

Build A Dream Team For Success Beyond Sport

By: Annette Huygens-Tholen

Athletes are used to having all kinds of people with various skills supporting them to become the best they can be, to fulfill the dream. It is no different in life beyond sport, retired athletes dont have to do it all on their own. They can benefit from creating their own dream team to help get a new business off the ground, gain ground in an unfamiliar industry, manage projects within a corporation or to enjoy the lifestyle they desire. Here are the type of people I want on my team to create the same level of success enjoyed in sportor greater: 

#1: Coach

A personal or professional coach can teach new skills, train to optimize talents and keep one accountable. Have you ever tried to stay in the same shape or do drills on your own at the same level you did with a coach? Its hard! Behind every high-achiever there is always someone on the sidelines guiding and supporting them with their wisdom and experience. 

Imagine how things might be if you still had someone in your career, and in your relationships, to give you a game plan and help you prepare to play! What if you had someone you respected by your side every step of the way to point you in the right direction and tell you exactly what you need to do in order to achieve your personal dreams? There are many styles of coaches away from the sports field, including life coaches, business coaches, strategy coaches, relationship coaches and mindset coaches. 

A coach will keep you moving forward from one step to the next in the right direction until you get where you want to go. A coach will ensure you learn everything you need to from your mistakes and setbacks so they dont repeat themselves. That one person is always there to keep you focused on solutions and improving your weaknesses. 

#2: Mentor(s)

Having a mentor is usually a less formal arrangement than having a coach. Many successful people are happy and willing to share their knowledge and experience with another keen to get into the same business or profession. As an Olympian I have mentored many an upcoming athlete by sharing my experiences, from life on the world tour to training practices. 

Getting a mentor that has succeeded in an area of business that you wish to emulate gives you a perfect opportunity to model that success. To get a mentor all you have to do is ask! Many people are flattered to be asked. As long as it fits in with their schedule, they will very likely agree to mentor you to some degree. And if you persist, and use your team synergy skills you just learned, you may even have yourself a life-long mentor. 

#3: Support Crew/Network 

Who supports your dream? As athletes, most of us are lucky enough to have a kind of extended team of people who follow our progress and even get caught up in our dreams and ambitions, helping us get there in any way they can. These are not just cheerleaders. In the world of business, this is your network. 

Surround yourself with people that are willing to stand behind what you do because they believe in you. Go to events, conferences and clubs where you can rub shoulders with like-minded professionals, especially those with similar goals or life paths with whom you can go the distance together. This becomes a mutual support team, a formal or informal group of people, whom you admire, respect, and learn from. Why hang around people that want to pull you down? Ideally, your time is spent with people on the same wave-length who hold you up to a high standard of achievement. Even better, they have surpassed your level of success and inspire you to shoot beyond what you thought possible. 

As you grow and transition, developing a new career, you may start to mix in different circles, drifting away from some of your friends. That is a natural cycle. Now that you have left your sporting career behind, you will need to consider the balance between maintaining contact with that lifestyle and creating a new one to continue to develop a network that supports you, and possibly even your new identity. Its not something you need to do dramatically and cut ties with life-long friends, as Ive seen some people do. You may, however, need to make tough decisions if a person is constantly draining your energy or is holding you back. Be with the people who energize you and help lift your game. 

# 4: Specialized Support

In sport, there are always doctors, chiropractors, physical therapy specialists, sponsors, media, even concessions staff on the sidelines making sure you get the proper nourishment and replenishment. Who do you need to help you achieve your dream in life beyond sport? They probably wont just be there waiting for you in the wings when you get started. You have to go out and find the right professionals with the skills you need to launch your new career or reach your life goals. Find those with specialized knowledge that you dont have. If you are going into business for yourself, think about what kind of specialized support you will need. Do you need partners? Investors? Do you need to have referral partners in another organization to refer business to each other? Do you need financial support staff, an accountant, a financial planner or advisor? As you put together your dream team, you may find that staff or advisors that specialize in accounting, marketing, administration, internet and website development are critical to your careers growth. 

Start working out who you need on your own dream team to drive you toward success. 

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Annette Huygens Tholen is a former international beach volleyball player and participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. She experienced the difficulties of transition from sport and is now a Master Results Coach and International speaker using her learnings and experience to empower athletes to reproduce emotional and financial success in their life after sport. Annette also teaches seminars for the world's biggest NLP Coaching and Training Organisation -The Christopher Howard Companies. For more information on how to successfully transition after sport, please visit www.annetteffect.com and sign up for the free mini-Ecourse.

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Girls Volleyball Skills and Strategies: How to Win During Your Warm Ups

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Girls Volleyball Skills and Strategies: How to Win During Your Warm Ups
By April Chapple

It's the beginning of the volleyball game and by this time you've had your team prep talk right?

Your coach has given everybody the scouting report and has told you pretty much who does what on the other team. Well now that its before the game and  now that you have the time, there is one more thing you have to do. Open your eyes and Watch the other team during their warmup!

a. Watch and Identify who you might have to block in front of you.

b. Watch How the other volleyball team players hit the ball.

c. What volleyball players hit the volleyball on the way down?

d. Which volleyball players have slow arm swings?

e. Who are the volleyball players that have a fast or slow wrist snap, in other words do their hits go down or go long in the volleyball court.

f. Which volleyball players always face cross court when they want to hit cross court or do they hit over their shoulder to disguise their shot.

Who are the volleyball players that always call for a high ball set and which ones  hit the shoot set as well?

Look for clues in the volleyball warmup as to what your opposing hitters like to do...especially when there is no block.  Then be Already thinking about how you need to block that person or how late you need to wait in your block squat before you block jump against a particular hitter.

You can do the same thing in the serving warm up.

As you are shagging your ball - keep an eye on WHERE volleyball players on the opposing starting team tend to always serve. If the left side hitter has served most of her warm up serves cross court - you can bet that she isnt going to pull too many surprises in the game and do something completely different than what you saw her do in warm up.

Volleyball players love to practice the skill that they perform the best in warm ups.

If you are alert you can anticipate a lot of what a player is planning on doing-during the volleyball game.

If she serves (5) five volleyballs cross court and 1 (one) down the line - what are you going to tell your volleyball team to look out for- that cross court serve first-right?

The last few minutes of the warm up and before you line up to start the game YOU can be talking to your teammates and sharing with them what your observations are.

"Hey Gal Sal just hit the last 5 (five)  volleyballs cross court, so whoever is blocking her be ready for that..." Why is this communication important?

1. This shows the volleyball coach that you are thinking. ...and sharing -which makes their job easier. That's what leaders do, they keep their eyes open and observe what's going on in their surroundings and then they share those observations with their team. And let's face it brownie points are Always good in that area.

2. You are also less likely to be taken by surprise during the volleyball game by what happens on the court because you've started looking and analyzing (aka warming up your brain) in warmups BEFORE the game even started.

So from now on in warmups you're not keeping your head down, grooving to the pre-game warm up music and concentrating on "just...doing my thang by just shagging and running back to hit" in warmups.

You are aware, alert and helping your volleyball team by seeing, sharing and communicating what the opposing volleyball players on the other team are doing. This volleyball skill is preparing you mentally to Anticipate what is going to happen in the volleyball game.

That's how you Win in Warmups!

Remember the ball is in Your court.

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Girls High School and Club Volleyball Skills: How You Use Pepper Warmup To Improve Your Defensive Skill

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How You Use Pepper Warmup To Improve Your Defensive Skill

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There are many girls volleyball players that don't know how to use the 

Pepper Warm up Drill as a way to improve their volleyball game. 

Below are 5 ways elite volleyball players use "Pepper" as a way to improve their volleyball 

defensive skill. 

Volleyball Tip #1. To Improve Ball Control volleyball skills.

Volleyball Tip #2. To Improve Serve Receive volleyball technique.

I think that Pepper is the number one way for indoor volleyball players to improve their volleyball control skills...if they know how to do it. You have to be aware of why you are Peppering in the first place. If not, then it just becomes a way to raise your body temperature...some.

a. When YOU set--whoever sets should be working on proper volleyball setting skill, form and technique.

The Goal- the volleyball should go right to your partner without them taking more than one step in any direction to chase your ball.

b. When Your partner passes back--concentration should be on using excellent form for serve 

receive and free ball passing--especially now since this is an easy ball.

The Goal

- first to pass the volleyball so she/he can hit the ball right back without taking more than 

one step in any direction. Secondly, bump setting practice for accuracy so each and every ball 

goes right back to above the hitters extended hitting arm. 

c. When You hit. You hit a controlled 1/2 to 3/4 speed down ball right to your partner. 

In this instance you have a controlled situation in which to improve your skill and practice the 

finer points of your armswing. Take advantage of it. Practice your armswing technique. 

Concentrate -on "reaching" raising your elbow and hitting high while controlling the ball speed. 

Don't hit low by your ear just because there's no net! 

If you hit low in Pepper it means you will generally tend to hit low in hitting warm ups and then again in your volleyball game. 

Trust me--it all transfers. What you do in warmup transfers to what you will do in a game. 

Your body is recording every movement you make it do-so pledge to yourself to do the 

volleyball skill and the movements the right way.

The Goal-

To hit the spot you are aiming for-which in Pepper is right to your partner-so that she doesn't 

have to move more than one step UNLESS you choose to mix up your attack and include a tip 

to your partner. Highly recommended after you have improved your ball control. 

d. Your partner digs--focus on being down in your defensive position 

before your partner hits the ball meaning by the time they make contact. 

Because Pepper partners are relatively close together you will automatically be developing 

quick reflexes. 

Here is where you practice combining quick reflexes with BALL CONTROL. 

React quickly...then control the ball. React quickly then c-o-n-t-r-o-l the ball. 

The Goal- Learning to absorb a hard hit ball at close range and delivering that ball 

(softly, gently people) in control to your target without making them move more than one step. 

Fight to perform the volleyball skill correctly and to maintain control of the ball.

3. To Increase Your Range in your Defensive Volleyball Skill.

Advanced players can challenge their partners (you both need to agree to make the drill work) 

by tipping the ball further and further out of reach--the more of these balls you get in

pepper--the more you will get in the game. It all transfers. 

Or by hitting a 1/2 to 3/4 speed down ball a foot or 2 to the right or left of the defender will 

increase your range of harder hit defensive balls that you dig up around you. 

4. To Narrow Your Focus and Concentration

Many times Pepper warm ups take place in a crowded environment. 

Either with 25 teammates on either side of you, or near that net divider that separates the 

courts in a volleyball tournament, fans that walk up and down the aisles, team benches, believe 

it or not this is a great practice opportunity- to narrow your focus and increase volleyball 

concentration skills so that it doesn't matter what happens around you ...the world can come 

to an end but your focus is only on the volleyball. 

5. To Increase Your Reactions and Reduce Fear of the Ball

As your ball control gets better then you and your Pepper partner should agree to challenge 

each other to make each other better players. I had fantastic pepper partners in college 

(Beverly Robinson) and in Italy (Paula Weishoff, Elaina Oden) who would run me ragged, pushing 

me and peppering all over the court in pre game warm ups. This was how my defensive

volleyball skills improved tremendously. 

When you get to the point when you are exchanging 10-12 pass, set, hit combinations in a row 

Stop and both of you commit to hitting harder at each other. About 3/4 the speed of your 

regularly hit spike-BUT YOUR GOAL is to still work up to as many pass-set-hit exchanges as 

you can while controlling the ball. Your digs should still be going right to each other.

Always work on improving your individual volleyball skills, remember the ball is in Your hands.

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