Teaching defensive skills

 

After teaching the basic defensive skills we have to start developing the specialistic skills that lead this technique on the real game:  the digging technique and the defensive actions.. We will talk about this last type ad his varieties.
Previously we talked about the serve as a skill that doesn’t deal  with the situation, now we will focus on a skill that makes the situation his way of being. In fact the basic techniques ( set and dig) in defence are used only to face slow balls and not too powerful, instead it will be impossible to standardize the use of the movements in a preset situation, but the skill will be applied according to the specific situation that we are facing during the game. It is necessary to keep that in mind even during the set up of your practice.

Serve teaching and development

Serve is an atypical element within a situational sport like volleyball. It’s indeed the only technique that’s not affected by external influences and that puts the athlete in a stable  and standardized situation regarding the ball. In this lesson we present the most common techniques of serve (float- jump float- jump spin/top spin) pinpointing the characteristics and offering some didactic progressions, as well as analyzing the development starting from the athlete in the young age to the senior athlete.