The VolleyBrains Weekly: Spikers need to...spike.

Hall of Famer said so.

January 08, 2023

Welcome to The VolleyBrains Weekly, we don't have a quick-witted intro this week, today we're all business.😎

Let's get this one started.

Here's what we've got this week

  • Kelly Sheffield looks back

  • A CLASSIC Hall of Famer clip

  • John Cook sees the bigger picture

  • The art of...seam receiving

Kelly Sheffield looks back.

As mentioned last week, my favorite question to ask coaches we interview for VolleyBrains is this one:

"What advice would you give yourself as a starting coach? A piece of advice that is so clear and logical for you now, but that you had to develop over the years."

This was Kelly Sheffield's answer:

You can check out our talk with Kelly over here.

Spikers need to solve bad sets!

This is an oldie but a goodie. The clip below is famous in Italian volleyball, we cleaned up the audio a bit and added some subs. 

Julio Velasco was the head coach of the 'golden generation' of the '90s. A time when the Italian male national team reigned supreme in international volleyball.

Today Julio is the mentor of the Italian youth program.

(if you're a native English speaker, and a bit weirded out by subtitles.😇 No worries, watch till the end, because you probably will share this clip with your team in the near future.)

JC has a knack for seeing the bigger picture.

The first video call ever we did for VolleyBrains was with John Cook.

He had a lot of valuable insights to share...

With a whole lot of competing going on all the time...even between coaches, especially between coaches😅.

Take this moment to realize that we are part of something special. 😉

SC Potsdam's head coach on seam receiving.

Guillermo Naranjo Hernandez is the head coach of German top female pro team SC Potsdam. 

For VolleyBrains, Guillermo analyzed 3 practice sessions, a total of 4+ hours of practice material. All this was featured over here.

This is an excerpt from one of the practice clips...

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