Volleyball Training Solutions June Newsletter

 Fall Coaching Interviews for VTS Members

Kevin Hambly-Illinois

This fall, VTS will begin a series of interviews with the top coaches in the country.  This will be a 10-15 minute session that will examine coaching philosophy, skill development and program organization.  The goal is to make these sessions a high level discussion of coaching skills.  We won't go into the often discussed topics of rankings, RPI, which conference is better, etc.  This will be a discussion designed to help the coaching community become more acquainted with how high level coaches approach their craft.  We will provide VTS members a chance to interact and pose questions to these successful coaches

VTS at the Ohio Coaches Clinic

I'll be speaking and presenting Volleyball Training Solutions at the Ohio Volleyball Coaches Association Clinic the last weekend in July   I'd enjoy meeting some of the Ohio VTS members.  Living in Denver for a couple years now, I'm going to have to re-adjust to the humidity of Ohio in the summer.

Video Schedule

We will be on a limited schedule in the month of July relative to adding video to the VTS library.  Once we get things going in the fall training sessions, VTS staff will once again be out to video the top programs as they begin to prepare for the season.

How Do We Learn?

One of my recent Facebook posts was an article on the Khan Academy: Link: Khan Academy-USA Today  The focus is on how information for students might be presented in a more effective manner.  There is no reason to think that volleyball athletes are any different.  I am convinced that the use of video and pictures are not being used sufficiently to support information and provide feedback.  I would encourage you to be creative in how you present information.  Coaches tend to be pretty good speakers, but sometimes other forms of communication is critical to the learning process.  Video is just another form of communicating.   Dartfish does a wonderful job of creating a format of both video and pictures that can be used effectively to providing a visual of how skills are executed in a proper manner.  I'll be sending out to members a link to download skills showing sequential images of skills.  An idea might be to copy into a poster format and post in your training facility.

Referral Program Coming

Expanding our membership is important to continue to provide quality service.  In that regard, we will be initiating a referral program for VTS members in the upcoming weeks.  On the VTS membership page, there is a place for "Referred By".  We will monitor referrals and establish a discount for the referring member.  More on this in a few days.

Team Folders

A service we will be providing in the fall is a private team video collection.  You can upload video for viewing by your team or fans.  This might include scout video, post match video that is edited using Dartfish Easy Tag (which is a wonderful app for your tablet), or highlight video.  Contact VTS if this is of interest for your program.