Volleyball Block Training Learn 3 Ways Blockers Stay Ready At The Net
Volleyball Block Training: Learn 3 ways to block more balls by staying an arm's length away from the net, stay square to the net and how to take cross court.
Volleyball Block Training: Stay an arm's length away from the net, stay square to the net, take hitter's cross court, read hitters early to position yourself to block faster. (Aversen)
What's a good blocker volleyball ready position?
stay an arm's length away from the net
stay square to the net
take an outside hitter's cross court away if you don't have a specific game plan
read the hitter earlier to position yourself earlier
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Volleyball Block Training: Stay an arm's length away from the net, stay square to the net, take hitter's cross court, read hitters early to position yourself to block faster. (Aversen)
A Volleyball Block Training Guide To A Better Blocker Volleyball Ready Position
Volleyball Block Training: Good volleyball block positioning is essential for being able to consistently stop an attacker's ball at the net. (CE Andersen)
Volleyball Block Training Stay Half Your Arm's Length Away From The Net
Volleyball Block Training: And while you are blocking a volleyball at the net, you always want to know how far you are away from the net you are when you step away from it. (Bill Shaner)
When you're blocking a volleyball you want to position yourself..half your arm’s length away from the net.
Volleyball Block Training: Stay Squared to The Net - You want your hands to stay just above your shoulders, with your palms facing the net. (Avinash Kunnath)
Remember this, it’s very important that your shoulders remain squared to the net as well.
Since your shoulders get your arms over the net, and to utilizeevery inch of your arm length when you are blocking, you want to make sure your shoulders are facing the net.
You want your hands to stay just above your shoulders, with your palms facing the net.
Volleyball Block Training: Stay Squared to The Net - You want your hands to stay just above your shoulders, with your palms facing the net.
It takes time to get your hands up and over the net so your blocking ready position for your hands should be at a midwaypoint sothat you don't waste precious time bringing them from alow position.
It takes time to get your hands up and over the net so your blocking ready position for your hands should be at a midway point so that you don't waste precious time bringing them from a low position.
In other words when you are blocking a volleyball at the net don’t have your hands down by your waist.
Volleyball Block Training: In other words when you are blocking a volleyball at the net don’t have your hands down by your waist. (Gov Neil Abercrombie)
Volleyball Block Training Take A Outside Hitter's Cross Court
Volleyball Block Training: Unless your coach has established a different strategy, you want to line up in front of the hitter so that your block will take away her cross court hit. (Aversen)
Blocker Volleyball Ready Position: Take A Outside Hitter's Cross Court: Line up in front of the hitter to block the extension of your spiker's arm and take away their angle.
Blocker Volleyball Ready Position: Take A Outside Hitter's Cross Court: Most hitter's hit cross court more than they hit down the line because there's more volleyball court area to hit to. (ShakesKC)
On the other hand, let’s say your spiker's approach is more of a straight line, meaning they haven’t swung outside the court as much at an angle to take their spike approach.
When this happens there’s a greater chance that the hitter plans to hit the ball down the line.
So now you want to make sure that your body is squared up in front of them, and that you are prepared to block the extension of their arm.
You can make yourself into a better blocker if you can
identify early enough the difference between what it looks like when the opposing team's hitter takes a cross court approach and
what it looks like when they decide to hit down the line
so you can position yourself earlier to block accordingly.
You can make yourself into a better blocker if you can identify early enough the difference between what it looks like when the opposing team's hitter takes a cross court approach and what it looks like when they decide to to hit down the line.
And can position yourself accordingly.
Here's something to do in your practice, when your team breaks up into two squads that have to compete against each other.
When you can identify what the hitters on your team do when they are about to hit cross court and you start blocking their balls pretty consistently, it won’t take long to trust your instincts and to start reading and blocking the hitters on opposing teams.
If you're a B team or JV player trying to make varsity next year...your goal should be to complete 1000 reps a day of at least three of the basic skills on your own...volleyball passing, serving and setting should be at the top of the list.
Volleyball Block Training: Where Do You Go From Here?
What do you need to do now? You have three options:
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