2016 AVCA Club Director of the Year (KIVA):
Assumption (KY) High School Head Coach,
2012 AVCA National High School Coach of the Year;
19x State Championship Coach; Club Director and Coach at Asics Kiva Club
Get a variety of drills to warm-up your team and push them physically, all the while getting a lot of touches on the ball.
Ron Kordes shows seven drills, with variations, that will help coaches elevate their normal practice warm-up routine. These drills focus on being goal-oriented and competitive, which will help increase the intensity level for your players. Not only will athletes warm up and work on skills, they will also learn how to compete and prepare themselves for game situations.
Ball Control Drills
This drill series consists of small groups ranging from 2-4 people per group that work on footwork and ball control. The drills cover skills such as passing and movement. Coach Kordes demonstrates how to make each drill competitive. This allows players to either compete against each other or shoot for a particular goal. Great for the beginning of practice where players warm-up, work on skills and start competing right away.
Pepper Series
These drills progress from small group drills and work on passing, hitting, blocking, and covering. Coach Kordes explains how each drill can be tailored to fit your needs. Each drill allows room for many skills to work on and for players of all skill levels. The drills in this section can be both cooperative and competitive. Even though these drills are common warm-up drills, they'll spice up the intensity of your practices.
The start to your practices will be more lively if you apply these competitive strategies to your warm up drills. Coach Kordes shows a variety of warm up drills perfect for any level of play. The competitive additions can create a whole new game-like atmosphere for your team's practices.
51 minutes. 2016.
VD-05012B: with Ron Kordes,
2016 AVCA Club Director of the Year (KIVA):
Assumption (KY) High School Head Coach,
2012 AVCA National High School Coach of the Year;
19x State Championship Coach; Club Director and Coach at Asics Kiva Club
Ron Kordes teaches you how to create drills that will help increase player development and competitiveness in practice. He presents a dozen drills, along with the scoring standards he uses in his gym, that can be adapted to fit your team's needs. These drills will improve your offensive efficiency and defensive competitiveness.
You will learn how to increase intensity in drills, make them goal-oriented and keep them competitive - giving players the best chance to focus on quality contacts. Coach Kordes defines the purpose of each drill so that you can understand them better.
Offense Drills
Train your players to be aggressive and effective attackers. The drills are goal-oriented and competitive to encourage players to practice with intensity. These drills will help your players improve ball control, hand contact, attack location and out-of-system attacking.
The Queen B Drill Series demonstrates small group and 6v6 drills that work on attackers hitting off of the blockers' hands to score. Using this drill helps take the fear out attacking at the block. The drills put a large focus on players attacking to the 1 and 5 zones. The main goal is to stay out of the 6 as a hitter. This is important as most teams have their best defensive player playing the 6.
Defense Drills
This section includes defensive drill that emphasize blocking, reading and digging. Your players will learn proper digging technique and how to make good defensive contacts. Most of the defensive drills focus on training the back row diggers. These drills work on digging cross court and line shots as players focus on getting good defensive contacts.
Coach Kordes teaches blocking posture and how to penetrate over the net. Blocking drills work on teaching blockers to read hitters' line of approach and get into good blocking position. Blockers who can pick up the attacker's line of approach put themselves in a better position to disrupt the attack.
In all drills, Coach Kordes creates a competitive atmosphere where players compete or meet a goal to finish the drill.
Team Drills
This section contains a few drills that put it all together. All drills are competitive where players are competing to get a certain goal or score. The drills also involve error correction to help players atone for themselves.
First ball kills and transition offense play a crucial role in the game of volleyball today. Seeing proven drills and techniques designed to emphasize these areas is invaluable. Competitive offensive and defensive drills will put your players in pressure situations where discipline and focus is paramount. Coach Kordes' drills will help improve your team's offensive efficiency and defensive competitiveness.
62 minutes. 2016.
VD-05012C: with Ron Kordes,
2016 AVCA Club Director of the Year (KIVA):
Assumption (KY) High School Head Coach,
2012 AVCA National High School Coach of the Year;
19x State Championship Coach; Club Director and Coach at Asics Kiva Club
The best practice sessions are the ones that include game-like drills that focus on player development. This video takes it to a whole new level by adding a competitive culture.
Ron Kordes, 2012 AVCA National High School Coach of the Year, runs his state champion high school team through 14 team drills. He provides insight into ways to customize the drills to meet your team's skill level while building a stronger and more cohesive unit. You can use these drills to focus on player movement without the ball, such as block coverage and out-of-system sets.
All the drills presented in this video are team drills with 6-on-6 play. Team drills allow each athlete to learn the game by playing volleyball instead of breaking into individual skills. By providing goal-oriented focal points to each drill, Coach Kordes explains how to reinvigorate your team to improve in a specific area while also working on their overall skill-set within a scrimmage environment.
Ball Control
The first few drills focus on team warm-ups and ball control. Even the simplest team warm-up drills have players competing for a common goal or against each other. These drills work on skills such as ball control, hand passing, team defense, out of system play and conditioning.
Team Concepts
As players master individual skills, the next evolution in their game is becoming a valuable member of the team strategy. Coach Kordes uses competitive situations to train athletes to be a more effective teammate.
Much of the time in these drills is spent attacking offensively in a 6 on 6 situation. Here, you'll be able to learn drills that help with out-of-system play. Your players are held accountable on getting a terminating swing while out-of-system. The Initiator/Terminator Drill puts focus on certain hitters and getting them to score more. You can tailor the drill to target the athlete you feel needs the most work.
The worst nightmare of many coaches is seeing their players commit unforced errors in a match. Coach Kordes shows drills that help make players accountable for their errors by putting game-like pressure on them to excel.
Other skills that get work in this section include serve receive and serving. Coach Kordes takes a common servers vs. passers drill and tweaks it to make it more competitive than normal.
Play Action Games
This section presents game-action drills to put players in situations they'll face in a real match. In 6-on-6 style play, you will learn how to prepare your players for:
- Finishing a set or game - Successful teams need to be able to finish games when they get into the 20s. Strategies are discussed for the end of a set situation and drills focus on putting pressure on players to limit unforced errors.
- Side-out offense - In order to win regularly, teams need to be successful scoring on first opportunities.
- Battling back from a deficit - Coaches can't expect players to have the mindset to battle back from a deficit without giving them the experience in practice. The competitive nature of the Reverse Make It Take It and 5 Sets to 25 drills helps replicate the feeling of needing to get back into the game on the scoreboard.
Coach Kordes shares his experience to teach you how to generate healthy competition in a typical scrimmage environment. He provides insight to help you customize this set of drills to help your team focus on their needs and push them to the next level.
"I appreciated the bird's eye view of the drills while watching strong players set a good example of what can be achieved in a simple scrimmage environment. The video shows how all the players can interact to stay involved and active." - Customer Review
82 minutes. 2016.