Nikola Grbic
If we can accept the fact that the setter is the brain of each volleyball team, then one can rightfully say about Nikola Grbic that he is the game’s ideologist of Serbia & Montenegro. No medal won by the “Blue Team” since 1995 was conquered without Nikola Grbic. The best player of Europe in 1997 grew up in a family already owning a medal, namely from the European Championships in 1975 in Belgrade. His father, Milo, universal player during his entire career, succeeded in pulling both of his sons, Nikola and his older brother Vladimir, into all secrets of volleyball. Even if they had wanted to, the Grbic juniors could not have wished for a better teacher. But the father was demanding.
Win five big points
I know this seems a little bit complicated, but it’s not. Just read the explanation and everything will be clearer:
First team serves constanly to second team.
First team have all posibilities for attack (zone 2, zone 3, zone 4, zone 6). Team should win a point.
When first team finishes their attack, coach throws a ball high to setter in the other team. Setter should set high ball to zones 2, 4 and 6 so the players in first team can perform block with three players.
Hard to win a point
On one side of the net, setter spikes the ball to libero.
Libero passes the ball to setter and setter sets to zone 2 for opposite hitter. Opposite hitter should win the point against two players in block.
When attack is finished, on the other side of net attack begins.
On the other side setter spikes the ball to libero.
Teaching and coaching volleyball
Before you can effectively teach the skills and strategies of volleyball, a coach must understand how the athletes learn. A coach’s role is to ensure that proper techniques are presented and that the athletes enjoy their participation in the sport. This requires motivation on the coach’s part and on the athlete’s part.
Both coach and athlete must have an understanding of why they are involved in the sport volleyball. That means that a coach must know why he is teaching the selected skills and also investigate the expectations and goals of the athletes involved in the program.
Three stages of learning are recognized and labeled beginning, intermediate, and advanced.
Turkey, Slovenia, Estonia and the Czech Republic going home
September 5, 2009. On day 4 of the 2009 CEV Men’s European Championships, Slovenia, Estonia, the Czech Republic as well as Turkey booked their ticket home as 4th ranked teams in their Pools. The other twelve squads move on to the Playoff Round, which will take place from Tuesday to Thursday in Istanbul and Izmir.
In their last game of the tournament Greeks played against last ranked Slovenia. Even when the Slovenians dominated, the Greeks played great at the end of each set and deservedly celebrated finishing first in Pool C.
How to select a team
The first practice sessions should be designed to review individual skills and drills for basic play. Conducting the first practice sessions often proves to be the most difficult task the coach encounters during the year. It is during these early sessions, that the coach begins to look for those experienced players who are already possess a high level of skill and game ability and for those players whom the coach feels have the greatest skill potential and coach ability. However, a prudent coach will develop a sound method to select his/her players while keeping in mind that no two players develop at the same pace physically, mentally, or emotionally.
Coaching style
Once a coach decides upon his coaching objectives, he needs to plan how to achieve those objectives. There are three recognized coaching styles.
The first method entails the coach making all the decisions and demanding that players follow instructions without asking questions. This is described as the “authoritarian” style. This style may help the athletes learn to follow orders, but will not necessarily help the young athletes develop thinking skills and personal qualities.
Another style, which may seem easier to adopt if the coach has little experience, is to let the players run the program. This is the easiest style to put into practice. There is little danger of the coach making uneducated or embarrassing mistakes. Unfortunately, the greatest shortcoming with this style is that the coach will not be helping the players learn skills and values.
