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Post by donneyp on Jul 26, 2014 23:01:24 GMT -5
I never practiced setting 7 hours a day for 9 days in a row. Ever. I doubt that Robyn Ah Mow, or Lindsey Berg, or Alisha Glass, or Lloy Ball, or Jeff Stork, or Dusty Dvorak, or even Debbie Green when she played for crazy Arie Sellinger did. Well, maybe Debbie did back in the mid-to-late 70s because Sellinger was one of the crazy control coaches who learned from the Japanese endless repetition method of training back in the early 70s. The philosophy that you can turn anyone into an elite-level setter through a brute force attack of endless practice hours and endless practice reps is stupid. Setting at an elite level is about decision-making, quick reactions, and situational assessment and awareness measured in split-seconds. It isn't about adjusting the angle of your elbows from 52.5 degrees to 47.5 degrees, or setting the ball with a perfect arc 10 out of 10 times in a row. Or taking the correct number of steps to get to a ball that is passed to 12 feet. Or the exact amount of hip rotation when making a spin move to the left front. We ran a 1 day setters clinic at my college last Saturday. 9:30am-5pm with an hour for lunch. The 31 setters were 12-17, boys and girls, mostly novices, a few who hadn't started playing for a team yet. After 6.5 hours of setting they were all going strong and most wanted more. If my novice setters in NJ can make it through the day, the elite setters who go to the setters academy are going to be just fine.
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Post by ncaavballguru on Jul 26, 2014 23:56:51 GMT -5
I never practiced setting 7 hours a day for 9 days in a row. Ever. I doubt that Robyn Ah Mow, or Lindsey Berg, or Alisha Glass, or Lloy Ball, or Jeff Stork, or Dusty Dvorak, or even Debbie Green when she played for crazy Arie Sellinger did. Well, maybe Debbie did back in the mid-to-late 70s because Sellinger was one of the crazy control coaches who learned from the Japanese endless repetition method of training back in the early 70s. The philosophy that you can turn anyone into an elite-level setter through a brute force attack of endless practice hours and endless practice reps is stupid. Setting at an elite level is about decision-making, quick reactions, and situational assessment and awareness measured in split-seconds. It isn't about adjusting the angle of your elbows from 52.5 degrees to 47.5 degrees, or setting the ball with a perfect arc 10 out of 10 times in a row. Or taking the correct number of steps to get to a ball that is passed to 12 feet. Or the exact amount of hip rotation when making a spin move to the left front. This is, by far, the most idiotic thing you've ever posted, and that is saying a lot. No, it isn't.
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Post by ncaavballguru on Jul 26, 2014 23:59:59 GMT -5
I never practiced setting 7 hours a day for 9 days in a row. Ever. I doubt that Robyn Ah Mow, or Lindsey Berg, or Alisha Glass, or Lloy Ball, or Jeff Stork, or Dusty Dvorak, or even Debbie Green when she played for crazy Arie Sellinger did. Well, maybe Debbie did back in the mid-to-late 70s because Sellinger was one of the crazy control coaches who learned from the Japanese endless repetition method of training back in the early 70s. The philosophy that you can turn anyone into an elite-level setter through a brute force attack of endless practice hours and endless practice reps is stupid. Setting at an elite level is about decision-making, quick reactions, and situational assessment and awareness measured in split-seconds. It isn't about adjusting the angle of your elbows from 52.5 degrees to 47.5 degrees, or setting the ball with a perfect arc 10 out of 10 times in a row. Or taking the correct number of steps to get to a ball that is passed to 12 feet. Or the exact amount of hip rotation when making a spin move to the left front. We ran a 1 day setters clinic at my college last Saturday. 9:30am-5pm with an hour for lunch. The 31 setters were 12-17, boys and girls, mostly novices, a few who hadn't started playing for a team yet. After 6.5 hours of setting they were all going strong and most wanted more. If my novice setters in NJ can make it through the day, the elite setters who go to the setters academy are going to be just fine. Yeah, comparing your one day novice setter clinic to a 9-day SPVB setter camp is like comparing pelcj11's ability to hit a slide to Dani Scott-Aruda's ability to hit a slide.
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Post by volleyguy on Jul 27, 2014 0:03:21 GMT -5
We ran a 1 day setters clinic at my college last Saturday. 9:30am-5pm with an hour for lunch. The 31 setters were 12-17, boys and girls, mostly novices, a few who hadn't started playing for a team yet. After 6.5 hours of setting they were all going strong and most wanted more. If my novice setters in NJ can make it through the day, the elite setters who go to the setters academy are going to be just fine. Yeah, comparing your one day novice setter clinic to a 9-day SPVB setter camp is like comparing pelcj11's ability to hit a slide to Dani Scott-Aruda's ability to hit a slide. I get the feeling that you're not really a guru!
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Post by Paulj on Jul 27, 2014 3:59:25 GMT -5
Perhaps my feedback was a bit confusing. The 7 hours per day was broken into three sessions. Two and a half hours in the morning, two and a half hours in the afternoon and two hours in the evening. My daughter slept between every session.
And let me add one other fact. I was amazed...AMAZED... at how kind the athletes were to each other.
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Post by sasa on Jul 27, 2014 4:54:55 GMT -5
paulj, please check your messages.
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