External Focus in Volleyball

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Timeline

Changed serving: standing in the middle only and hitting short and deep slot serve.

Changed serving: some back to jump serving and others to just more deep serves

Changed serving: just get it in vs. tough and ok to miss

Sept 7 post match Min Manketo: drinks with Diane and James: psychological

aspects of player problem solving, conceptual coaching, she saw our biggest issues

was that our players were afraid to make errors, james saw our serving as an

issue. Her setter isnt great but she modified the mentality of the hitters and

passers to compensate for it. Learn to hit anything and learn to control the first

touch.

Sept 21 CWU at home

Sept 19 NNU at home


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Timeline (continued)

Sept 25 (Concordia Match): Dr. H tells us at crush about this class andexternal focus

Sept 28 Saint Martins away: Started reading the inner game of tennisbook

Oct 3 Anchorage match away: reinforced prayer for passing week before,

put balls in the corner to focus on serving target (becky hit first time),Jordin/Erin Rainbow set analogy, Christie, trace the ball from setters handsfor blocking, Sam dent the floor,

Oct 4 Fairbanks Practice: clock to hit the ball

Oct 4 Fairbanks Match away

Oct 7 Erin, Cover the ball, stamp it clean wasnt until 10/30/11 that she

understood the stamping after asking how to keep the shape when sheruns to ball it becomes harder

Oct 10 Simon Fraiser at home

Oct 12 Western Washington at home


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Oct 14 Shifted passers to trajectory based on distance effect, all but Lanishould have kept more of them at prayer stage.

Oct 17 SPU away

Oct 19 MSUB away: shifted to structured mindset during matches, runs of3, responding to points

Oct 19-Oct 26: practiced runs of three during 6 on 6 drills did 6 on 6whole practice

Oct 26 SMU at home

Oct 28: changed to faster sets, added quick 2s

Oct 29: had horrible practice due to changes and high pace environment

Oct 30: switched back to fundamentals based on the multi-tasking article,

and insights from motor learning research about variation in a single-taskvs. varied tasks.

Oct 31 Fairbanks at home

Nov 2 Anchorage at home


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Nov 4-Nov 6 practice

Nov 4th: motor learning class talked about Gentilescategorization (spatial/temporal) tried it with jumpserves today (11/5) in practice and it seemed to have a

positive effect. Also reflected on samssequencing ofhitting (breaking down arm, jump, timing etc. and howmuch less frustrated she was).

Nov 6 practice at WWU

Nov 7 match at WWU Nov 8 practice at SFU

Nov 9 match at SFU


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Nov 14thhome vs. MSUB

Nov 16thhome vs. SPU

Nov 21st

away at NNU Nov 23rdaway at CWU


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Alaska Anchorage/Fairbanks

The week prior we did passing

prayers and while at Anchorage

we did serving targets and

while at Fairbanks we did clockball


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External Focus for Hitting Varied Shots

We used the face of a clock to represent the location on the ball that

would need to be hit for a specific shot. At this time it is worth notingthat we had all hitters (both right and left sides) hitting on both the

right and the left. Traditionally, the right side hitters hit the majority of

their balls on the right while left side hitters hit on the left. The added

complexity of 4 different shots and two of which being mirror images

depending on the side they are hitting left the external focus

ineffective.


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Montana State Billings 11/14/13

The structuring of responses

After Saint Martins, and the success of both

billings and smu we shifted back to faster sets

Christie and I worked on hitting high on the

ticker


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Theories

Dynamic Systems Theory

Individual (Cognitive Theory)

Task (Motivation, Perception, Goal Theory)

Environment (Learning Theory)


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Skills

Serving

Passing

Setting Hitting

Blocking

Defending


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Journal

Video Organize folder

Research articles that support findings Comparison to traditional

Coaches perspective

Players perspective

Differences between skills


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Good but not in right spot


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Player assessment

Coaches assessment

translation


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Distance effect

Performance focuses

Translation from tradition-compressed version

External Focus in Volleyball

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