Art of Coaching Blocking Tips

Terry Liskevych   (USA Women’s Team Coach)

Front

 • Position body in front of hitter's striking arm

Penetrate

 • Go directly over the net

• Press (extend with arms and shoulders)

Hands

• Block the ball with your hands, spread your fingers 415

Clamp

• Surround tight sets

Diane Flick-Williams ( Western Washington University)

• See the ball longer

• Different than most people on this one

• Hitter will go to the ball

• Small adjustments up top - 1 inch = 3 feet

• When learning, better to be late and right than guess and b@ wrong

• Ball - Setter - Ball – Hitter

 • Big first step / hurdle step

Chris Catanach (University of Tampa)

 • Goal of your block: Time the block so you are at max jump and ram' your arms are over the net and locked

 • Arms are shoulder width apart and they penetrate the plane of the net before contact ▪

• Hands are big and arms are locked straight at the time of contact

•Keep the arms extended through the landing

• The final steps leading to the jump are a left, right plant when blocking to your right and a right, left plant when blocking to Ire your left

• The block motion is dynamic when adding the arm drive and the footwork 

Russ Rose (Penn State University)

• Read the play hall-setter-ball-hitter (turn outside hands in)

• Face the attacker and lead with the hands - better to be over than high

• Press to the middle of the court and better to be wide than too narrow  

Mike Lingenfelter  (Munciana Volleyball Club)

• "Take away option 1" and "Take away vision"