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5 Keys to give your team balance and an advantage: Key #4 — Stay In The Here And Now Can you go back in time? NO! This is where the Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda’s start to show up in peoples minds. Can you accelerate time? NO! This is where the, I can’t wait until… starts to displace the time of now. The fact is that the only time that you have is right now. This is very important in practice and in competition. Players need to prioritize the time of now, doing this will help them define their concentration. It makes...

Tip by PJ Gildernew, Chaffey HS in Ontario, CA. Serve/Receive: No matter where the server serves from, all passers must face the server (so two of the passers will always be angled and one passer will be straight on with server). If the passer, who is straight on is left or right, then the outside leg should be up so the hips are turned toward the setter target area and the ball only needs to be deflected in the right direction)…it makes the determination of who is getting the ball quicker and places the passer in line with the ball...

5 Keys to give your team balance and an advantage: Key #3 — Visualization (Creative Synthetic Visualization-CSV) The formula for CSV is “imagination times the vividness will become reality in the subconscious mind.” Have your team members get into a relaxed state with their eyes closed and picture in their mind’s eye the skill or situation that they wish to improve upon. Be sure to emphasize that they always visualize in the first person. When they visualize have them be precise and meticulous in the body motions and outcomes. It is imperative that they visual doing the skill correctly and...

5 Keys to give your team balance and an advantage: Key #2– Goal Setting Can you get there if you don’t know where you are going? There are basically two types of goals. Dream goals and wish goals. A dream goal is a goal that you want deeply and long for it to happen, and spend a great deal of time each day thinking about and working toward accomplishing it. A realist knows hard work will get them to their goal eventually. A wish goal is one that you wish could happen to you without very much personal investment of...

Tip by Nabil Mardini, Pierce College & L.A.V.A. in Los Angeles, CA Learning to Learn: The three main reasons, a student or athlete fail to learn and comprehend certain material is because of the following: (1) Everything must be cleared. From a skill, to a key word, to a concept, etc. Once cleared, one’s memory doesn’t server you well. You must write everything down and use in sentences (at least three times) until it becomes entrenched and engrained in the long term memory of the brain; (2) While we have a small percentage of people who learn by listening, the...