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Excellent Drills to Develop Your Underhand Serve!

By nate.landas - Last updated: Friday, January 11, 2013

Listen to excellent advice from former UW-Milwaukee (’93 -`06) Head Volleyball Coach, Kathy Litzau. Here she uses skill progressions for teaching and developing fundamental volleyball skills with youth players. See what volleyball exercises Coach Litzau has her youth team run through in the clip below.
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Coach Litzau guides beginning players through a progression for serving underhand. Proper throwing mechanics, weight transfer, and efficient ball contact is emphasized so players can experience success early.

Check out an additional clip from the product page of “Junior Volleyball Association presents Mini Volleyball: Youth Volleyball Skills & Games.” See high quality Youth Volleyball Coaching DVDs and other Volleyball DVDs from our huge video library!

Filed in Volleyball • Tags: AAU Volleyball, Kathy Litzau, Underhand Serves

Fun Small Sided Games to Make Your Practice More Exciting!

By nate.landas - Last updated: Friday, January 11, 2013

Learn small sided games in this segment featuring Kathy Litzau, a former volleyball player at the University of Notre Dame. Coach Litzau will show you 4-on-4 and 3-on-3 competitions that provide your players the chance to practice their volleyball skills in a game-like setting. Anyone involved in coaching or teaching youth volleyball will love this instructional clip.

Using an age appropriate ball and smaller playing area; player’s Serve, Bump, Set, and Spike score points in mini-games of 4v4 or 3v3 on a half court. The entire game is learned via the best method: PLAY.

Variations:

Have players rotate while the ball is in play
Players on the losing side lose a player with each point lost. They can gain players back by winning the rally. The game ends when all players on a side are eliminated.

Filed in Volleyball • Tags: AAU Volleyball, Half Court, Kathy Litzau

Phenomenal Overhand Breakdown to Serve More Aces!

By nate.landas - Last updated: Friday, January 11, 2013

Develop your youth volleyball players with top notch instruction from 7x Horizon League Coach of the Year, Kathy Litzau. She shows you a progression that begins with basic skill techniques and allows you to add more to the skill as your athletes improve. This overhand serve training will have your players hitting more aces in no time at all!

Coach Litzau takes her beginning players through a progression designed to warm-up the shoulder, reinforce proper throwing mechanics, and successfully serve overhand. The steps of serving that are covered include:

Feet (Targeting and Weight Transfer)
Toss and Step (Momentum and Power)
Contact (Hitting the Ball with an Open Hand to Target)

Filed in Volleyball • Tags: AAU Volleyball, Kathy Litzau, Overhand Serves

Game-Like Drills to Win More Matches!

By nate.landas - Last updated: Friday, January 11, 2013

See some outstanding coaching and full court games from Head Coach of the U11 Gold Milwaukee Sting, Kathy Litzau. Coach Litzau provides the techniques and games needed to develop your players’ skills. This will allow you to create active, high participation practice sessions for your team.

Players play full court games in 6v6 match-ups Players initiate play with a serve and play out each rally. Games are played to 7 or 11.

Variations:

The winning side earns a free ball
Players play all positions

Filed in Volleyball • Tags: AAU Volleyball, Full Court, Kathy Litzau

2 New Youth Volleyball DVDs!

By mike.oconnell - Last updated: Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Two new youth volleyball DVDs! These excellent DVDs feature skill progressions for teaching and developing fundamental volleyball skills!

Junior Volleyball Association presents Mini Volleyball: Youth Volleyball Skills & Games – Volleyball

A useful series of expertly-presented skills and games to help your volleyball program flourish
Fresh, fun and innovative concepts that will help improve every practice session
A “must-have” DVD for anyone involved in teaching volleyball to 6-12 year olds

Junior Volleyball Association presents 35 Japanese Drills for Youth Volleyball

35 fun and effective drills for any youth, middle or high school volleyball program
Innovative, creative and purposeful drills to reinforce tempo, timing, balance, coordination, speed, teamwork, footwork, eye-hand coordination and more
A “must-have” DVD for anyone coaching youth volleyball