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A must-have for optimum athletic performance at any age!
I have never been coached in my life in any sport.Plus, I am extremely self-conscious and timid.As an adult, I play a huge active roll in the volleyball community in my state, and I bought this book to help me grow my game.It made a huge difference, and I read it over and over again.It also helps with how you approach life in general with strong confidence and a positive outlook.

Really good book for players and coaches
I'm a coach and a player. I use alot of the principles from this book in training my team and it's done very well to motivate the players I would reccomend this book to all coaches and players.
I find ita good resource for myself.

The answer I've been looking for.
If ever there was a book I wish I could have read when I was a young athlete Volleyball Cybernetics would be that book.This book is a must read for volleyball coaches and I would recommend this book for any young athlete - even if they don't play volleyball.Why?Two reasons:

1)As a teenage athlete I had the skills, I had some good coaches,I had the heart.I just did not have the mental fortitude - the strength of mind to enable me to take my game to my highest level.And that is what this book is all about, developing the mind game, developing that element of talent which separates the champions from the contenders, the great ones from the 'could have beens',And I should know, I was a 'could have been' because I did not have the mental skills to capitalize on my athletic potential.But no regrets.No worries.

2)I have a daughter who plays volleyball.She's pretty good and sincerely wants to get better.She works hard at improving her skills and I support and encourage her as much as I can.But there have been times when she would be having a 'bad' game and get into a mental and emotional slump.At those time she would come unglued and all I could do was sit back and watch my child self-destruct and fall apart.No parent enjoys that picture so I started buying all kinds of volleyball training and playing and skills and drills and conditioning books looking for some answers.I bought her some plyometric jump training shoes, got her some private coaching figuring that more training would solve the problem.NOT!The extra training helped tremendously but physical training without proper mental training will only produce a contender - and not a champion.Take my word for it.

And creating champions is the focus of Volleyball Cybernetics.When I came across this book I was elated.I had finally found the master key to help my daughter.This books really gets into the mental preparation and emotional training needed to produce a Brett Farve, a Serena Williams, a Tiger Woods. It is loaded with tons of mental skill development techniques that are fun and effective.Did you ever want to know how to enter "The Zone" - that supremely confident state of mind where you can do no wrong?Then read this book.Frustration, fear, embarrassment, succumbing to the pressure, low self esteem, lost confidence, procrastination, avoidance, lack of composure, timidity, choking and other negative states of mind can be obliterated using the material in this book.Now I'm sitting back and watching my daughter get mentally tougher each practice.And I'm loving every minute of it.

If you or your child have a true desire to be the best, are willing to put in the physical dedication and just need to develop the mental discipline to be a champion then buy this book, apply the information and your success is assured.(It also helps to have some good coaching.)

As a matter of fact, even though I'm getting close to 50 and I have never played volleyball, I am so pumped up by this information that I am considering getting into the game because I believe Volleyball Cybernetics can even work for me.Fortunately, I have kept myself in excellent physical condition and I do have some athletic ability left. (Plus I got great medical benefits). Besides, why should my daughter have all the fun.I feel that I have found the missing piece that I've needed to once and for all bury those old memories of my classic chokes. With this information I feel I can finally rise to the challenge and reach for some athletic glory even at my age.So why not give it a try.Enough of this arm chair quarterbacking.GAME ON!

This should be in every coach's library.
Without actually trying some of the techniques outlined in the book, the whole thing might be considered positive-attitude pyscho-babble.Try some of the techniques on yourself.It's good stuff!

The book is a quick,easy read.I'll be first in line to pick up a followup. ... Read more

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Teachers and coaches need both the participant's guide and this companion teacher's guide to teach effectively. Teaching Volleyball: Steps to Success follows the same skill progressions as the participant's book and features management and safety guidelines, rating charts for identifying players' skill levels, 105 drills to fit various skill levels, teaching cues to maximize learning, suggestions for identifying and correcting errors, and a complete test bank of written questions. ... Read more

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A diverse array of 101 of the very best drills from 92 of America's top volleyball coaches. ... Read more

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A pioneer in the field of gay group travel traverses the globe in a series of travel vignettes about such locales as Paris, Italy, the Middle East, Beijing, and the San Blas Islands off Panama. ... Read more

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Inventor of Gay Travel Reveals not-quite all.
This is a collection of autobiographical memoirs,
each one recounting an episode in the author's life - ftom his escape from Nazi Germany as a boy to his retirement in Key West, Fl. some sixty years later.Along the way he mrrts, hob-nobs with and guides some of the rich-and-famous, (as well as the 'used-to-be' and the 'wanna be').English titles, Italian princesses, African Kings - all play supporting roles in Mr. Ebersten's drama whidh makes for fascinating reading.Finally, after forty years in the travel business and emigrating to New York, Mr. Ebensten gets the idea that gay men might like to travel together and so the first gay travel agency is launched, amid much scepticism on the part of the Industry.He was spectacularly right, of course;LGBT travel is now Big Business indeed, with a whopping share of the market.But the reader of these travel vignettes will wince, chuckle, and be amazed at the pitfalls, successes, and failures of some of the author's enterprises. Ebensten is brutally fair, and the ill-mannered oaf, (no matter how rich, titled, or gay),who spoil the fun, evoke his scorn as much as the elderly, feeble, but very knowledgeable, woman who is fun and a good sport earns his praise and admiration.This is not alwats "politically correct" but is very revealing., and always readable.

These tales are told from a gay perspective, of course, but they are not "gay" stories with perhaps one exception, his sory of a night in Florance, Italy with 98 motorcycle cops (!)In fact,, one of the failings of this very literate, informed, and entertaining writer is that we do not often learn of his personal involment in the proceedings.He is an observer, a faciltator, a a reporter, a commentator, but we never know how much of a participator.We get tantalizing tid-bits, (he likes leather, 'staches, muscular Greek boys, etc.), but not enough to build up a mosaic picture.He comes across sometimes as fussy, a bit humorless, and even prudish,which cannot be his dominant personality cinsidering his success as a travel agant, guide, and conpanion.Nevertheless, the characters he writes about more than make up for any lack of his owm.

"Volleyball wiht the Cuna Indians" is perhaps,not for everyone.The author assimes his readers know a few words of Latin, French, German and Spanish;also that they have read more widely than the Sports pages. Given his Euro-English upbringing of the 1930's and thet Mr. Ebensten is now nearing eighty, this reader quite forgave these rather quaint, old fashioned notions.Take the trip with Hans.You will be erll rewarded.I wqa! ... Read more

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For players and coaches at all competitive levels, Volleyball Drill Book: Individual Skills presents over two hundred drills for the development and improvement of basic volleyball skills, including:

• Passing
• Serving
• Setting
• Blocking
• Digging
• Service Reception
• Spiking

Customer Reviews (11)

good basic book
This book helped a great deal as abeginning volleyball instructor

VOLLEYBALL DRILL BOOK;GAME ACTION DRILLS
THE BOOK HAS THE SAME DRILLS AS ANYOTHER BOOK NO NEW DRILLS DESCRIPTION VERY VAGUE.

It's volleyball, not rocket science
I'm trying to help myself and my team improve so I bought this game action drills book. There are no pictures to demonstrate proper stances, only X's and O's. I felt like I was in a Pro Football locker room. The book is obviously aimed at the experienced coach who understands the jargon and the diagrams. I found my help at the local library in the kids volleyball section. [....]

Volleyball Unbalanced
Introduction: The following article is about a high school physical education project that has impacted the Federation International de Volleyball to change its rule of play for volleyball. Before the invention of Rocball, a game developed by high school students in Saipan, volleyball had no significant rule changes from 1895 to almost 1995. The developement of Rocball in 1980, its 18 years as an organized sporting activity and its subsequent media coverages, is the game that has changed the way this kind of team net sport will forever be played.NEWS RELEASE: 6/16/01

ASPORT'SCORPSE

AFFLICTION: (1:5)When the Federation International de Volleyball (FIVB) disemboweled volleyball of its side out scoring system, they eviscerated volleyball of some of its most prolific and unique competitive features. Now, what FIVB is presently promoting as volleyball, under the malefic influence of rally point scoring, is nothing more than the reanimated corpse of what W.G. Morgan created as a team net sport back in 1895.

SYMPTOM: (2:5)The fact is, if the FIVB had any sense of balance, insight, intuitive perceptions, or integral rational when they attempted to remold volleyball's scoring system, they would have benefited far better, if they would have taken advantage of what potential volleyball had to offer, and should have put more mental effort into working with the intrinsic values of volleyball's side out scoring system's competitive nature. But, they didn't and in their attempt to develope an equitable offensive and defensive scoring system, they failed miserably. The FIVB, either by ignorance, by fault of thought, or suffering from acute vacuity, neglected to recognize the importance of the serve and the significance of the service team's position in this kind of team net sport, as the game's catylists.

DIAGNOSIS: (3:5)Under the rally point scoring system, the team in service is handicapped with the serve, and the receiving team is in the dilemna of having the scoring advantage for the disadvantage of the serve. The team in service has one hit to send a ball over the net on the serve to score points. The receiving team has the advantage of three hits to set up a counterattack and numerous different types of opportunities to score points off the serve. So, under the rally point scoring system, it would seem that the serve has become more of a sacrfice than a challenge.

What is the source of origin for rally point scoring? The following is a description of the rules of play for ping pong with inserts in parenthesis to highlight its rally point connection: "hitting the ball back and forth over the net until one player (team player) missess the ball, or hits it onto the net or off the table (court); in each of these cases, the opponent scores a point. When a serve touches the net (hits the net and slides down on the opponent's court) but otherwise a good serve, it is called a "let". Ping pong is a game where each player has a paddle and one hit to bounce the ball off the table, on serve or in play, to send it over the net in an attempt to score.

Under the influence of ping pong via the rally point scoring system, in a scenario where team "A" and "B" start a game with team "A" in service: If team "A" makes a bad serve like a line fault, team "B" will earn a point. Then team "B" earns the right to be disadvantaged with the serve: If team "B" serves the ball into the net for a bad serve, team "A" will earn a point and then they will be burden with the serve again. When team "A" makes their second serve, if they hit the ball over the net and scuccessfully score a point against team "B", team "A" will have to make a third serve. If team "A" then hits the ball over the net and out of bounds, team "B" will earn another point.

In the four serves just described, the ball was only served over the net once. Team "A" served the ball three times and was the only team that hit or served the ball over the net. Team "B" served the ball once and they never hit the ball over the net. Four points were scored and as incredible as it is, truth being stranger than fiction, team "A" and team "B" are tied at two points each. If that isn't an inflated and gross misrepresentation of the net value of competitive action in an offensive and defensive scoring system for a team net sport, it will have to do unless something worse comes along, if that's possible.

And if all of that isn't bad enough, if team "A" and team "B" have scored a game to set point 23 to 24, and team "A" is at service with 23 points and makes a bad serve, team "B" wins the set. The ball doesn't have to be served over the net and a team doesn't have to be challenged to hit the ball off the serve to win a set.

The rally point scoring system's anemic, self inflicting, unearned error point's system and its anticlimatic methods of winning a game, are not examples of how anomalies may be created when working to develope an equitable offensive and defensive scoring system for a team net sport. These are two different stages of how and when rigormortis sets into a team net sport that has been unbalanced, become redundantly repetitive, is suffering from stress, competitive convulsion, and shock. And, they are the direct results of the Fallacious Indolent Vertiginous Blounderers (FIVB) efforts to make a team sport out of ping pong and displace it onto a volleyball court.

THERAPY: (4:5)Under the side out scoring system, a served ball is a challenge and a threat because it can't be penalized error points to the advantage of the service team's opponent. However, It is also the responsibility of the team in service to provoke a competitive situation of cause and effect. When a team in service fails to fullfill the character of its role, a penalty situation would be defined and enforced. And, a service penalty where a point would be lost instead of awarded to a team by error would be more the proper judgement of an offensive and defensive scoring system's competitive nature for a team net sport.

In a game like volleyball, the service team's exclusive advantage to maintain earned points off the serve should remain inviolate. If the service team fails in its responsibility to successfully challenge its opponents off the serve, it should be penalized a point. The service team would lose one point off its score. From this method, a service team's opponents would benefit by either increasing its lead, reducing the service teams lead, or gaining the lead if both teams are tied. But, most important of all, there would be no unearned points awarded, non competitive action would be devalued, and each team would have to gain set/game point off the net value of its own competitive scoring strategies and skills.

However, in order for the serve to be valuable enough to compete for in a offensive and defensive side out scoring system, the receiving team would be limited with two hits off any serve. When the receiving team is then able to successfully hit and send the ball back over the net in two hits, the service team would be the first team to have the three hit advantage of setting up an attack to score. The receiving team could earn the service off their two hit defense of the serve, but they would not be allowed to score unless they successfully defended against the service team's three hit attack. The third time the ball is hit over the net, is after the service team has had first opportunity to set up an attack off three hits. The third time the ball crosses over the net, is also when the receiving team would have its three hits to set up a counter attack and score points. Then both teams would be under equitable competive circumstances and whichever team scored first, would win the advantages of the serve.

And, only the first serve of the person occuppying or rotating into the service position would be subject to penalty. Otherwise, all that would have been created, would be an inversion of what has degenerated the game of volleyball under the rally point scoring system; where every non-competitive action off any serve, is an unearned error point for the service team's opponent. It is enough that a team loses a point and the scoring advantages of the serve, off the first serve. Making a bad serve on any subsequent serves, would cost the service team its scoring advantage, but any further non-competitive serve would remain neutral.

The serve, in a team net sport, should create an atmosphere of anxiety not conditions of anticipation for the service team's opponents. The competitive environment in a situation where there is offensive and defensive scoring system, requires adjustments in order for the service team to maintain its scoring advantage. The service team would have the advantage of two point aces and an optional scoring technique to offset its own penalty in service. The two point ace occurs when, off the serve, a receiving team player hits a serve

Not what it appears to be
Though this book seems to boast ideas for self-improvement, the title "Individual Skills" is misleading.I was looking forward to discovering some drills I could do on my own to improve my performance but when I got the book, I found nearly every drill listed requires full team.There are some good ideas for teams, but as far as individually, the book lacks in suggestions for self-improvement independent.I would not recommend this book to anyone who is playing recreational volleyball and looking to improve on his/her own time. ... Read more

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One of the most detailed and comperhensive college guide to Volleyball available.Covering admssions, financial aid, NAIA, NCAA eligibility, what coaches look for in a player, how to get noticed by college coaches, what is the parents role and responsibility, constructing resumes and cover-letters and so much more.So of you are serious about playing at the collegiate level, this is the guide for you. ... Read more

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