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Happy Holiday! Glad you're back on the scene Rami. Hopefully the bangers keep funneling in...

Absolutely, thanks for tuning in.

Great idea! I love it!

You're very welcome!

Good question, obviously you want to focus on the ball during your approach. But if you have time to take a peek before you move to see where the block is initially setup, or before contact will go a long way. Definitely have to use your peripheral vision as much as possible to get a feel for where the blockers are around you. When in doubt, hit a little more line or more angle on the slower sets because the block usually has time to close if it’s slower. Thanks for watching!

My advice is to look at the blockers before or during the approach, to aim I honestly aim my contact point rather than one specific target, I find it easier to contact the ball after I already had a peek.

the more you hit the more time you will feel you have in the air, once hitting is just second nature a whole new game opens up with spotting the blocks and the gaps

I find that approaching as far diagonally as still allows you to hit line makes for an easier time seeing the blockers while already in the air. I don't think actively focusing on the block during your approach is necessary or even advisable.

Let's go! Love to hear that.

I love to hear that! Keep up the great work.

Anything specific? Thanks!

@@mitchsterkenburg maybe the penultimate steps, or things regarding the proper training for jumping higher

@@mitchsterkenburg or honestly anything regarding with doing the proper exercises for swinging, jumping, core and etc… lots of bad exercises out there that are inefficient and ineffective

thank you my friend.

I appreciate the feedback! Any recommendations? I've been sticking with it because the format seems to be doing well with the algorithm.

Yes I can!

This video is definitely one I’ll make at some point.

@@mitchsterkenburg thank you!!!!! Big fan of your page and content man🙌🏽

You bring up a great point! While it would appear that a simpler style of hitter with more of a stiff arm swing would create more control, I would argue that abbreviating your swing in such a way makes it harder to control. As well as harder to avoid the block (especially in OOS). The play I showed of the middle blocker was still a good swing, and you'll take that type of contact most of the time. But as the ball gets pulled off the net, the more back row attacks you hit, and the better the defense on the other side, the more dynamic you have to be with your arm swing to score. I am simply trying to point out to players who maybe feel like a lot of their attacks are getting easily dug, a way to implement more pace on their shots could be with more range in their arm swing.

A better conception is that the stiff arm has the least delay in arm swing. So takes the least time in air to swing through, whereas circle is longest but produces the highest momentum. These differences are only ~0.1seconds apart however but the rule is with sets that have a lot of time to approach, you can spend more time in the air loading a greater swing like archer or circle, but for faster sets like quicks or 1st tempo, you may have to stiff arm if you can't keep up, hence middles prefer the fastest swing time for fast balls and not necessarily hard hits.

Thanks! Basic physics right, the harder a ball comes in the harder it will come out. You can still hit high sets with a lot of velocity but generally not as hard as quick sets I would agree.

While some would call 6'3 undersized at the middle position, if you have the athleticism and determination I wouldn't tell anyone they can't play a position if they have it. If you have the intangibles, you can play wherever you want.

Good luck man, you got some pretty good chances as long as your able to jump. I’m a middle as well but I’m only 5’9, I need to work really hard on my vertical now that I’m a middle. 😭

hang on the bar and raise your legs to chest height or planks

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My best thought would be to replicate the motion on one knee, you don't need to jump when practicing. If not that, maybe outside if the weather is reasonable?

@@mitchsterkenburg Should have thought of that lol, thanks for the help

A few things, first what position do you play? For all positions you will encounter scenarios where the setter is pulled off the 10 foot line - when that happens you can't go fast through your full approach. You have to delay if. If you don't, you'll overrun your route and take away all your power. So if everything is going fine for you on perfect passes then that's fine, but wait a couple extra seconds before entering the approach on 1 or 2 passes that are harder on the setter.

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Practice is going to help the most, I find watching film can be extremely helpful to establish a good internal timing for all positions. From the best of the best in the world, to D1 levels of play, watching provides a lot of benefits as well.

@@mitchsterkenburg Thanks, i'm very anti social I would say and it's diffucult for me to ask for sets or make friends that play volleyball, so im trying to fix that this year and become a more out going and kinda greedy person.

Locked wrist + more power and control. All the highest level players do it.

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@@mitchsterkenburg thanks

You never know when your coach needs you to make that switch to OH...

trebuchet not a bad option lol