I’m a volleyball coach. My answer to what is more important the athletic component or the skill: I would say its the same. For every level of volleyball that you play there is the matching skill and matching athletic abilities that are required. You can’t play high level volleyball without being both a high level athlete and a very skilled player.

Max reach in jumping is a 10/10 for importance in volleyball. The effect your play has on the game when you get up high is crazy. For starters, if you’re short in volleyball, you can’t even score points at all if you can’t get above the net. In basketball, you can shoot 3s to compensate for your height disadvantage. In volleyball, you can only defend and assist if you can’t reach a certain height. I really appreciate yall for taking the time to talk about this stuff. I’m trying to increase my vert as much as possible over the summer while I have a break from practicing constantly.

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I’m a middle blocker and play club for my university. For men’s indoor volleyball, i would say increasing your vertical is more important than honing your skills, especially if you play front row (wouldn’t expect a libero to be prioritizing jump training, but they still could) because you already have to be decent to join the club team, and because volleyball isnt our primary obligation, there’s only so much time we can put into skill base training. Especially if you play front row, increasing your vertical is essential. I think the same logic goes for women’s indoor volleyball but they play way more technical due to their lack of power, while men’s volleyball is all about power in the spike

Interesting insight! I'm 28, own a volleyball club, 6ft 5in, 8ft reach, 200lbs with a 38 inch vert touching over 11ft. Your coach nailed it at 19:30. At a high level, assuming approach and timing skill is good, max jump touch is the ultimate decider. Additionally, arm swing technique, hand contact, and velocity are just as critical of a breakpoints as max jump touch. When you watch volleyball, often you will see players who only have one or two of these breakpoints dialed in. (jump ability, timing, arm swing, hand contact) However, when an athlete has each breakpoint dialed in and a skilled team to set them up, it is something to behold. Look up TJ Defalco and watch him play with our national team. I played against him in club and every one would crowd his court to watch him because we all knew that he had it all... and this was only the beginning for him. I loved what you said about more coaches need to focus on and respect max jump training and the toll it can take on ones body. I will be experimenting with your coaches two peak plan! Thank you!

Starting out in volleyball, vertical is really important because the game is played over the net so being higher up gives you a big advantage. Then once you get up to the university level and everyone is touching relatively the same it’s way more about skill and hitting shots. All attackers jump well at the higher level so you don’t get many chances to hit straight down because you’ll probably get blocked, so skill comes into play a lot more if you wanna be successful.

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Been a fan for years Isaiah and I’m so glad you started getting on volleyball

The simple answer is that skill is way more important than vertical. To a certain degree (mainly in lower level volleyball like B level or BB which is recreational-average players), vertical is important. An average player typically can’t hang with someone who is just jumping out of the gym. But when you get to that next level which is A, AA, or higher, you find out fast that vertical alone can’t carry a person to the next level. Vertical (specifically for the front row) is more so a “multiplier” for skill in the sense of “skill ceiling”. A person with high skill and a medium vertical can have a wide shot selection for points and they’ll typically be really good. If you give that person something like THP Strength and now they have high skill and a high vertical, they’ll have an even wider shot selection and way more ways to score. The point is that a higher vertical isn’t necessary for this person to score because they can score anyways, but a higher vertical would be nice to have.

Love this style of videos

this video is straight faxs 10/10 importance for jump ability and skill, especially for shorter hitters

I play beach doubles primarily and also some grass doubles. I would say skill is definitely more important than athletic ability, but It’s also an advantage being athletic. Playing doubles is definitely more of a skillful game than playing indoor just because you have to be such a versatile player. I would say, compares more to tennis but using your body a lot more, we have some tournaments that are two days long. And I believe you would jump way more often playing doubles, then indoor

Thank u so much! There’s not a lot of volleyball content out there

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What Isaiah mentioned at around 17:30, is pretty much accurate, and there are great volleyball strength coaches w good periodization that include off season hypertrophy, strength, mobility and rehab kinda

I'm glad you guys made this video volleyball. As a volleyball player, I was hesitating to sign up for THP but seems like you guys already know a lot about it. My biggest worry was not being able to "implement" whatever advices you would give me because I have to be jumping very frequently throughout the week.

Speaking as an experienced Beach and Indoor, Player and Coach for 10 years, Scale of 1-10 Vertical max touch versus Skill Importance level👇 Indoors: you can be specialized in a position, and some of those positions vary on this. Front row players, blockers hitters, vertical jump and endurance of that is near as important as skill or experience. Beach: Vertical is important, but skill can be of more use with more ways to score creatively. But Vertical is critical to access parts of the court that you know are open. Moral of the story Vertical and Skill are at about a 40/60 importance ratio, for both Indoors and Beach, IMO. One could argue more Vertical for Indoor and more Skill for Beach, im sure. But again positions are a factor for indoor.

One of the highest jumpers in international volleyball is Yuji Nishida. You should make a podcast about him in the future.

For the volleyball there's a whole spectrum of positions that requires from almost no vertical jump training (libero) to almost only vertical jump (middle/opposite). I played in semi-professional club in Poland as a outside hitter and I had higher max vertical then my friend who played in PlusLiga (best professional league in Poland) as a outside hitter. I also had higher vertical then Michał Kubiak who was polish national team capitan as outside hitter while winning world championship. So for my position skill is much more important then vertical. On that high level for most practice I used to jump at 60-70% of my max just to survive. I remeber one match with over 120 attacks + blocks + jump serves (combined over 200 jumps in 3 hours match) and it was a killer.

im a former d1 player and I loved what you said about "something has to give" my vert went down (41 going into college, 36 whe I left + back injuries I still have to this day) during college due to over training and when i spoke up about it I was labeled as a complainer and weak, coaches told me I didnt have enough "grit" but it was BS I just knew my body better than they did I hated the weight room because the results werent there As for the skill level question: there are plenty of players who dont touch 11+ but are incredible because of their wrist control, think about it like being a pitcher. A pitcher doesnt need to throw 103 to pitch in the mlb if they have great control over the spin and play of their pitches. Verticality can often be a crutch for some players to lean on and they dont end up becoming their best because they can jump high and hit hard As for number of jumps in the gym for a d1 program. It is easily 250+ a day, then you squat 40-50 reps at 60-90% intensity right after then coaches are surprised when their players get injured

it's the same as what you said, there is a reach based for high level, but then skills comes to be more important EXEPT if there is a big gap from two players, it makes a big difference

Hey! Been loving the content and the format recently. I recently got injured in my lower back (spondylolisthesis grade 1), should heal up but I am expecting to stop playing for a couple of weeks. How will this affect my vert and his there any exercises I can do while injured that will help maintain jumping strength? 😊

I played both basketball and volleyball. My vertical was my success in both sports, and off season was the key to building my vertical. I didn't get to Isaiah's level but I topped out at a 42 inch vertical with a max touch of 11'4". In my prime I played A and AA volleyball

Thank you both for helping and encouraging Nesir. You guys are amazing and very knowledgeable. I’ve been taking notes and working on a bootleg version of THP called RHP which I will be selling on Canal st (a place where you can buy the bootleg version of anything in NYC) for a limited time. RHP might sponsor your next video, depending on sells. All Jokes aside…you guys are the truth…the 2 other players from the team that we recommended last June to join THP, that actually had worse knee pain then Nesir…went the whole season without knee pain. Great job fellas!!!

Thank you so much for this Video since i was one that requested this you Guys are awesome!!! I Play beach Volleyball and this IS my Take on it The Skill height Ratio becomes more important the shorter the athlete. If you Talk about a pro Level where everyone IS above 1.90m, Power Volleyball (which means use physicality, jump high Hit hard) becomes less affective and you Shift towoards skill and strategy AS the Key factor. So for beginner i would say Power Volleyball (be tall, jump high, Hit hard) vs Skill IS a 80 20, intermediate its 60 40, and advanced to pro its shifts to Like 35 65 So IT IS basically Like you described with bball One Thing you need to remember that differenciates from dunking IS that you fit your penultinum step so that you Land with the opposite Leg from your hitting Hand, and you Twist your Torso more then dunking so you can load your arm. In the short you uploaded you can See your Hit is Not powerfull because you Lack the loading of the arm and dont swing your arm. In my opinion this affects your max vert too but i could be wrong

Thank you so much for this video Isaiah, the community really appreciates it. What shoes do you think would be the top 1 for a volleyball player? (I understand that it may be a different answer than the best for basketball, since in volleyball we jump more but we run less). Thank you very much and best regards from spain! :)

I would just like to request if you could do a video on spike power. I’ve had no issue with jumping and spiking but the problem is power. How do you get more power? How do you control power? And additionally, how to properly aim a spike.

i play d3 right now, there is a skill ceiling, as a shorter player, people will hit over your block constantly. attacking not incredibly important to have a higher vertical but helps. if you are good at using the block or choosing spots to hit youre fine.

I think what you said about basketball players having a baseline vertical and then improving the skill will allow you to play at a higher level. The higher you jump you get more angles when you spike. If you jump high and suck at spiking or the connection with the setter isn’t there you can’t really go far. I would say the KPI is spiking efficiency and you can improve that multiple ways. Spiking different angles, hitting off hands or using the speed of the set to beat the blockers.

I have been coaching volleyball for about 7-8 years both club and high school. I also have played both high school and college. I think technique and skill is way more important when it comes to hitting. I currently have a player that has close to a 40" vertical, but his timing and technique is not as great compared to someone who has great technique that can slam a ball down. You also have to take in account the size of the court and the hand-eye coordination to actually hit the ball. Eventually, there is a ceiling where you do need to increase your vertical, but you need to learn how to hit the ball correctly first.

At the collegiate level athleticism is more important. In my team, me and another setter were competing for the starting position and unfortunately even though I was the better setter the other setter started because he had a higher touch. The block is a key component of volleyball that can be locked passed sometimes.

I’m a college volleyball player and I can definitely say skill matters far more than jumping however the ceiling is higher the higher you touch, this is because having the skill to hit around a block even one that you clear over isn’t easy because the height that the ball crosses the net is lower than what you touch so to take advantage of the height you achieve you have to have the skill to hit the right angles where the ball clears the block as well. I actually had a teammate who was 6’3 with a 45 approach vert touching 12ft at 17 years old and even having played volleyball several years still struggled to hit around the block and would get blocked. All this said I love y’all’s videos and I think you’re understanding it from the coaching perspective because load management is definitely a volleyball player’s biggest enemy and often neglected

Definitely do an episode on Yuji Nishida

oh my god thank you for this video about volleyball. im 17, 6'2 with like a 35 inch vert and i play vb almost everyday i play outside/opposite, i grind plyos too with my friend

I estimate a vball approach is about 20ft, 4 steps for the outside hitters

To answer your volleyball question, the skill of hitting the volleyball is very important because as a 5,9 person almost being able to dunk with like a 35 inch vert I was one of the worst hitters on the volleyball team even tough my jump was by far the highest on the team. This was because I just simply couldn't learn how to hit the ball and instead I was focusing on jumping as high as physically possible.

The baseline for volleyball to compete at a decent level is your eyes above the net. Everything after that is a major plus. For me that’s a 10”6-10”8 touch at 6ft with a standing reach of 7”4. As long as you have this level of height in your attack jumps, skill si more important

I feel like yes vertical is good for block and hits but at the same time skill is most definitely more important because a good player will know where to be when someone is hitting no matter how high they jump

i would say honestly how high up you touch is more important than vert itself ofc we know height is #1 most important in vb but aside from that, the higher you can reach the more hit options you have available

Max touch becomes extremely important at the highest level of volleyball becuase a technical blocker can only get so good. If a "perfect block" is in place with 3 blockers, a player with a high enough contact point will be able to hit over the block more effectively when hitting around is not an option. You see this often with the tallest hitters in pro indoor gameplay. This also goes the other way around as you need a higher vertical in order to not get hit over as a blocker.

Setup time will be. 3-5 seconds for leftsides. 1 second for middles. 2-3 seconds for right sides

Blocking is easier in volleyball because u are rarely blocking alone in an actual game, usually there are 2 even 3 guys blocking at the same time, which already takes a lot of the hitting choices away. And also if going by the Isaiah's wording that "its like dunking a alley oop but with different timing" then as a blocker u are able to predict when, where and how the hit will come based on the set. Also the sets are usually not that far from the net(except backline hitting) so the ball is only inches away from the block on normal hits. If we are talking about a 1v1 situation then he is correct because it kinda expected for a hitter to score against one block in higher levels.

I feel that when it comes to volleyball, for hitters the game is a lot of the skill but after you have the skill of timing and the skill of just controlling the ball at the net well wether its hitting, tipping, rolling, jousting, or just placing the ball it really comes down to height of the player and vertical. Having the same skill set even two inches higher than an opponent gives you a crazy advantage. The only thing that beats vertical is good defense. For blocking you need to jump high and on an even harder time crunch depending on how good the setter is with his teammates. at the high level its really either get a crazy vertical or get good at defense which is entirely reaction time, speed, and most importantly learning to read the hitter.

Skill 100%

SKILL = 10 JUMP = 7 The goal is always to no let the ball hit the floor. Most points are earned from the other teams errors. Yes attacking and blocking higher jumps are better but you could put 6 50in jumpers (low skill) on one side of the net and expect to win against 6 technically sound average jumpers.

Great speculation for someone who isn't a volleyball expert. I would say you're right about the space available is different. I would also add that the consistency of all your jump height and standing vertical is very important. The ability to consistently get to 75-80% of your maximal vert is much more important than 90+% half the time. Also, frequent hard practices is ESSENTIAL for players to have good chemistry and fluid through defense and offense. One jumping session a week will not cut it unfortunately. Majority of vert training has to happen in the off-season. The rest of the time needs to go into skill improvement and team chemistry.

Love the video! Not actually sure that basketball is bigger than volleyball, according to a couple articles, volleyball actually has an 'estimated' bigger fanbase. Just thought it was funny, thought basket was bigger too. :D

More vball content pls!!!

There is one belorussian guy. Babkevich, he is around 6.11 I guess. Really good jumper even for "average vball height(6.7-6.8) he is able to go over huge blockers in Russia..Just because of really good techniques on high contact,fast swing.. if he was about to bounce,even with his reach would get roofed on this level

About a 6/10 for vertical jump and 9/10 for skill. In volleyball your vert means nothing if you can't time your approach correctly with the tempo of the setter. Now if a person were to have a insanely high vert (in my experience this is anything above 37 in.) then this widens the window for error in the timing of your hitting approach.

Simple answer -its about the same as you described for basketball..You gotta be able to reach at least 11ft to play on a serious level and you could be on the best World team roaster with it and play the Olympic final.Or you could be an amateur with 12+ft. I'm actually talking about people who trained in years of volleyball and were skilled already..

I would say the skill part is more important. It doesn’t matter if you have high vertical skills; they play a big role for shorter hitters. We have to find a way to be more creative and make the point, like tooling the block, and for blocking, it’s all about timing. I’m 5’10 and I'm decently athletic. I block way taller guys (6’4 and 6’5 hitters), but it would be nice to jump higher to get up with taller players.

Jumping high is beneficial, but the skill of timing, approach and making sure the ball is in front of you instead of over you is far more important when hitting. For dunking, most of the time the ball is over you and you just have to reach for the ball and grab it and you can guide it into the hoop But for volleyball, if you spike when the ball is over you and you swing hard, that ball is going out the court. So in most cases when your approach and timing is bad and the ball is over you, you hold back your power on swinging and sometimes you don't jump as high because you realized a bit too late that you're not going to be able to hit it well. So once you get the skills down (timing, approach and ball contact) then your confidence goes up that you know you'll be able to hit it. Then now you can focus on going all out on your jump

As a 5’9 AA volleyball player, my skill level definitely matters. But when you face 6’4+ blockers often, having a really good vertical is key to success

As a highschool and club volleyball player on the shorter side (5'7) both technique and jump are important but once you have a Good enough technique and power it's mostly about jump. I jump like 30 inches and have really good technique and power but most players on my team have a way higher reach then me. Getting a higher reach would even the field and let my better technique and power show.

As a former player of the Russian youth volleyball team, I can say that skill is WAY MORE important than vertical. But you have to keep in mind that we're talking about two-meter guys :) We took measurements and practiced with jump height gauges - the average jump during the game was about 27 inches. When some players' maximum was 40 inches.

Any thoughts on how to optimize training/technique for jumping off sand in beach volleyball, as opposed to off a floor indoors? You can't really spring off the ball of your foot with a block step: It would just push sand . . .

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Can you tell me 5 exercise to jump higher for volleyball players?

Finally noticed the volleyball community following isaiah, very happy haha

I can only refer to beachvolleyball, as I am only 5'9, my 40 inch vertical is very helpful, but the skill itself is way more important. Having good court vision, having a good hitting technique and also being able to shot the ball over the blocker without even hitting the ball hard. I know players that don't hit the ball hard once in a game and don't jump high either, but they still win the game with pure skill and court vision.

IMO vert and skill 50/50, I’m a shorter player so I always want to jump higher. I feel like once a player has the skill extra vert will only increase the player’s efficiency to score

As a vball player I def don’t think about jumping less than max, I’m always jumping at a 💯unless the set is really off, but the level I play sets are good

just for clarification.Pre-season i have to get healthy and ready to perform, in season cut volume and maintain and then off season i get better as fast as possible and then reapeat the cycle right?

Experienced player: skills are more important than jump but similar to basketball, jumping ability is an important baseline for potential.

I play volleyball at the highest university level in Canada, and I would say it’s around 30-70 for vertical vs skill. Yes, vertical and max touch are extremely important and beneficial, but they don’t mean much if you are not a smart player who has the volleyball IQ to use it. Me personally, I am 6 ft 3 and my max touch is 11ft 4.5 in and have around a 39-40 inch vertical, however I still touch on the lower end of my team since I am one of the shorter attackers. I personally rely mainly on technique, such as a good arm swing and using the blockers to tool off of and score points. So, skill is definitely more important, as good arm swing mechanics themselves are more important than how high you jump. Side note: you are absolutely correct about saying something has to give, for me in practices I cannot jump my max jump ever due to just being overtrained and having knee pain/soreness, have to rely on adrenaline in games to achieve that max jump 😂

Is there an age requirement to sign up to thp?

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Max touch can be an absolute cheat code for vball. Ima say a lot of the times more than skill. If you can spike over your blockers its basically changing the whole game. And you make the defensive team to change and adopt to that. So definitely depends how high your max touch is but if you take it to the extreme it can be more detrimental than skill

In my opinion it is 100% the same for volleyball when it comes to skill being more important than your vertical jump. At any high level of volleyball you'll always have guys who can jump prominently more higher than others but that definitely doesn't make them a better player automatically. Most guys who play at the higher level already have a reasonable height to compete which can compensate for some athletic ability they don't have. The guys who are the most smart and skilled are the most successful players for sure, not always the ones who jump out the gym

skill is for sure super important in volleyball but you could be the most skilled player and have your max reach only a few inches above the net or not even above the net which makes it next to impossible when you are playing with guys blocking you 50 inches above the net.

without a vertical in volleyball, especially in higher levels, you’re going to be stuck on defense, a higher vertical is the key to harder spikes, hitting shots, and actually contributing to a team

Last time i tried to jump on the program of your sponsor the answer was this : … Seems like I don’t jump high enough to get trained or something😂

I believe technique is much more important than vert in volleyball. Somebody with a significantly lower vert, but significantly better technique will be better than someone with opposite traits 9 times out of 10. however, it should be noted that technique is much much easier to teach compared to vert

Perhaps learn the backrow attack and show us some bangers

Vert ability - 8-9/10 Skill- 9/10 Injury mostly jumpers knee affects Athletes like myself significantly as it prevents high performance training after the 2 or 3rd training that week. I hate jumpers knee fr.

It's kinda the same as you said for dunking there is a base line of getting over the net but as soon as you hit that it's all about getting around the block rather than hitting over it or something because even if you had 3-4 inch higher vert then your opponent you still wouldn't be able to hit over the block because your objective is getting the ball to the floor not getting up to a rim or in other words they can just tilt their hands back and still block you PS: hitting is not as easy as one would think it would take at least a year of good training to get isaiah hitting cause dunking creates bad habits in hitting

can thp help with plantar fasciitis?

also check out kofi who’s a pro vb player and touches about 12’10

And jumping for blocks is harder than spikes. Spiking has an approach, blocking may not allow u to have any steps before the jump

i think for volleyball 30 inch to 40 inch is huge but 40inch to 50 is not that important in most cases. cause net is very low for this level of vertical. and for most attacks we dont have time for reaching our max vertical so ı would say standing vertical is more important for fast reaction

The way they use the word "tendon stiffness"... Dunno if they fully understand it. The medical term is used to mean the following: "Now, imagine that you stretch the thick rubber band repeatedly, elongating it to the point where its elastic fibers begin to fray. Eventually, it becomes less elastic and does not completely resume its pre-stretched form. The same thing can happen to tendons. When they are repeatedly overloaded with strain beyond their physiological limits, tendon stiffness is reduced, lowering elastic energy, causing failure and leading to irreversible plastic deformation." Tendon stiffness in the medical sense IS NOT a bad thing, but the opposite! It's synonymous with tendon health; like saying the fibers recover well after load, thick fibers can handle more load, more explosive lengthening and shortening.

I mean skills and vertical go hand in hand. I agree that vertical alone won’t carry you since you’ll be lacking in other aspects of the sport and others will out-skill you even if they don’t have that vertical. THOUGH once you get to a certain high degree of skill, 80-90% of the limiting factor will be the vertical and basically how physically strong you are.

As a person who has played D1 middle position, I can attest to the claims made that the coaches do not give a shit about the long term health of our knees, I have developed horrible knees from all the years of jumping thousands of times per week. I just wish that there were coaches and trainers that gave us education about the three major balances to propelling atheletes to the highest pinnacles of whatever they do. Example: 1. Proper rest and easy days where we practice drills and half ass some of the blocks/jumps on a women's height net for example so we don't need to jump high causing strain. 2. Weight room time where we give it our alls in order to progressively overload our 1RMs in the major compounds that allow us to generate more force against the ground yielding higher verticals. 3. Not allow us to jump more than a scientific given limit, example here is that Major League Baseball substitutes their pitchers out after roughly 100 pitches, why is that? maybe because the chances of injury are simply unbelievably high after this threshold. So volleyball coaches should have helpers that count the number of times a player is jumping and sit that player out after they have hit that threshold, what that threshold is, I have absolutely no clue, but I can say that after doing thousands of jumps per week over half a decade has destroyed my knees.

Search up Dmitry Aleksandrovich Muserskiy in the Japan League. He’s so tall and jumps alright that versing the Japanese they can’t stop him. That wold be Isaiah.

Jump : 7 , skill : 9 ,,, in volleyball history there's goat players that haven't have really high touch but at the end their skills made them the goat of volleyball like Earvin ngapeth ,,, and usa team has Benjamin path who spike at 350cm and shock the world but he wasn't that good for getting point at any situation

Volleyball is very demanding in skill aspect, so you can't just stop playing for a month or more to focus on jumping. I personally train at least twice a week or i will feel extremely rusty and wont be able to play my best, especially when it comes to hitting, becauae you simply forget the timing and approach. Because volleyball hitting aproach is different and is much quicker. So yes, I cannot reduce my total contact times. Currently I am stuck on 22 inch vertical and I am 25 yo and 136 lbs, but my jump even decreased, I used to touch the bottom of a backboard being 181 cm tall, but now for some reason I can't even do that. Its really depressing seeing guys shorter than me being able to touch the rim when I can't even touch the backboard

You obviously have the best vertical in the whole world.but try to tighten a rop at around just 10.8-10.9. and hit it hard enough from the perfect set and approach..not tip or swip but actually swing from the ball coming across the court..

That amount of jumping is definitely not sustainable, I am a prime example as at some point, I just decided to jump as high as I can while both hitting and blocking I was just fine for honestly a year but this beginning of semester was the most injured I have been at the college level while having a 46 inch vertical and I sacrificed blocking where I will jump 60%

I believe that skills is the most important, but to play at a high level you gotta touch 11 feet

wheres the next isometric cycle day 😢

But that's only one position.. receiver and middle blocker ,way more about abilities..Even in the middle it's where you actually gotta be big..but if you not reading the game,not fast on lateral movements.cant find a quick ball from out of systems sets.Its doesn't matter matter how high u reach

Please play volleyball one more time!!! If you’re a lefty try playing on the right side of the court. It’ll be more comfortable with your approach and hitting

Why you have left hand runup but u are right hand player?

Your training advice is on point, but not really executable at the highest levels. Professional athletes basically play through the whole year ( 9 months for a club and the rest for the national Team with maybe a couple of weeks of). The higher the level the more important the jump height is. Most of the top players are also above 2m tall and have a High standing reach. You need skill, but you cant teach height.

Volleyball world is big, basketball might be bigger in America but volleyball worldwide is big Bruh

Yuji has a recorded vert of about 54 inches so id rather listen to him

Highest jumper in the world

Max reach depends if player libero or spiker, if spiker, max reach: 8/10 skill: 10/10 if libero, max reach 0/10, skill: 10/10. If no skill u cant play volley, if no jump u use ur brain