Application *Presenting Dec. 9th Timeline of project: September- November (3 months) Participants involved: WOU Volleyball Team and Coaching Staff
Timeline Changed serving: standing in the middle only and hitting short and deep slot serve. Changed serving: some back to jump serving and others to just more deep serves Changed serving: just get it in vs. tough and ok to miss Sept 7 post match Min Manketo: drinks with Diane and James: psychological aspects of player problem solving, conceptual coaching, she saw our biggest issues was that our players were afraid to make errors, james saw our serving as an issue. Her setter isnt great but she modified the mentality of the hitters and passers to compensate for it. Learn to hit anything and learn to control the first touch. Sept 21 CWU at home Sept 19 NNU at home
Timeline (continued) Sept 25 (Concordia Match): Dr. H tells us at crush about this class and external focus Sept 28 Saint Martins away: Started reading the inner game of tennis book Oct 3 Anchorage match away: reinforced prayer for passing week before, put balls in the corner to focus on serving target (becky hit first time), Jordin/Erin Rainbow set analogy, Christie, trace the ball from setters hands for blocking, Sam dent the floor, Oct 4 Fairbanks Practice: clock to hit the ball Oct 4 Fairbanks Match away Oct 7 Erin, Cover the ball, stamp it clean wasnt until 10/30/11 that she understood the stamping after asking how to keep the shape when she runs to ball it becomes harder Oct 10 Simon Fraiser at home Oct 12 Western Washington at home
Timeline (continued) Oct 14 Shifted passers to trajectory based on distance effect, all but Lani should have kept more of them at prayer stage. Oct 17 SPU away Oct 19 MSUB away: shifted to structured mindset during matches, runs of 3, responding to points Oct 19-Oct 26: practiced runs of three during 6 on 6 drills did 6 on 6 whole practice Oct 26 SMU at home Oct 28: changed to faster sets, added quick 2s Oct 29: had horrible practice due to changes and high pace environment Oct 30: switched back to fundamentals based on the multi-tasking article, and insights from motor learning research about variation in a single-task vs. varied tasks. Oct 31 Fairbanks at home Nov 2 Anchorage at home
Timeline (continued) Nov 4-Nov 6 practice Nov 4 th : motor learning class talked about Gentiles categorization (spatial/temporal) tried it with jump serves today (11/5) in practice and it seemed to have a positive effect. Also reflected on sams sequencing of hitting (breaking down arm, jump, timing etc. and how much less frustrated she was). Nov 6 practice at WWU Nov 7 match at WWU Nov 8 practice at SFU Nov 9 match at SFU
Timeline (continued) Nov 14 th home vs. MSUB Nov 16 th home vs. SPU Nov 21 st away at NNU Nov 23 rd away at CWU Alaska Anchorage/Fairbanks The week prior we did passing prayers and while at Anchorage we did serving targets and while at Fairbanks we did clock ball External Focus for Hitting Varied Shots We used the face of a clock to represent the location on the ball that would need to be hit for a specific shot. At this time it is worth noting that we had all hitters (both right and left sides) hitting on both the right and the left. Traditionally, the right side hitters hit the majority of their balls on the right while left side hitters hit on the left. The added complexity of 4 different shots and two of which being mirror images depending on the side they are hitting left the external focus ineffective. Montana State Billings 11/14/13 The structuring of responses After Saint Martins, and the success of both billings and smu we shifted back to faster sets Christie and I worked on hitting high on the ticker Theories Dynamic Systems Theory Individual (Cognitive Theory) Task (Motivation, Perception, Goal Theory) Environment (Learning Theory)
Journal Video Organize folder Research articles that support findings Comparison to traditional Coaches perspective Players perspective Differences between skills
Good but not in right spot Player assessment Coaches assessment translation Distance effect Performance focuses Translation from tradition-compressed version