In early 2014 Volleyball1on1 Owner Andor Gyulai filmed a beach volleyball practice with AVP and FIVB player and coach Jason Lockhead. Jason at age 30 is one of the youngest beach volleyball coaches we have ever filmed and also one of the most talented. For the practice we brought in 3 high level USA Beach High Performance players to accompany Andor. 2 Players- Miles Evans and Alex Jones have both represented the United States in International FIVB Competition in Europe, while all 4 players including Dillion Lesniack and Andor Gyulai have finished at least in the top 21 on an AVP tour event.
Important points to consider with this practice:
– This practice occurred just after a 1 hour workout at Velocity Fitness. Click Here to see the Velocity Videos.
– None of the players had ever worked with Jason or had met Jason before this session
– Up until this point, none of the players played together consistently.
– Jason was given little to no guidance on what to do in practice.
The point, this is raw, unprepared beach volleyball training / coaching. This is what you would receive were you to visit Southern California, home to the best beach volleyball players and coaches in the world and got coached. Enjoy!
Video 1: Meet Jason Lockhead
Video 2: Mental Challenge Standing Shot Game Skill Building Warm Up Drill
This is an incredibly fun and challenging beach volleyball drill that will warm up players, improve skills, improve team communication and finally get players heads in the game of volleyball. The drill felt next too impossible when it started but by the time it finished all 4 players were juiced and excited for what was an incredible practice to follow which only built on this great first drill to start!
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Videos include:
Video 3: Beach Volleyball Self Setting Square Drill
Video 4: Pass, Set, Cover Hit, Set Hit Warm Up Beach Volleyball Drill
Video 5: Defense Drill, 2 Blocks Then a Line or Cut Hit to The Defender with Jason Lockhead
Video 6: Beach Volleyball Superman Defensive Technique – Hand Down for Control / 2 Ball – Defense Drill
Video 7: Jason Lockhead Beach Volley Defensive Mind Set Plus More Superman Defense Technique
Video 8: Jason Lockhead Beach Volleyball Blocking Tips – Pushing with Non Dominant Hand, What to Do With Hands
Video 9: Beach Volleyball Superman Scramble Defense Drill with Jason Lockhead
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This is one of the best warm up drills I have ever seen. Think about it, if you can concentrate enough to keep the ball moving while constantly being interrupted to throw/catch the extra ball, imagine how easy just a standard serve receive/side out session will feel!
This obviously builds concentration and ball control. when the extra ball is removed it will give the illusion that you have SOOO much more time to make a play…this teaches the player to relax, move efficiently and side out effortlessly.
Bravo Jason Lockhead!
We agree! I think it really set the tone for a great practice to follow!
Video 3 – That self setting square drill is intense. Got to give that a try with a few players.
It’d sure rattle them and give them a lot to think about. Same thins I’ve been constantly telling them; square to the target, keep your hands up, little steps, keep it forward. Definitely get the heart pumping and arms burning.
I like the mid video caption “this drill is tough, 3 out of 4 hve played for USA” lol I tried it out on my driveway just then and it was freaking tough (and it wasn’t even on sand lol)
I haven’t got through all the videos yet.
Thanks Jason and Andor 🙂
Thanks Peter!
Happy you are enjoying it! There is another version I do with Adriano Ticao where we are filming him with Casey Jennings! Here is the free version… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drl_sTHBxTk
I know you are a member but you will love this practice so check it out! https://www.volleyball1on1.com/instructors/adriano-ticao-volleyball/
I just noticed it is not showing up for some reason, I will make sure to get it back up!
Andor
Great drills from Jason and good set of videos. There were some few very useful and important tips on defence that it would be good to have seen Jason elaborate on and show these drills and skills with players getting them right or being coached to get them right. For example, I would have liked to have seen more on:
– Using the shuffle step to move slightly towards the likely shot rather than the ‘lean’, which throws you off balance and kills your ability to pick up any shot other than the one you’ve bet on being the likely shot
– The footwork and technique for moving in a low position, slowly getting even lower and then executing the hand down superman dig. We don’t see Jason or anyone doing this properly as all of the players doing the drill are running to the ball in a high position and then throwing themselves low to try and dig the ball. Jason explains the reason why this doesn’t work very briefly (the angles of diving from high to low quickly) but we don’t get more info from him on how to get it right
– Narrowing the shots you are going to pick up down to two. I’ve heard this a few times from a few excellent coaches and it’s about percentages, i.e. the set is off the net you narrow yourself down to hard cross and line-over (with a shuffle step not a lean) and if the set is tight you narrow yourself down to hard cross/sharp cross and the cut. I would have liked to hear more from Jason on what he watches for cues to tell him which two to narrow down to and then what he does in each situation
Perhaps some of these can be gone into in more detail with Jason or another coach on another set of defensive videos as it was a shame these things got touched on but not followed through fully…