How To Position Your Body In Volleyball Video

Perfect body position allows the volleyball player to execute effective techniques on both offense and defense. Learn how to get into perfect body position in this volleyball video.

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Keep left toe staggered with right foot
Keep knees out
Keep back at 45 to 60 degree angle
Make the proper movement

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Todd is the head coach for the University of Central Florida's women's volleyball team. Prior to that he coached as USC where they competed in the division one final four. He has also been a part of the coaching delegation for the USA women's team in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece. He was an assistant at Michigan University early in his career and simply loves the sport and coaching it where ever he is.

TODD DAGENAIS: In this clip, we're going to show you how to get into perfect body position. With me here, I have Kristine from Clearwater, Florida, and she's going to show you all the aspects of the perfect body position. We're going to start by making sure that her left toe is staggered with her right foot in a left toe to right instep relationship. This staggered position helps you keep your body balanced. From there, it's very important that we have the knees out over the toes and the shoulders out over the knees. One last component is we want to make sure that the hands stay inside the elbows. Now, this is the body position that we want to move in all the way through. In addition to that relationship, we want to make sure that the back is somewhere near a 45- to 60-degree angle and all the movement is done in this body position. As you're going to see in other clips, when you're trying to contact the ball, whenever you touch the ball, you want your back to be in this body position. The only way that you move up and down is going to be based on how much your knees are bent. From there, you can see that Kristine is maintaining this perfect body position all the way through. Now, from that perfect body position, you can move one of several different ways. The four most common ways that we use here is from that body position, you're going to shuffle side to side and forward and backwards to get your feet to the ball in order to play it. Number two, is your going to use some sort of a step shuffle to play a ball that's in front of you. You're going to step and shuffle maintaining that perfect body balance and position. The third one that we use is what we call a drop. We start in our base position. As the ball is set to a hitter, we move our feet in what we call a drop and that puts you in position to dig a ball on your perimeter line. The last thing that we're going to do is we're just going to simply run to the ball. The ball is going to be really far away from you. You're going to be in your athletic body position which is going to allow you to gather your body and chase after and run after a ball.

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