Spend any time discussing setting with another coach, and “what type of footwork do you teach?” pops up pretty quick. It tends to be a hot button issue at ou...

Question:  “We have all seen the girl that does a “shot-put” arm motion when serving. What have you tired that has helped?” Answer:  Carl McGown has been tal...

Gold Medal Squared Volleyball Camps and Volleyball Clinics Blocking is an interesting skill to talk about.  I’ve often times wondered why blocking, and speci...

Of all the skills we must teach young kids, serving and passing must be at the top of the list. Mastery of these skills takes a long time so they must begin ...

My last blog entry was about teaching kids how to play the entire game by allowing them to perform all skills in practice and matches. There is an offensive...

Is the Split-Step Worth Teaching in Volleyball? We have been experimenting with a step-hop (or split-step in Tennis) with our passers, and have been encourag...

Perhaps no other skill in volleyball is taught so differently as setting. I have seen many great setting coaches train their setters in completely dissimilar...

Written by GMS Advisory Staff Member Ron Larsen During my tenure as an Assistant Coach with the USA Men’s Team, I often had the opportunity to talk to Hugh M...

Game-like Serving is the only skill in volleyball that begins and ends with the individual. You toss, you hit. You don’t have to react to another player’s...

How to Dig a Volleyball If you visit the Gold Medal Squared Volleyball facebook page, scroll down the wall until you get to the video titled 133 Volleyball D...

Once the initial movement patterns have been taught to our hitters, what they need to look at in order to make the best swing possible becomes a critical par...

Teaching Young Volleyball Players How to Serve We have a thread going in our toolbox message board regarding teaching young kids how to serve.  Rob Browning ...

This post is in response to a number of recent emails with coaches looking for information on set location – In 2007, Nina Puikkonen Mortensen began work on ...

“Volleyball is a visual motor game, with an emphasis on the visual.” For those of you who have attended a Gold Medal Squared Coaches Clinic, you have heard t...

This is from Jeff Cole at NorCal VBC – he told us it was inspired by material covered in our LEVEL2 clinic. Some of us are visual learners and others of us a...

From a Coach: We say that serving is like throwing. But there are two or three players in our program who “shot-put” the ball instead of “throw it.” Any tips...