BLOCKING with Travis Hudson

• 0:46 - Travis’ approach to blocking practices.
  • Physicality is a big part of blocking.
  • Training blocking technique to make up for lack of physicality.
  • Maximizing the capabilities of your individual blockers.
• 3:16 - Effective blocking games Travis uses in practice.
  • Eye sequencing.
  • Verbalizing.
• 7:08 - Identifying the cause of errors through verbalization.
• 8:06 - “Late and right rather than early and wrong”
• 8:54 - Why Travis sometimes doesn’t want his pin blockers to swing block.
• 13:34 - Important technical aspects Travis focuses on.
• 17:56 - Why Travis has his setters change tempos during blocking practice.
  • Train blockers - only the setters and attackers know the tempo that they are running.
• 18:45 - Common characteristics of the best blockers.
  • Variability - Travis’ best blockers were good at blocking for different reasons.
• 21:47 - If a blocker isn’t as physical as some others, how can they make up for that lack of physicality?
  • Keeping things simple and trying to get good touches.
  • Pressuring the attackers rather than trying to completely shut them down.
• 24:12 - Time spent working on blocking during practices.
  • Depending on the time of the season.
• 26:01 - Training competitiveness in blockers - what Travis believes to be one of the most important characteristics in good blockers.
• 28:39 - Why Travis spends time with Western Kentucky fans, teaching them volleyball and the rules.
  • Growing the volleyball fanbase.
• 33:21 - Foreseeable challenges to Western Kentucky’s success.

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