Volleyball Spartans Rockin' The Palace on Ballas

From the calloused hands of the weightlifters to the soft hands of the setter....Took some video of my boys the DeSmet Spartans (in home white) in their first match of the season against big Metro Catholic Conference rival CBC Cadets (in purple). The Spartans won in three, after letting game two slip away to a scrappy CBC bunch.

The St. Louis area has some fine boys high school and club volleyball. Check out the video and see what good boys volleyball is all about. Many of the larger schools in the area sport THREE teams: freshman, JV and Varsity! How cool is that to see these young men working together and duking it out on the volleyball court in the spring!

Here's the link to an embedded WMV file of about 6 minutes of highlights of a 90 minute match. Right click on the video to zoom into full-screen viewing. Feel free to click on the DeSmet Volleyball link at the top of the page, go to the video box and download the 23 MB file if you want some footage of boys volleyball.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Form and Function

Image
Way back in 2002, I scanned these images by Howard Schatz from Sports Illustrated (October 14, 2002). A fascinating array of elite female athlete physiques, heights and weights, eh? These are some of the women featured in his book Athlete --a very cool pictorial essay that celebrates athletic form and function.
Read more

It's About Preparing People, not Preventing Injuries

ACL injuries do not happen in a void. People sustain injuries when their infrastructure is unable to manage a specific set of physical circumstances. To describe the mechanism of the injury without the context of the person and their level/type of sport, is to miss valuable insight. In sport, we prepare the person, to the best of our understanding, to meet the physical demands of that sport. We do not just work to prevent one particular injury; we prepare athletes to navigate the total sport physical environment. By "we" I mean the coaching and support staff -- specifically the athletic development staff.  Athletic development (AD) coaches prepare athletes through the development of physical literacy and movement competencies via movement progressions. It is more than strength, power, agility; it is the acquisition of knowledge, skills, abilities and behaviors to manage themselves within the entire sporting environment. At the higher levels of sport, AD coaches coordinate wit...
Read more

Strength: Overcoming Tradition & Assumptions

Image
The term "strength" comes with many images and stereotypes. The most common stereotype usually includes intimidating men who look like action figures, in spaces that look like iron jungles. Strength is associated with mass gain, limb girth increases, muscle hypertrophy and maximal force production against an external load. With regard to lower body strength, we speak in terms of multiples of bodyweight (BW), with the ratio of 2x BW historically viewed as necessary and desirable. We have historically trained in terms of 1 RM. There has been a trend recently to adopt a VBT (velocity based training) approach, as we know 1 RM changes on a daily basis and technology now allows us to more finely tune things with velocity as the target within each set. These things can be helpful as we initially learn to measure and document progress. But I think it is important to step back from this narrow outlook, because this view of strength does not serve all of us well, in either the rehab or...
Read more