Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Summer clinics and camps with Xplosion vbc

Xplosion vbc would like to offer the clinics below this summer.
Most likely  we will offer clinics around June 8th or 9th and each following week on either Monday or Tuesday night. There will be a link to sign up for clinics that will open once the dates have been finalized.

Setting clinic
Session 1: Fundamentals and lots of repetition
Session 2: Setting from a system. How to be a 5-1 setter or a 6-2 setter.  Understanding the setter position from the two most utilized offensive systems and getting practice in these systems.

Hitting Clinic
Session 1:  Hitting with power. Training the body to swing harder, faster, and generate more hitting and serving power.
Session 2: Hitting with control. How to contact the ball with a purpose of placement and control.

Passing Clinic
Session 1: Platform or forearm passing, overhead passing, and footwork based drills and instruction.
Session 2: How to be a great defender and how to improve as a passer in serve receive.

All Skills Clinic:
Session 1: 10s to 12s all skills in volleyball such as the clinics mentioned above plus serving and communication.
Session 2: 13s to 14s all skills in volleyball with more advanced drills and challenging goal setting.

15s to 18s players 
We will offer clinics such as the ones listed above in a small group setting.  We will place your daughter in a group of her peers and work on the type of skills the group wants to train in.  Small group is offer all summer with the exception of a few weeks.  Email coachjamesh@gmail.com to get signed up for a small group.

BYOP--Bring Your Own Parent--Parents often ask "What can I do at home to help my daughter improve?"  This clinic will provide many good drills, teaching techniques, and commonly used cue words from college level coaches to help the parent teach/instruct their daughter at home better.

Session 1: Fundamental passing, setting, hitting, and serving
(Focused towards 10s-13s with two or fewer years of club experience)

Session 2: Advanced skills: taking the fundamentals and implementing footwork and movement
(Targeted towards advanced players of 12s and 13s, and players who are 14s or 15s and need more development at home.)

BYOC--Bring Your Own Coach--Many parents love to coach from their seats court side and the goal of this clinic is to help a parent understand how to coach from the bench during play as a coach. This clinic will go over the basic differences of offense systems like the 4-2, 5-1, and 6-2 and you will get an understanding why many coaches like these systems. Furthermore we will discuss timeout situations and when to call timeouts, as well as pregame, during the game, and post game comments that are appropriate and effective with the players. During this clinic a group of girls will will be present to practice some coach strategies and run a drill with them so you can try a hands on demo and get feedback from coach James at the end of the clinic.

Session 1: Coaching 14s and under

Session 2: Coaching 14s and under

Session 3: Coaching 15s and above


Physical training plus volleyball clinic

13s to 15s--What it really takes to bypass your teammates and become an elite level athlete.  A description and sampling of age appropriate high level physical training drills in all areas such as agility, free weights, jump training, and core strength. Format will be one hour of volleyball plus one hour of physical training.




Field House summer league 2 with Xplosion vbc



The deadline to sign up with Xplosion to participate in the summer leagues at the Fieldhouse or the courts is May 1st.  Email coachjamesh@gmail.com with questions or see below for instructions to sign up.

Dates: May 14 to July 30
cost: $300 per team entry fee to the league
cost: $200 for the coach per team
cost: $975 for court rental and practice lead instruction from coach James per team
Total cost per person on an 8 person team: $185
Total cost per person on a 9 person team: $164

To sign up for summer league please email coachjamesh@gmail.com with the following info:
1. Players Name
2. Parents Name
3. Email address
4. Cell Phone number
5. Are you providing your own coach for league play? (Yes/No) If "yes" is the answer to this question provide the name, email, and cell number for the coach and the coach must go through a team practice with coach James prior to the league play, understand the lineup provided by coach James, and their role as a coach who is representing the club in the league. If the coach is not willing to be a positive member of Xplosion vbc for the league, or they feel like they cannot work with the lineup coach James has provided, they will not be allowed to coach. If the coach does go through this process and wishes to coach for free...then the team will save the $200 coaching expenses above.
6. Are you signing up as an individual? (Yes/No)
7. If you answered "No" to the above question list the names of the girls you are bringing with you as teammates for the league. If I have multiple people who complete question 6 this will help me to keep a group of girls together for a summer league team.  Individuals will be placed on the best team possible for their skill level based on the club season, small group sessions with coach James, and the summer league open gyms that will be held the last week of April.

(Girls who did not play with Xplosion vbc this season will be asked to pay an additional $10 for a t-shirt jersey they can use during league play. If the team and players want to use official jerseys from the club season we do have some extra jerseys and the cost per jersey is $30 for a yellow mizuno v-neck or $45 for a long sleeve black mizuno national jersey depending on which jersey we are going to play in. Most likely the girls will play in their t-shirt jerseys if we have more than a few girls from outside the club on the team.)

Summer league open gyms from 6-8pm are located at the facility at 1020 Hawks Perch Nixa MO 65714 which is at the corner of Kathryn and Gregg Rd. Near Wal-Mart.
Monday 4-27-15--11s to 14s
Tuesday 4-28-15--14s to 16s
Thursday 4-30-15--11s to 14s

Summer league matches are played on Tue, Wed, & Thur nights
The team may play once, twice, or three times a week and may play more than one match on one evening.  Most likely the league and practices will take two nights a week and occasionally three nights a week. We won't know what night practices will be on or league matches until the the schedule has been released.

League plus practices--The team will practice one evening a week and play in the league. Practices will be 2 to 2:30 hours and may consist of skills, position, physical training, and team training.  The first two practices will most likely be held Monday 5-11-15 and Tuesday 5-12-15 prior to the first night of play in the league on 5-14-15. 

Notes from the Fieldhouse:
The Summer Volleyball Session at The Fieldhouse is now open for registration...  This is the biggest session of the year (last year we had over 80 teams) and since we usually have so many teams, we have added Tuesday nights to the mix of 'days of play' - the leagues will now be played on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays - We did this for 2 reasons: 1) this will give teams more options when requesting, with so many having softball and/or soccer plus family vacations - we want everyone to get to play when its convenient for them.
2) we are also hoping adding the extra day of play might eliminate so many 4:40 games :)