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Hello everybody and welcome to the Better at Beach podcast. I'm filling in as Mark today. My name is Brandon Joyner. I'm going to be riding solo today. Mark is currently in Florida, setting up his Airbnbs, getting them ready for more camps and more opportunities. So he's busy building furniture and taking care of baby Mac. And so you guys get to listen to me today.
Today, we are going to be talking about the three most common setting mistakes that I've seen. I've been doing a lot of coaching recently. And while I've been going through this coaching, I've picked up on three main things that I really think can make people that are uncomfortable setters into extremely comfortable setters. And so.
That's what we're going to talk about today. I'm going to give you those ideas. I'm also going to give you some drills that you can work on at home or with your group to help you accomplish those things. Before we get going, I just want to go through and I want to talk about the camps that we have coming up. If you want to work with us in person, obviously all the YouTube videos, all the Instagram videos, listening to our podcast is fantastic. You're going to get better in that sense as well. But
If you want to see us in person, that's where we can make the huge improvements. So come check us out at a camp. coming up, we, have our seven day camp. Okay. And Punta Cana Dominican Republic. is beautiful, all inclusive resort. That is a week long camp. So full of vacation, full of fun, full of partying, full of volleyball. And that is going to be from November 29th to December 5th. Then.
We hop on the road for our Better at Beach Circus traveling circus where Mark is going to be May 23rd to the 25th in St. Pete, Florida, running a camp at his private court at his Airbnb. Then he is heading up north to New York where he's going to be running May 30th to June 1st in Long Island, New York. The next two camps are unfortunately sold out, but we do come back often. May 30th to June 1st, I will be in San Diego, California.
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And then the following weekend, June 6 to June 8, we are going to be in Tacoma, Washington. Both of those again are sold out, but we're going to be adding more dates pretty much right after these camps. So if you want to attend one of those, be sure to grab a spot quick. Those always sell out. Then towards the end of June, June 20th to the 22nd, I'm heading home to Virginia, hanging out in Virginia Beach, my hometown. Chester's my hometown, but...
Virginia Beach was my home for a while before I moved to California. I'm gonna be there from the 20th to the 22nd. Then I'm making my way to Milwaukee to run a camp with Bolly Life from June 27th to the 29th. Then we have a little bit of a break. July 18th to the 20th, we're going to be in Des Moines, Iowa. Then we are going July 25th to the 27th in Bend, Oregon.
August 1st to the 3rd will be in Santa Rosa, California. First time going there, so I'm really excited to see what that's all about. August 22nd to August 24th, we will finally be making our way to Chicago. We've been, trying to get to Chicago for the last couple of years, finally found a home. So we will be there at 3D Side Outs. October 3rd to the 5th, we will be in Youngsville, Louisiana at Sugar Beach.
So that's what we currently have on the schedule for our camps. Once again, if you're interested in meeting us in person, learning from us, our in-person camps are not only fun, but extremely rewarding for you as volleyball players. It's always a cool opportunity to get better at the entire sport in one weekend, three-day weekend. And then also you have that Punta Cana set up where we're going for a full week.
and you get to hang out with us, become best friends. And that sounds pretty nice too. So yeah, keep an eye on our camps page. Link is below. And we always add to that schedule pretty consistently. So if we haven't come to your area, go ahead and drop a comment and let us know if we should come to your area. That's always the way that we start those conversations and we meet people that are from different areas. If you have a facility.
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If you know of courts in the city that we can reserve, give us that information. We'd love to come. We'd love to figure out ways to make our way around the U.S. and provide these camps to you guys. Other than that, California. I currently am running all the stuff in California. So we have our normal weekly schedule where you can drop into classes. That can be found on the BAB Hermosa app, different than our Better at Beach.
which is for our online portion. Our BAB Hermosa app is where you'll find all of our classes. And then we have many clinics and three-day camps coming to Santa Monica. We're getting ready to, by the end of the week, we should have another three-day camp coming to Santa Monica in the month of June. That weekend is still undecided. We're figuring out the permits. But along with that, we are also going to be running
Little Sunday many clinics where we meet up from 9 to 12. We have an extreme focus whether it's passing setting attacking Side out something like that But we run those at least two times a month in Santa Monica at the Annenberg Beach House Awesome area really easy to get to park right next to the courts. There's a little cafe. It's a it's a fun fun time so
If you have any questions about camps, if you want us to come to your area, or if you just have any questions, reach out to supportatbetteratbeach.com. We'll figure out how to get you to one. All right. Now it's time to start talking about setting. So setting is one of those skills that there's a lot of technique. And obviously the first thing that I want to start with is that even though we are talking about setting,
The most important touch in our volleyball touch is passing. Make sure that you pass the ball first. All of these keys and ideas that I'm going to give you today, we need to have a good pass. So refer back to a recent podcast or join our online group that is currently working on serve receive, but have to start with a pass. Okay. Now moving into common mistake number one, and that is
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Don't be a ball watcher. All right. One of the biggest struggles that we see is that whenever somebody is setting, when the ball gets served to their partner, they are still standing in the serve received position while their partner is passing the ball. Okay. That causes a lot of things. One, it causes the passer to start passing the ball back to the setter. So now the setter is having to set the ball from
15, 20 feet off the net. And two, even if they do pass the ball well, you are stressing yourself out and stressing your attacker out so much because you are having to sprint to make a set rather than move to it calmly. So the fix that I want you to think about is whenever the ball is coming over the net, by the time that the ball crosses the net, you should have a good idea of whether or not you are the passer or the setter.
If you are the setter, meaning that your partner got served, you need to get out of that passing location. What that means and what that looks like is that you should start to cover the distance of where that passing location should be. For us at Better Beech, we like to pass right in the middle of the court. If you're going to error, miss on your half, but middle of the court, about six feet from the net. That's not very far. So it's pretty tight.
We need to make sure that we're passing forward, not up. So I always say this at my camps, but when we're thinking about the angle of our platform as a passer, if we angle the ball forward, getting the ball up in the air happens automatically. But if we angle, if we try to think about passing the ball up first, instead of forward, then getting the ball forward does not happen automatically. So as passers pass to the net.
Now that we know where that setting location is, whenever we realize that we are not the passer, we need to cover the distance to the setting location, the middle of the court, six feet off the net. So by the time your partner passes the ball, you should already be about halfway. For a lot of us, that's like four or five feet.
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Right. So once I see that this ball is going to my partner, I need to release from that passing position and I need to get kind of in between my passer and that setting location. That will allow me as a setter to remain extremely calm. One of the conversations that I've had recently with a lot of the players that I've coached is that volleyball is an extremely stressful sport. And it's our jobs as players, especially with the first two touches.
to eliminate as much stress as we can. So if we're having to sprint after a ball and make a really aggressive touch on our set, that's adding stress to the play. But if we're able to remain calm and cover that distance a little bit, maybe a slow little jog to them covering half the distance to the setter spot, then the rest of our set will feel extremely similar.
So it shouldn't feel like we're having to sprint after these passes if they pass well. Once that pass happens, then we can use our calm steps to finish. We like to finish with an off-foot, net-foot set. And that should allow you to remain calm and set the balls that your passer is hoping to pass. So if we hang back so long,
What happens is we're actually punishing our passer for passing well. And that's not something we want to do. So as a setter, you need to trust your passer. When that ball goes over the net, cover that distance, allow that passer to pass in front of you. You're going to be like a little cue for them that it's okay to pass the ball close to the net because you've already covered that distance, right? And then you can reward them with a really calm and controlled set instead of having to sprint after it.
and add stress to the play. Okay, so that's the first common mistake is that we see people waiting back too long causing more stress of the play. If you get to the ball, like so let's say whenever that pass happens and you've covered your distance and all of a sudden the passer doesn't pass to where they're supposed to, one, be a good partner.
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It's still our job to set. So if they don't pass to the pass to the setter location, that's OK. That's when we turn into a good partner and we save the pass. We always want to better the ball. But it's also important that we think about getting to the net and rewarding them for good passes. If we start to rely on bad passes and we're setting all of those, we're kind of making our job of signing out more difficult.
So now that we figured out a way to get to the ball calmly brings up our common mistake number two, which is making sure the mistake is that we don't have our platform or our handset reception ready. The fix is making sure that you're presenting your platform if you're bump setting or presenting the basket of your handset early so that the ball knows where it's bouncing off of.
Okay, a lot of the times setters surprise the ball. And what that looks like is we're kind of just playing keep the ball off the ground. We run in and we just hit the ball and hope that it goes to a nice location. But if your platform setting, some ideas that I want you to think about is one, our setting is more of a leg movement than it is an arm movement when we're talking about platforms. Okay.
We want to make sure that we are showing our platform. Our platform should almost be parallel to the sand. And then we are going to rise up with our feet and our legs, allowing ourselves to give power to the ball. It's still okay to give a little bit of extra love with your platform, but you never really want to completely rely on your platform when you're setting.
A common cue that we use at our camps that I love and I think it goes a long way is imagine you're carrying a tray of champagne. And when you go to set, you can never spill any of the champagne. So if you guys can imagine yourselves right now and you're holding a tray of champagne out in front of you, if you dip your arms forward, like you're going to pass a ball, like in serve receive, then all of those glasses of champagne fall off that tray.
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You've ruined the party. It's over. Everyone's upset. So no, we're not going to drop any champagne. We're going to keep our arms parallel to the ground. And in order for us to get any power we need, we're going to almost like spring load our legs and then release our spring so that we're all, it's almost going to feel like you're jumping up into this pass, but don't ever leave the ground, right? We still want to keep our feet on the ground. You want to have a stable base.
All right, so that's platform setting. If we have a good pass in that setter's location and we get that platform early and we lift, that's going to provide a more up and down set. always say this morning, I coached our morning training group and a key that worked really well for us is when you're setting, you should be able to set the ball and then take maybe one, two, maybe three steps and catch your own set.
think a lot of us set this ball extremely far away from us to where we might have to run and take five or six steps in order to catch our own set. We want to make sure that we play more compact. And if you use this style of setting where you have your platform out, you're carrying that tray of champagne, and then you use your legs to make the set rather than your arms, it will provide this more up and down type set, allowing your attacker to feel really comfortable and know where they're going to hit. All right.
Now moving on to handsetting. Hopefully all of you guys are handsetting at this point. Handsetting is the way of the future. The sooner you figure out how to do it, the better you're going to do in your trainings and in your tournaments. So if you haven't started learning how to handset, you have to start now. We're currently in our passing portion of our online program. Next, we are going to be moving on to our setting, I believe. And if you are not a handsetter,
Even if you only sign up for our program for two months, I guarantee you within those two months of working on our online program, you will become a handsetter. It's what we focus on. We're really good at it. At our camps, we don't call doubles for the reason that we want people to use their hands as much as they can. And we always walk away from our camps with people feeling way more confident with handsetting. Okay. The ideas that we need to think about with handsetting is one.
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We need to prepare our basket early. And so what I mean by that is we want to be ball shaped. And whenever we're thinking about being ball shaped, if you guys can imagine, if you have a ball at home, I want you to grab it real quick and I want you to put your hands on the ball and you'll notice that there are three panels. So if you're using a Wilson or a molten, I want you to read that molten or Wilson and you'll notice that the Wilson is in the middle panel.
Then there's a panel above it and a panel below it. When you're handsetting, you should not be touching any of those panels. You should be touching the outside panels. So when you're going to handset, one of the biggest issues that we see is that people touch the bottom of the ball. And when you're touching the bottom of the ball, it becomes very
Strong-fingered strong thumbed it doesn't rely it doesn't allow you to have soft hands a lot of times when you hear setters talk or your coaches talk or volleyball players in general talk They use this word like soft soft hands or they use like butter right those are buttery hands and the reason that they use those is because The set itself is extremely quiet. It's extremely soft
One of my favorite noises at our camps is whenever we start to handset on like day two or day three, and all of a sudden the camp gets completely silent because people have figured out a way to use these hands softly. And the way that they do that is by creating this basket early. And it's going to feel like you're almost catching the sides of the ball rather than the bottom. Two things happen when you touch the sides of the ball. When you touch the sides of the ball, it's going to make you feel more comfortable and taking the ball lower.
So when we're setting up our basket, we want it to be in front of our face. If you want to experiment and you want to try to take it even closer to your chest, go for it. I think the most common error that we see with hand setting is that people try to touch the ball too high. And when that happens, it can cause a lot of issues because you don't have the ability to take that ball in enough to make it a soft set. And two, you're kind of.
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making what we call a hard set where you're setting underneath the ball and you're getting that ball out really quick. If you're playing on the international circuit, if you're playing in a high level AVPs, they really like that idea of high and quick. But for those of you that are trying to learn how to handset, we need to start lower rather than higher. And you can always find what's more comfortable for you and what a clean set feels like. But I'm always a big teacher and make aggressive changes.
If you're a person that touches the ball too high and you consistently double, if you consistently lift the ball, meaning that you touch the ball too high, you bring it down and then you set, then experiment. Try to touch the ball as close to your chest as possible and then make your set.
This is going to be kind of hard to explain on a podcast, but whenever we're thinking about handsetting, I think a lot of us think about it as a handset in the sense of we're only using our hands. Right. But that's not what a handset is. A handset is the fact that we are only, we're just doing the skill and it's touching our hands, but it's not actually a whole lot of hand or finger action.
It's more of catching the ball low in a basket and then relying on an elbow extension to get that ball out of your hands. So if right now you are really concentrating on catching that ball or touching the ball with your fingers, loosen up those hands a little bit. Think about the ball is just landing in like a bowl that you're holding and then see how much power you can get on the ball just by extending.
your elbows. Whenever we are hand setting, we should go through a complete movement of taking that ball in with our hands and then finishing with our arms and our hands completely extended. If you're finishing with your elbows bent still, or if you never make it to the top, then you want to make sure that you're catching that ball low and relying on the elbow extension.
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If you pull up any high level volleyball player, you'll notice that their handsets happen because their arms almost seem like they're on tracks. And when they extend their elbows, that track is complete. But if they don't go through the track, then that's when sets can be inconsistent and they can be tough. So try to think about the handset as we're just touching the ball with our hands, but we're still relying on a full body movement in order to make the set. All right. I would say you're.
your hand finish or your fingers like pushing the ball out should be about five to 10 % of your setting motion. Whereas right now, I think a lot of us think of it as maybe 40 to 50 % of our motion. So rely on the structure, rely on the finish and that'll be good. okay. So that's our little technique talk when we're talking about bump setting and we're talking about hand setting. Okay.
Whenever we're moving on, so the third one is it all has to do with what do we feel like during our set and after. Okay, so the third common mistake is that people aren't balanced. Whenever you are setting, whether you're using a bump set or a handset, you should be able to hold your finish until your partner touches the ball.
Okay. And what I mean by that is I'm not just talking about our platform. I'm not just talking about our handset. We just talked about our, how our handset we finish in a completely straight arm position. That's the, that's the top portion. The bottom portion might be even more important. So whenever you are setting, you should feel, especially your front leg, because when we're setting, we should be having forward momentum. we should, whenever we say off foot, net foot set.
What that means is that as we're approaching the net, the foot that's further away from the net should be our first step in our finish. And then we are finishing with our net foot or the foot that's closest to the net on contact. And when you're doing that, it's going to automatically give you this forward momentum. So when you're done, your net foot should have about, let's say,
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90 % of your body weight on it. And then that back leg is kind of just like a little kickstand that's keeping you from tipping over. All right. And when we go to this third common mistake, way too many people can't hold that position, which means that you're not in the right spot. You're not underneath the ball. And when you made your set, you were twisting or doing something that didn't allow you to hold that finish.
Okay. So it starts with our feet and it ends with our hands or a platform. But when you make your set, you should be able to play freeze tag and hold your finish, hold your feet act like they have roots in the ground, mainly that front one, the front one, the back one just has like a couple roots hanging on, but it could fall over. that front foot should have every single root that was ever on that plant is still holding on strong. And then.
It works your way, it works its way up your body. So then you're able to hold your platform or you're able to hold your setting finish by pointing at the sky, acting like you're Superman, whatever you need to do in order to make sure that you're holding that finish. Okay. I think that holding your finish is one of the best and easiest ways for
coaches specifically to see that you have more control. Way too many of us think about volleyball as like a hitting game where we hit the ball and then we pull our platform away. We should be thinking about holding our finish. Whenever I tell people this is probably one of the most common fixes I give at camp is that I want people to hold their finish just until their partner touches the ball. So if you're a passer pass the ball.
Hold your finish until that ball reaches its peak. Okay. Some people even hold it until it's about to go in their setters hands. You can still move while your platform is still together. When you're hold your finish, hold your feet, hold your arms, hold your hands up in the air until you see your attacker getting ready to hit. We don't have anything else to do. Right. Well, after we set that ball.
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If our partner hits it over the net, which hopefully they do, but if your partner hits it over the net, then the other team has to go through three touches before the ball gets back to you. So there's no reason that we can't hold that finish a little bit longer. I think that that, that will help a lot. All right. And I always say, like. Whenever, whenever we're setting, I, I relate setting to job interviews and.
whenever you walk into a job interview, you need to be.
almost borderline too confident, right? I'm not trying to give tips on how to get a job. I've been lucky enough to, was a teacher and they welcomed me in right away. And then my best friend hired me to work for his company. So I've been pretty lucky in the interview phase, but whenever you go into an interview, if you guys think about this, if you walk in shaky and kind of uncertain, then you're not likely to get that job.
You might be the most knowledgeable person in the room, but if you don't show that you're confident in yourself, then it's really hard for others to be confident in you. So when you're setting, you have to believe in yourself. You have to get underneath the ball. You have to be the most confident person on the court and you have to make sure that people remember you. So when you go to make that set, make your finish last long.
show them that you're confident. And when you're confident, what that looks like is you're not tripping over yourselves. You're able to hold your finish. You're able to be balanced. And I always say, the last, this is something like my dad taught me when I was in high school, was that whenever I'm giving a handshake, it's okay to make your handshake last too long. People remember long handshakes. So I've always been a person, whenever I meet somebody,
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I'm okay holding that hand a little bit longer than I should or holding eye contact a little bit longer because I know it's people remember that. And it's the same thing. If we're talking about an interview, if we're relating it to setting and we're relating it to the finish, right? The handshake is your last opportunity to make an impression. So when we go to set, if we set the ball and then run away, that's not a very good handshake.
That's almost like giving somebody a high five at the end of the interview. If you ever did that, I'm sure the person would be like, who is this guy? Who is this joker? Right. But if you're able to give a nice solid handshake, you're able to lock in, give some eye contact, hold that finish of that handshake as long as you can. I'm not sure if you'll get the job, but you're at least going to be remembered. And that's the first goal. Okay. So same thing when we're setting. We want to get the job.
We're gonna show up, we're gonna be confident, we're gonna be moving smooth, we're gonna have balance, we're gonna be controlled. And finally, when we make that set, our finish is the handshake at the end of the interview. We're going to make it last a little bit longer than it should be. We're going to hold that eye contact to make it borderline awkward, right? And once you make that set, I promise you, your attackers are gonna love it.
Because right now, one of the biggest issues that we see is that setters are not willing to hold their finish. And what that looks like for an attacker is they feel the exact same way that you make a set feel. You make it feel rushed as a setter, so now their approach feels rushed. And more than likely, they're ending up underneath the ball. If you're able to make that set last really long and really calm, and you show off that finish, your attacker's going to mimic that.
They're going to be looking calm. They're going to be able to have a slow first step of their approach and speed up their steps as they want. And they're going to be able to choose when they go attack rather than you making them choose when to attack. So really make sure that you're focusing on that strong finish. That's mistake number three. So we've gone through those three common mistakes. We started with.
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Making sure that you're not a ball watcher. Release. Release early enough that you're encouraging your passer to pass well. Reward them for those good passes. If you're able to kind of trot through your whole process of your set, you're doing a good job. If you feel at any point that you're having to sprint, you probably watched too long from that starting position. The second thing, show your platform early. Right?
whether we're using our platform to pass, we're not gonna drop any champagne, we're gonna get that platform out early, we're gonna use our legs, if we're using our hands, we're gonna make sure that our basket is low, we're gonna catch the sides of the ball, and then we're gonna go through a full track of our handset, allowing it to get to the top floor. So I always say, when you're handsetting, it should feel like you're riding in an elevator from the lobby all the way to the penthouse.
Some of you that touch the ball too early, it might feel like you're getting on the elevator at the third floor, going down to the lobby and then going up to the penthouse. We want to make sure that we're getting on at the lobby and then going through our full extension, getting all the way up to the penthouse. And then the third thing, hold your finish. Hold your finish with your feet, hold your finish with your platform or your hands, whichever you decide to do. Remember,
hopefully your hand setting, but, make it feel like an interview. Be confident, be strong, make that finish last a little bit longer so that you're remembered. I think that if you're able to do those three things in your next training, I guarantee you, you're probably gonna see a lot better sets. And once again, if you're interested in kind of getting our feedback, join our online program. This is what we do.
We work with a bunch of athletes right now. We work with a couple of clubs across the country where they take video of themselves. They send it to us. We give feedback and we send it right back to you. So it's a really easy way for you guys to get better, even if you can't come to us at a camp. But obviously the camps are going to give us some, a little bit quicker of a turnaround. All right. Last thing before we go is talking about some drills. So the first drill is something is some, is one that you can do at home.
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And what all I want, all you need is a ball and a wall. And all I need you to do is you're going to take the ball. You're going to toss it at the wall and then you're going to set the ball back to the wall.
What I would suggest doing is when you start this, draw a box with tape or something on the wall that's at like a good height, maybe around like 10 to 12 feet if you need a ladder. you don't have a ladder and your wall's a little bit shorter than that, just try to get as high as you can. But really what we're trying to do is we're just trying to find a little bit of accuracy. So all you're going to do is you're going to bowl the ball at the wall.
The reason I want you guys to bowl it is because when you bowl it, there's going to be spin that's created. And all you have to do is you're now setting the ball back to that designated spot on the wall. If you don't have approval, if you're a kid and you don't have approval from your parents to make a box on the wall, don't do that. Just imagine there's one. We don't need to scuff up anything. Ideally, if you can do this in like a racquetball court or something along those lines,
That's kind of the best way to do it. The second one is just a simple triangle drill. And you can kind of elevate this as you want, but a triangle drill, what it is, is there's usually a person at the net tossing to a passer. Passer passes the ball to the setting location. Setter sets back to the tosser. Okay, you can upgrade this by moving the tosser to the other side of the net. And then the setter can either let that set land on the ground.
or the passer can come in and hit. But you guys can figure that out. If you're an extreme beginner, then we can level this down by getting rid of that pass. So instead of the person tossing to a passer, the passer person would just start with the ball. They can smack the ball, letting them know that the setter can go. Then they toss a pass, and then the setter sets that to a target still.
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Once again, if you have three people, great. If you only have two use that last version, you can still get a lot of good work done. and then the third one would just be a simple side out drill. would suggest deciding what type of level you are at. If you're at a beginner or intermediate level, maybe the person on the other side of the net is just entering in kind of tosses and they're just tossing the ball to you. allowing for a good pass.
Hopefully that pass is controlled and then the setter can go in and make that set. If you feel like you're more advanced and you're ready to get going, then you can have that person enter in a serve, which obviously is going to make the pass more difficult. But if those types of drills, that type of kind of progression will allow you to work on all of those three common mistakes that we talked about today. and yeah, I think if you're able to do all those three things. So whenever I'm setting, I kind of have a checklist.
and that it's just a mental checklist that I try to go through. And it's those three things. As the ball's coming over the net, I try to check off box one. Leave early, get to that middle ground between my passing position and my setting location if they pass really well. Check that box. Once the ball gets passed, then I go on to my second box that I need to check. Second box that I need to check is show my platform early.
or show my basket early. Okay, once I check that box, then my third box is hold my finish. If I'm able to check off three out of three of those boxes, nine times out of 10, my set is really, really good. If I miss one of those boxes and I still have two, it's usually an okay set, but if I miss it more than two, if I miss at least two or all three of those, I'm just hoping.
And who knows what's going to happen. So check off all those boxes, make sure that you're working on all those, all those different things. And it's cool because they're all at different portions of the set. So hopefully our brains can move quickly through that process and we can still focus on all those things. so those are our three common mistakes before you guys go. I want you to comment below on which common mistake you are currently making. So.
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Is it one, two or three? Right? Go ahead and write out why you're doing it or why that what the mistake actually is. If it's, if it's something other than that, add that in there too. I would love to add to my list. try not to overwhelm my players, but if, if there's another common mistake out there that I'm missing, I would love to hear about it. And so, yeah, that's hand setting or pet or bump setting three common ways that you can easily get better.
I hope you guys practice it this week. If you do get a chance to practice it, let us know how that goes too. Find the podcast, find the comments, let us know. We love little celebration stories as well. I had a cool celebration this morning with my morning group. She, her name is Anna and she's played with a group here for a really long time. And she has kind of said like the week before our classes started, she played with a group and she didn't win any games.
And we've gone through a lot of passing and setting with our group. And this last week, she won every single one of her games and her partners were complimenting her passing in her setting, like almost after every single point. And that's like such a big win for us as coaches. I was so happy when she shared that with me this morning because one, it's a, it's kind of honoring the fact that she's showed up to practice. She's been extremely meaningful with her touches. and then two, it's always fun.
for us to see that the improvements are coming and we get to celebrate that with our players. So I appreciate you guys. That's all I have for you guys today with the podcast. Once again, if you want to come see us in person, our camps are firing. We have more coming on the schedule every single week. So keep an eye on our camps page or join us at one of our already upcoming camps. Punta Cana, don't miss out on it. It's always a fun one. It's my favorite camp that we've ever run.
It's really cool. And then our online coaching. Once again, we talked about that a couple of times today. If you guys are interested in doing that, you can sign up on the better at beach.com website. You can follow the path, whether you're a kid or a junior or an adult. And, we can figure out how to get you going and help you get better. So, that's our goal. if you guys have any ideas on future, future episodes that you would like to hear about us, let us know.
Brandon Joyner (39:53.346)
We do this podcast for you guys. Mark and I like talking to each other, but we like talking about other things that will help people get better. So feel free to give us a shout out and let us know what we could do to help you guys get better. All right. I will see you guys next week. Mark should be back with me in the studio. We missed him today, but I think we had a good one with talking about some setting.
And hopefully you guys are able to implement that in your playing this week. So I appreciate you guys. We will see you next week. And we'll see you on the sand. Have a good one, guys. Bye.
