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Performance Analysis in Volleyball Introduction: Cycle of Analysis The cycle of analysis is a process, which can be followed to ensure you always keep improving your game or skills. Following the cycle of analysis will ensure your performance keeps getting better without ever reaching a plateau.

Stage 1 Review & evaluate performance

Stage 6 Carry out plan of action Stage 5 Prepare plan of Action

Stage 2 Identify key points

Stage 3 Compare to model Performer

Stage 4 Identify Strengths and Weaknesses

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THESE are the tasks required for this criterion A volleyball assessment:
Check 1. PLAY a volleyball game and write up a general analysis (subjective analysis) of how you think you played with specific comments on your skills. 2. Make a FILM OF YOURSELF performing 3 skills. 3. VIEW video of Khun Sunday performing the skills and identify the key points of how to perform each skill. 4. IDENTIFY your strengths and weaknesses in performing the skills 5. PREPARE A PLAN of action to improve ONE of the skills and follow that skills improvement plan. 6. PLAY a volleyball game and evaluate your performance and the success of your plan

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There are two main ways to analyze a skill: Subjective analysis

Personal and completed through thoughts, feelings and opinions. When completing a subjective analysis the words I think and I feel will often be used. Subjective analysis of a game or skill will often be used to identify a starting for objective assessment or used to substantiate objective assessment.

Objective analysis

Factual and statistical, giving evidence as to what is actually happening in a game or skill. The information collected can then be used as a record for comparison later after a training programme has been followed. It is a starting point of where to improve from, and it can identify areas of weaknesses and strengths.

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Stage 1: Subjective Analysis: Evaluate Performance TASK 1: Play a game of general subjective application of the

volleyball then write a analysis of your following skills:

Underarm pass (dig), Overhead pass (set / volley) Overarm serve

In your analysis: Discuss the accuracy and effectiveness of these three skills in various situations. (200 words Max.) For example,

Can you set with precision for the attack?

Can you receive the serve? Consider how you perform these skills in relation to the specific part of the game.

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Stage 2: Breakdown of Volleyball Skills: Identify Key Points

TASK 2: For the three skills of volleyball, break each one down into preparation, contact of ball and follow through in terms of the key points for each of the phases. You can use the video footage supplied.

Use other volleyball resources (books, internet) to identify the key points of each phase of the skill.
Preparation (body position, arm action, leg action) Contact with ball (position of arm, body and legs) Follow Through/Recovery (arm action, body position, leg action)

SKILL

Overhead Pass

Underarm Pass

Overarm Serve

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Stage 3: Compare with Model performer / video analysis GQ: How have I demonstrated critical thinking skills to analyze my performance? TASK 3:
Use the video footage of the model performer supplied and the video you have taken of your performance. Analyse your performance and compare to the model performer to complete your objective analysis.

Identify your strengths and weaknesses. Make sure that you consider the following points in your analysis: How does my own performance differ from that of the model performances? Consider each of the three skills and each phase of each skill.

What areas of each of the phases of the three skills resemble the model performance? What do I need to do to improve my performance?

What are my strengths for each of the phases of the three skills?

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Present your analysis using the table below

SKILL Preparation (body position, arm action, leg action) Contact with ball (position of arm, body and legs) Follow Through/Recovery (arm action, body position, leg action)

Overhead Pass

Underarm Pass

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Stage 4: Prepare a Plan of Action (training)

Now you have identified your strengths and weaknesses in all 3 skills, you have to decide what you are going to do to improve them. This is called your plan of action. You can use books, videos, the internet, papers, magazines, and people with expertise like members of the P.E. department and coaches. TASK 4: Pick the skill which you feel needs the most work for improvement and write your plan of action (skill practice) to improve your areas of weakness in that skill. Your training programme should meet the following criteria:

Be 15 minute in duration Include one movement drill that focuses on your agility and volleyball movement on the court. This will be your warm up drill (3 minutes) Consist of various practices/ drills/ modified game situations that focus on your weak areas of each phase of the individual skill. Include 6 min individual practice and 6 minute drills with a partner Each drill focuses on one phase of your selected skill

Include the number of repetitions of each drill

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Back to Stage 1: Re-Evaluate Performance TASK 5: Now complete the following evaluation after the final game play to determine the effectiveness of your action plan
This unit has been specifically about learning to make judgements as to HOW you can learn best (on your own, in groups, by watching it, by hearing descriptions..) Did you engage in reflection and thinking? Could you transfer some of your prior knowledge from other games to this activity?

Describe your performance of during the game. Refer specifically to the skill you selected to improve. Consider your accuracy, control and consistency of each of the three main skills. Did you perform team plays with your team members? How?/Why not? Comment on your accuracy and your intentions if applicable. What areas did you feel you improved on? How did you know that you improved these areas of the skills? How effective was your skill practice / training? What do you still need to develop in terms of your passing/ serving and game play for year 11 PE? See the rubric for your assessment

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Criterion A: Use of Knowledge 0 The student does not reach a standard described by any of the descriptors given below. The use of volleyball terminology is inconsistent, inappropriate or incorrect. Demonstrates a limited knowledge of basic principles, concepts, strategies and techniques related to volleyball. Occasionally uses this knowledge to analyse and solve problems in familiar situations. Uses some basic volleyball terminology that is sometimes inaccurate or inappropriate. 34 Demonstrates a basic knowledge of basic principles, concepts, strategies and techniques related to volleyball. Sometimes uses this knowledge to analyse and solve problems in familiar situations. Uses some volleyball terminology, accurately and appropriately in some situations. 56 Demonstrates a good knowledge of basic principles, concepts, strategies and techniques related to volleyball. Often uses this knowledge to analyse and solve problems in familiar and some unfamiliar situations. Uses a range of volleyball terminology accurately and appropriately in most situations. Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of basic principles, concepts, strategies and techniques related to volleyball. Yesterday, in our first volleyball lesson (which was my first time playing volleyball ever), I was able to see what I wasUses at concerning volleyball, and what toneed to improve on. I think I can do a good this knowledge appropriately I analyse and solve problems in familiar andsure whether I was doing it right, since it was hurting my decent bump pass although Im not completely unfamiliar situations. wrists really badly. However, when I asked if I was hitting the ball in the right place on my wrist, khun Orr said I was doing it correctly, so I might just have to get used to it. 78 I cant yet do an overhead pass, at all. So thats a point Ill be focusing on. I think I can do a good serve, because I was able to get it over the net, and the 2/3 serves I did, I got a point for our team! Even though I thought I was good at a couple of these things, its possible I was just lucky. I think I need to learn the basic properties of the game before I start really training, because I dont want to hurt myself by doing something in-correctly. I would also like to learn how to do a bump-passs without hurtin my arms anymore!

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SKILL

Overhead Pass

Preparation (body position, arm action, leg action) - Right/Left foot is a little bit foreward, in a comfortable position. Your body weight should be balanced. - Feet, hips, and shoulders face the players on the other side of the net. - Knees are bent and back is straight; head is leaning forward; alert. - Keep hands above your head, in a ready position. -Fingers are open and hands are in a claw-like position, like the shape of the ball. - Thumbs are facing towards eyes.

goUnderarm Pass

- Keep your feet slightly apart, with your right/left foot foreward (preferable) - Keep your head foreward - Make sure youre comfortable.

Contact with ball (position of arm, body and legs) - When you hit the ball, make sure its above you head. - Make sure your hands are in a ready position, but dont clench them so much that its uncomfortable. - touch the ball with your fingertips, never your hands! Keeping the ball light on the tips of your fingers. -Make sure your arms are bent. - Keep body up, but remember to bend your knees. -when setting the ball, make sure all your energy goes into the set itself. -when your hands make contact with the ball, lean foreward and towards your right/left foot (preferable). - Body should be strong, but comfortable when you make contact. This should make the pass successful. - Ball should hit you on the area

Follow Through/Recovery (arm action, body position, leg action) - Keep your arms out wide in front of you, as well as your whole body itself. - whatever foot your not leaning on during the set, should naturally follow through, and foreward after your done.

- As the ball comes towards you, meet it half way before you make contact. Go into the ball. - Make sure your knees are flexible, and they are able to bend whenever needed to. - Make sure arms are 13

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Overarm Serve

- Make your body face whichever way you want the ball to go; toes pointed foreward. - Relax arms, and bend them at the elbows. Place them slightly below shoulders so they dont block your vision. - Keep your body up, and alert! Dont lean over. - Make sure the ball is between you and the net at all times - Make sure your balanced before you make contact with the ball. - Decide whether youre going to jump off your preferable foot, or use both feet when making contact. - For one foot: take two short quick steps and jump off your foot thats opposite the arm you served from. - For two feet: Take three steps with the last two steps short and quick. - Keep all parts of your body facing the same direction (feet, hips, shoulders) - Go to the ball in a straight line,

of your arm between your wrists and elbows. - Direct your whole body in the direction of wherever youre passing to. - Make sure hands are directly in front of your body with your arms locked (for a steady platform). - Wrists and thumbs should be parallel to the floor.

strong yet comfortable. - After you make contact with the ball; immediately recover and carry on with the game. - Keep hands interlocked with your thumbs pressed together, when making contact with the ball. - ^^ Dont cross thumbs! Just keep them pressed together.

- Make the toss using both hands in front of you, but only one hand making contact. Use preferable hand. - Dont make the toss too high; do it quickly. - Make sure the toss is made at the same point you jump off of the floor.

- make sure your serving hand (preferable) gets up quickly enough so you can make a successful contact with the ball. - dont straighten arm completely out in front of you; when you make contact place arm above head but bent at the elbow. Hand should be above head. - lock your wrist and keep the hand you serve with flat. - hit the ball hard and strong; only way it wil be successful. Use the heel of your hand and it directly on the middle of the ball. - dont follow through with your arm, like you will naturally do with your leg. - remember to have foreard momentum and go 14

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dont zig zag.

into the ball. - after contact, move back into your defensive position quickly.

Task 3 Compare with Model performer / video analysis

SKILL Preparation (body position, arm action, leg action) Strengths - Right/Left foot is a little bit foreward, in a comfortable position. Your body weight should be balanced. - Thumbs are facing towards eyes. Weakness: Feet, hips, and shoulders face the players on the other side of the net. - Knees are bent and back is straight; head is leaning forward; alert. - Keep hands above your head, in a Performance Analysis In Volleyball Contact with ball (position of arm, body and legs) Strengths - When you hit the ball, make sure its above you head. - Make sure your hands are in a ready position, but dont clench them so much that its uncomfortable - when setting the ball, make sure all your energy goes into the set itself. Weakness: touch the ball with your fingertips, never your hands! Keeping the ball light on the tips of your fingers. Year 10 Criterion A 15 Follow Through/Recovery (arm action, body position, leg action) Strengths - Keep your arms out wide in front of you, as well as your whole body itself. Weakness: - whatever foot your not leaning on during the set, should naturally follow through, and foreward after your done.

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ready position. -Fingers are open and hands are in a claw-like position, like the shape of the ball.

-Make sure your arms are bent. - Keep body up, but remember to bend your knees.

Underarm Pass

Strengths -Make sure youre comfortable. - Keep your body up, and alert! Dont lean over. - Make sure the ball is between you and the net at all times - Make sure your balanced before you make contact with the ball.

Strengths -Ball should hit you on the area of your arm between your wrists and elbows. - Wrists and thumbs should be parallel to the floor.

Strengths -Make sure arms are strong yet comfortable. - Keep hands interlocked with your thumbs pressed together, when making contact with the ball. - ^^ Dont cross thumbs! Just keep them pressed together. Weakness: - As the ball comes towards you, meet it half way before you make contact. Go into the ball. - After you make contact with the ball; immediately recover and carry on with the game.

Weakness: - Body should be strong, but Weakness: comfortable when - Keep your feet you make contact. slightly apart, with This should make your right/left foot the pass foreward successful. (preferable) Direct your whole - Keep your head body in the foreward direction of Make your body wherever youre face whichever way passing to. you want the ball to - Make sure hands go; toes pointed are directly in foreward. front of your body - Relax arms, and with your arms bend them at the locked (for a elbows. Place them steady platform). slightly below shoulders so they Performance Analysis In Volleyball

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dont block your vision.

Overarm Serve

Strengths: - Keep all parts of your body facing the same direction (feet, hips, shoulders) - Go to the ball in a straight line, dont zig zag. Weakness: Decide whether youre going to jump off your preferable foot, or use both feet when making contact. - For one foot: take two short quick steps and jump off your foot thats opposite the arm you served from.

Strengths: - Make the toss using both hands in front of you, but only one hand making contact. Use preferable hand. - Dont make the toss too high; do it quickly. Weakness: - Make sure the toss is made at the same point you jump off of the floor.

Strengths: - make sure your serving hand (preferable) gets up quickly enough so you can make a successful contact with the ball. - lock your wrist and keep the hand you serve with flat. - hit the ball hard and strong; only way it wil be successful. Use the heel of your hand and it directly on the middle of the ball. Weakness: - dont straighten arm completely out in front of you; when you make contact place arm above head but bent at the elbow. Hand should be above head. - remember to have foreard momentum and go into the ball. - after contact, move back into your defensive position quickly.

Task 4 Prepare a Plan of Action

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Task 5 Re-Evaluate Performance

Describe your performance of during the game. Refer specifically to the skill you selected to improve. Consider your accuracy, control and consistency of each of the three main skills. I feel as though in the game I played to the best of my ability. The skill I had chosen to improve on was overhead serveand I was proud of myself, because I had improved greatly on this skill, in terms of how well I was able to do it at the beginning of the unit. Obviously, Im still not a pro player and have a lot to learn, but during the game I was confident that I was putting in 100% effort which was what I wanted to do all along. Did you perform team plays with your team members? How?/Why not? Comment on your accuracy and your intentions if applicable. Performance Analysis In Volleyball Year 10 Criterion A 18

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I did perform a few team plays. I did it once with Prabneet; she was on the back of the court, and I could tell she wasnt going to be able to get it over the net from her position so I went back and bumped it over my head backwards, sending it over onto the other side of the net. I think it was accurate enough, because we got a point. I also thought it was good that she knew that she could rely on (me) her teammates to back her up when she wasnt able to perform something on her own. What areas did you feel you improved on? How did you know that you improved these areas of the skills? How effective was your skill practice / training? I think I improved greatly on the skill area that I had chosen to improve on in the beginning of the unit,which was the overhead serve. I wasnt even able to hit the ball once it was up in the air at the beginning, which is much different than my situation now. Now Im able to send the ball successfully over the net from the green line, using the overhead serve. Part of it was about strength, and the other part was about knowing how high to throw the ball and when to hit it (timing). What do you still need to develop in terms of your passing/ serving and game play for year 11 PE? I think I need to improve on helping out on the court. During the game, I noticed that I was staying very reserved to my square of the court. If the ball came directly towards me I would do my best to hit it over, but if my teammate on the side say needed my help, I usually wouldnt react quickly enough to go in for the ball. Not to say I never helped out my teammates (check question 2) but I usually just stood there, assuming they had everything under control; I think I realized that I was doing this when one of my teammates did the same thing to me; I was wondering why they hadnt helped me and I began thinking that I was being quite hypocritical!

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Word list for Volleyball unit Year 10 0910 Subjective analysis Where your personal feeling influences what you

believe is happening. Example:I think I am good at serving because. Or, I feel that I am weak at setting because Where factual data such as evidence on film, is used to find out what is actually happening. Example: I am inconsistent in serving the volleyball as I hit it into the net 2 out of 3 times. Objective analysis can also help to discover WHY mistakes are being made. Instead of steadily improving your skills remain at the same level despite practicing. Ability to change direction quickly on the court The required movements of the body getting ready to perform a skill. Example: the same set up of body position, arm actions and leg movements, will increase likelihood of skill being consistent each time it is attempted. At the point when the ball strikes the body, either with fingers in a Set or arms in a Dig/Bump/underarm Pass The action of the arms & legs immediately after the ball has been hit. A good follow through increases likelihood of player being balanced & ready to play the ball effectively, again when required.

Objective analysis

Plateau of skills Agility Preparation phase

Contact with Ball

Follow Through

Volleyball Steps to Success Bonny Kenny + Condy Gregory Human Kinetics 2006
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