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80. Practice videos: Nicola Negro - Minas (Part 2)

What is happening in the training gyms around the world? Today we have Nicola Negro reviewing 2 of his team practice sessions.

80. Practice videos: Nicola Negro - Minas (Part 2)

🔍 Intro

We've already featured 16 practice video articles with pro and college coaches, and today it's time for our 17th Practice session article here on volleybrains.com.

At VolleyBrains, we bring you inside practice gyms worldwide to see how top coaches develop their teams.

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Navigate to our practice videos page for an overview of the featured practice videos. Be sure to leverage this unique resource.

👊 The coach who's guiding us today

In this practice video session we feature Nicola Negro, the head coach of Minas. Minas is South America's strongest club team and the home of many world class players.

Under Nicola's guidance Minas won 3 Brazilian Superliga's, 3 South American Club Championships and many more titles and cups.

Nicola started his journey in professional volleyball nearly 20 years ago and coached in Italy, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Slovenia, Poland, Romania and for the last 5 years in Brazil at Minas.

For more on Nicola and his coaching journey, check out the Masterclass interview we had the pleasure to do with him.

⚡ What's inside the practice video clips?

In this article we'll feature the concepts and exercises of 2 afternoon team sessions.

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Part 1 of Minas' practice video sessions, with 2 morning and 1 more afternoon team session is over here.

In the full video coach Negro will go into detail on:

  • Also on this level block technique needs attention
  • Where the OH's need to impact the ball in an in-system situation
  • The setter - libero dynamics needed to play an uptempo transition game
  • His standard (Minas standard) scoring system for 6 on 6 exercises
  • The attention they put on serve efficiency and serve trajectory
  • One of his favorite 6 on 6 exercises - "Double Way Out"
  • and so much more...

Enjoy!

Practice clips preview

  1. Practice preview clip 1: Setting Standard + Position OH In Transition
  1. Practice preview clip 2: Transition play: Setter - lib connection
  1. Practice preview clip 3: Net reference points

VolleyBrain Members only sessions

  • 22 minutes of narrated practice video with Nicola Negro
  • An extra 15 minutes of 6 on 6 'rolling tape' of Minas' Double Way Out exercise
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Quick tip: The video is timestamped. Use the chapters to quickly navigate through the video for later reference

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