 Okay, I'm back. I don't know what was going on. I don't I have no idea what was going on But I'm back so we can continue our Q&A about volleyball tryouts So if you have any questions regarding volleyball tryouts how to serve things like that skills that you're learning If you want to give an update on your volleyball life, what's going on? I would love to hear it Hey, Yasmin so As I was saying before don't let other people get you down Don't let anybody Crush your spirits. You can do anything. You really can do anything you put your mind to you are positive You are radiant really you really really are and I want you to believe that Even if you have to wake up in the morning and say that to yourself in the mirror. I want you to believe that Is there a difference between lightball? Yes A lightball is usually for people who are just starting not just starting high school I mean like children like fourth and fifth grade. How can I prove my aim? So that's called spot-placing and spot-placing is something that you have to learn how to practice Any tips on spike tips or control tips? So control so the first thing you have to crawl before you walk, right? So crawling first is learning how to spike. Okay walking is learning how to spike with better control Running is when you can spike in a specific area. So you have to learn part one then part two then part three You guys are in May congratulations. Kelly. I know you're excited. I love volleyball, too Oh, I do. I love volleyball, too. I Started on my school team in grade six. My coach really liked me, but in grade seven. He benched you for the whole year That's right. That's right. Mama Steve. You show him you got it. My club teaches start. Oh, you broke your thumb last week I'm sorry to hear that, but you can still cheer on the team. I Asked me years ago in October I'm gonna turn old this year My trials are in two days. How do your position position your hands? Yes, there's a difference between a light and a soft series. Yes. So how old are you first? Yes, my birthday Yasmin Are you sending me a letter? I would love to have a letter guys How can I power serve like they do in pros? Well first they're pros So it takes time they took years and years and years of specialized training to become professional So in order for you to become professional, you have to take years and years of specialized training to become pro I would love to be pro. Do I consider myself a pro? No There's plenty and plenty and plenty of greater volleyball players out there than me There's better coaches and all that but all I can say is I'm doing my best for where I'm at and I'm trying to help you Get way better than me. This is way better. What do you pack for a tournament? Watch my video on how to pack for tournaments because I have all the data Oh, you're from Brazil. Thanks. Arthur. How you doing? I do watch stranger things. It was awesome. It was awesome Oh, watch them now. It was awesome Yes, somebody yes peanut dancer What should I pack for tryouts? So I would look at my what's in my volleyball bag video for that not necessarily the tryout video bag, but The what's in my volleyball bag because you need to bring a lot of water I also bring some Gatorade because Gatorade replenishes your electrolytes, which is what you're gonna need All of that. I did a three-day volleyball March break. Okay, and I was returning. Oh, you were turning their jump serve Awesome. Thanks, Alana. Go for it. Go for it. Go for it Thank you. I like these glasses too. They you protect your eyes from the UV rays What are some drills that I can do? What are you trying to do when I serve? I had a lot of troubles swing my hand straight when I hit the ball. What do you mean? Do you hear this? We're gonna like this just like Just like that Do I have a posting schedule? So I've been thinking about my posting schedule lately. Anyway, so usually I was uploading on Wednesdays I was uploading on Wednesdays now I know that because tryouts are coming up and We have a lot of more videos that you guys want to see and I have a list of requests that I want to get To you guys all your request so I'm thinking about starting to post twice a week Don't quote me on that yet. I do have a full-time job. So Coco works full-time. So I'm still thinking about my posting schedule, but when I do post on the posting schedule, I will update on Coco Volly blog So you go to www.cocovolly.com Then you go click on blog and I do post on the blog So even if I don't upload on YouTube, I do write articles on the vlog Vlog on the blog that you might want to read. I didn't make tryouts this year But I want to try again and my neighbor's really good at volleyball, but she's pretty popular. I don't talk to her Okay, so what you can do is I will just kind of bring up the bring up the conversation with her like hey Hey, Sarah, you know, I see that you're really great at volleyball. I would love if you can show me a couple things. I Don't know that Anna Are you an Albanian? Oh, hey Gabby. How you doing? How you guys doing today? Hey, I'm glad you're back, you know Because I didn't make it this year and I've gotten a lot of better, but I've no one to practice with I feel like I'm not practicing The right skills by myself. Okay, so look at the fundamental skills, you know bomb set spike serve Pass all of that those are the fundamental skills I would start working on those even if you can't practice when I was learning how to play volleyball My parents invested in me and that's it in a little net. It wasn't like a great net it wasn't like a Really spectacular volleyball net, but I would just hit over it and I would just hit over it And I would just hit over it even if you don't have a net just try to hit up in the air So it's up and high There are ways you can practice by yourself Is there any tips for when people call volleyball a girl sport volleyball is a popular male sport as well My if they feel like they call volleyball as a girl sport go on YouTube type in men's volleyball and show them that My team isn't the best and I feel like they don't put much effort as me and few others. What do I do to motivate? Okay, so to be the motivator of the team cheer when other people so you have to cheer the little things And you cheer the big things so if somebody passes the ball you can say hey I see you good job If you feel like people aren't aren't feeling enough You might have to talk to the coach about you feel like it's not motivated or they're not hungry enough for it Because it's no fun when you feel like you're pumped up and you're like, yeah, and everybody else is like well Nobody wants to feel like that so talk to the coach so you can get everybody like yeah Short for my age. Absolutely. Absolutely. I've met college liberos who are five two five three. So yes How do you break the habit of throwing the ball up before you underhands it? Okay, breaking a habit is you're gonna have to change the habit So every time you're gonna have to do it the right way You're gonna have to do it the right way and keep doing it and keep doing it That's the only way you can break that habit. How can my service not hit the okay How can my service not hit my coach and she gets mad you can apologize to her and say hey I'm not intentionally trying to hit you. I might be serves a little uncontrolled right now But I'm working on it. How can I hit higher harder and higher on my overhand? Well higher all you have to do is aim higher hitting harder step into it Put the force of your body into it Should I do club volleyball? I highly recommend doing club volleyball because it gives you the other experience you need if you want to go and play collegiate She's a best player in her volleyball classroom. Congrats guys. Let me ask you this Do you guys like when I kind of blog style my volleyball? My volleyball adventures journeys stuff like that my toss for overhand spins and goes behind my head What can I do? So are you going like this and it just goes behind your head? You need to put one hand behind your back and work on your toss work on your toss Hey, good guy. Thanks Anna. I'm glad. I want a great great strength in my arm Okay, how old are you first because you might so gaining strength in your arm or require you to build strength building strength means Building resistance building resistance means lifting Okay, so try to toss it with here and Toss and toss so instead of just serving break it down to a couple points Remember in the overhand serving video. I said first working your toss toss toss Toss once you get that down, then you get your bow and arrow bow and arrow then you put it all together toss and Hit so start breaking it down take it back a little bit this week. I was sick and next week I have five training. I do not know if I should We have a match, but I was quite sick. It's okay. Even if you're feeling sick go and cheer them on show support She's from Peru What is the best way to control your hits? Okay? I said earlier Controlling your hits is something that is a little bit more of an advanced skill First you need to learn how to hit consistently well After you learn how to hit consistently well, then you need to learn how to hit consistently Well a little bit harder then you start to aim your hit That's when we have hits like angle. We have him. It hits like cross line We have hits like center court That's when people start aiming things because they've gotten to a skill where they can What can a drill team you do for your aim? Are you talking about for server hitting? But I couldn't get in when you it's interesting lightball Yes, so the lightball and soft series ball are for beginners now I don't mean beginners like high school beginners. I mean beginners like fourth fifth grade Because the ball is hurts too much a regular size ball hurts too much when they try to pass and we don't want to bruise children's arms Actually practice when you were teaching in your blog for the overhead serving. Ah, thanks How do you deal with falling a volleyball? You're gonna have to fall college coaches make you sprawl for everything Every single thing you need to sprawl for they're on the ground for everything But you have to learn to fall the right way Thank you. Yasmin. How do you find a good partner to practice? I would look better in your community somebody you're comfortable with somebody you know somebody that's A little bit better than you are that way you can grow into a great player How can you prove your back set? Okay, so when did you start losing the learning your back set? I haven't made a video on back setting yet, but I do want to this happened to me almost two years ago But I wasn't very good at it It was part of the growth better than me and we pepper a lot and I didn't make the team I've made the team and she did and I feel kind of bad It's okay to feel kind of bad about something like that you can tell her you can motivate her by saying Hey, I know I made the team and you did it and I'm really sorry that that happened But let's keep practicing together because I don't want you guys to get discouraged. You know how I always say That volleyball is for everyone Thumbs up if you've heard me say that before because I say that all the time volleyball is for everyone Riley, that's the most common way to serve Um bow and arrow is the most strategic way to serve Bye. Bye. It's the most strategic way to serve when you jump serve. It's the same philosophy when you are Standing serving. It's the same philosophy when you float serve. It's the same philosophy When you underhand it's kind of it's different, but bow and arrow is There is no other way. I've seen some people do some other ways But I'm not going to mention them because I don't want you to do them. I don't want you to hurt yourself I feel like my parents aren't that excited about me playing volleyball Like they keep saying focus on other sports, but I really want to do volleyball So get the pros and cons for them. Show them why it excites you Show them why you're passionate about it Show them how it makes you feel Show them give them the facts Oh, I'm sorry official, Alyssa. Oh mommy. See if you never saw her again tips on top spin serve curb your hand flick at a wrist flick at a wrist I started playing on on a volleyball team three months ago and I suck so bad Oh, I did too. I found your videos and everybody constantly What if you don't have time me for volleyball anytime for volleyball home? You have to make time you have to put in what you want to see you got to put in what you want to see Thanks, Riley. Why is it harder for me to over and serve? It's not necessarily that it's harder for you to overhand serve overhand serving is not an easy skill It's not easy by any regard. It's something you're gonna have to practice and learn The coach didn't even pass the ball to me and it sucks Okay, so one of the things to do when you don't make the team is talk to the coach and ask for feedback on why you were cut A lot of the time they will give you the feedback and you can use that feedback to better prepare yourself for next year How do you practice during off season when it is cold and you don't have access to a gym? I have had that suggestion and i'm thinking about making that video Was a good exercise for practicing jumping for blocking or hitting so you mean jump training Okay, how can I control my power when hitting? Are you trying to control your power as in like hitting harder or hitting? softer Because you're trying to hit softer boo keep swinging keep swinging swing on it I haven't played volleyball in a couple days now, but it's better than that one time I have put in play for two months. That's better than that. Yes. You mean jump training. Okay. So I was going to make a video on how to train outdoors Because I know that a lot of us don't have access to a gym because a lot of us are young Um, we don't have time all that kind of stuff on some jump things you can do at home with no equipment So i'm still thinking about doing something like that as you can see it's getting warmer outside Which means that outdoor videos are coming back Excited about it. I am i'm excited about it. It's elementary elementary volleyball different than real volleyball What do you mean by real? I talk about pro The coach from tryouts gave me a flyer for a non-tryout team and she told me on tryouts that I was good at my overhensers I might have the money for it though. So how can I get some money? I can't tell you how to get money, but I will talk to my parents about it I went to the grade and my season just ended. It was our first year and we didn't win a game I think it's because some of the players did not like teamwork and that's okay One of the things you can talk about with them is teamwork. Can I say something in Spanish? Hola, cómo estás mi amor? I have a problem when I where I hit the ball with my wrist And thumbs instead of my forearm You mean you mean pass Okay, so it's gonna take practice It's gonna take practice. You have to make sure you get your platform, right? So just to review. I don't think we've even reviewed this Signals. Oh, you mean like shoot. Okay I'm gonna do a brief one for you mama c but then I'll make a video on it. Okay Everybody calls things differently. I'm gonna tell you what I call them. Okay piggyback piggyback tandem so it goes just like this tandem two four five three 32 32 shoot What is a good exercise improve my serve keep surfing? Whenever I try to hit the ball it hits my fingertips and my coach tells me not to jump. Oh boo, you got to jump work on your approach Hey, any tips to how to make my jv volleyball team? Is it any tougher? I don't think jv was like I said everybody's team is different every coach is different It really depends on your coach go to summer workouts and go to workouts with them to see what's going on How do you position your hands when hitting the ball do you mean passing or hitting the ball because hitting the ball It is it is an approach What do you do when you have other team members that make some other girls on the team feel bad about their skills? Immediately talk to your coach Immediately talk to your coach. No one ever should bully anybody else on their team I'm a big advocate that we are a team. We have a team effort We're confident in each other and we have friendships and we bail rebuild team power If you experience bullying on your team or you see somebody's bullying somebody else Don't be a bystander go and tell your coach to solve the problem What should I know for eighth grade volleyball? I have lots of tips in my videos Last year I tried out to get a chance to touch the ball and right up to it I found out that I've been practicing since today. Oh, thanks Like it would be great to know what they all mean. Okay Okay, so you can just say hey coach, um, I was on the team last year and there's some things that I noticed That I think that were very toxic Um, I am you can say I really wanted a very team Experience. I wanted to have a team bonding experience. I really wanted to build good relationships I wasn't able to do that because I saw bullying and um, I just wanted to bring it to your attention Oh, congrats, AJ Pandas What if there could not be Not so good people on my team. What should I do since I play volleyball since first grade? That's okay. You have to be patient. How can you get better playing back row and getting the ball to the center? You have to practice. You really really have to practice Um, you really have to practice. You're receiving the ball. You're reading the hitter. You're passing. There's so much There is so much to volleyball. We have not even talked about yet. We have we have we have scratched the surface My friends we have scratched the surface Absolutely, there is nothing more fun than playing volleyball And you know what one of the questions that we just had was how do you How do you play with people who maybe aren't in your skill level? I play with people often I play with people often that aren't necessarily around my skill level a lot of the times in videos you may see Um people who don't look like my skill level, but I'm patient and I really love helping other people Become a great volleyball player because I just love it. It bonds people. I've had a lot of friendships from volleyball all of that so Just be patient Overhand so when you get to high school official Alyssa, you can no longer underhand serve You have to overhand What should you put your volleyball back? I have a video on that. How do you pass position your hands while passing and hitting the ball? Okay so passing Okay, so everybody following along I want you to make a fist Then I want you to close over the fist And then I want you to widen it And that's your platform So I know a lot of you guys do this Or this Okay Widen it I do have some blocking drills when I serve it barely goes over the net. How can I make the bar go further? Okay, so you're gonna have to practice your serve and make sure you're stepping into it That's one of the things we always forget is stepping into it Hand and my goal is to be safe over here and serve my next year, but I don't think I'm strong enough Believe you are Allison believe you are Mental visualization really can go far My team was undefeated and then they were losing one game and they started crying and effectively they're playing Yeah, that happens a lot. Yasmin that happens a lot So you have to be the motivator kind of like I told mama steve earlier You have to be the motivator. So when you see those tears go You need to say no no come on guys. Let's keep it going. Let's keep it going. Push it push it push it I see you santa. I see that any tips on how to get stronger for overhand serve So a lot of the time people misconstrue that overhand starting you need a lot of strength Wouts that is somewhat true You can learn the basic form. So work on your form first I went to volleyball camp last week and my coaches told me to approach right left right. Is that right? It is right Are there any particular stretches I should do for my shoulders because when I serve it hurts after a while If that's happening, you might be overextending your shoulders Absolutely, I'll post it on my instagram one more time Mama steve I posted on my instagram one more time. When did I start playing volleyball gabby? I started playing when I was in 10th grade on average. How much is volleyball camp for one week? It depends on where you are. I've seen volleyball camps range range from $150 to thousands of dollars this height matter for volleyball Yes and no Yes in the pro level No for high school Sometimes for high school. Yes and no Hey, julie. What is digging digging is receiving a very very hard spike I've always loved volleyball never played competitively, but I'm hoping to make a fun team next year any tips and motivation for practicing Keep it keep working keep working and push it and and keep confident and Really know yourself and just be strong. Be strong practice your fundamental skills bumping passing setting serving Digging all of those practice all of those fundamental skills But wait, there is a cool thing. I wanted to ask you guys first But you're gonna give me a thumbs up when you're ready because this is this is pretty cool I saw it yesterday and I was just like got a little emotional because it was just It was just so beautiful. It was so beautiful Give me a thumbs up if you're ready for this because I know you've seen it I know you might have seen it. Maybe not. I saw it. So Maybe not maybe you didn't see it, but I saw it Okay Okay, okay I was watching hulu yesterday, right? And the commercial came on for the new volleyball movie. Did you guys see that? It's called the miracle season Did you guys see that volleyball movie? Did you see that? Did you see it? Oh My Did you see it? April 6th. It comes out April 6th You saw it, right? You saw it. I was trying to make sure if you guys saw it or not. Okay So what I'm gonna do is okay. So we need to go and like storm there with okay So the trailer is on youtube We need to go and like storm the trailer and just be like cocoa valley fam We're in there because we are gonna go see it guys. We are going to go see it Oh the choreography in that movie looks awesome It looks awesome Like it's gonna be legit the miracle season It looks awesome. We're totally gonna go see it. I wish I could we can just all go in the theater together and just like fangirl April 6th. I can't that's that's piracy I can't live stream it ollie but I can vlog about me going to see it But the choreography and it's gonna be awesome It's gonna be awesome Well, I'm gonna go comment on the on the video on youtube because uh, I'm excited I never have enough will We I can't play bouncing outside of my house because my house is on a hill. What do I do? Okay, so what you can do is Actually, I think I'm just gonna make a drill video It's almost time for me to go guys. Oh, yeah, it is almost time for me to go I'm in the fifth grade and I start volleyball in two days and I don't have no much about volleyball I would watch my videos The miracle season down miracle season. How can I start without hitting the ball too hard? Ooh girl Why why why stop hitting the ball hard hit the ball hard spike it I love these live streams because I get to see how many people play volleyball and how many people improve Oh, thanks. I really really try you guys know that I do all of these things for you I make these videos for you. I love volleyball so much. So why not help somebody else? I was practicing my spike in my room bro Wacky. Oh my gosh I'm about yeah, I'm about to comment on the video to cuckoo puff cuckoo. Yeah Cuckoo puff fan Do you think I need to be able to overhand serve to make the seventh grade team? I can underhand pretty well So if you feel like you can underhand pretty well once you feel like you're comfortable with the skill Move to the next skill. So start learning how you're overhand. I'm trying out for volleyball I'm a freshman trying out on the sophomore team next year tips Go watch my video on how I started playing volleyball because I was in your shoes Katie I think I have answered your question my school only lets fifth and sixth grades play on the team What can I do to not lose my skills? What gear are you in how can I work on spiking harder? Okay, josh What you can do is one of the things that I do have you seen me do the bounce on the wall Is when there's a flat wall Right And then you bounce it down and it comes back Try that I haven't my first volleyball game on Tuesday be confident. Tasha go in there strong Go in there confident go in there serious. No, no don't be too serious go in there and have fun Thanks, Leslie But can you make a video on how to how to know what position is right for you? Yeah, are you guys getting into this arm? You need to like change positions or start learning your positions Okay, so I have a new volleyball blog blog Coming out probably not tomorrow because it'll be late probably two probably on Wednesday Wednesday I mean Lily said yes, my mom's friend. Oh, yeah, that's right. Mama Steve. She's motivating Okay, guys, so I have to head out because I have to edit a video for you I play well during practice when my coach is during games. Yep. That's what happened to me You get you play really well during practice, but during the game you're like That comes with time I'm playing left side and I earn I learned how to rotate in the position. Yeah Good job. Mama Steve. That's the position. I like the best outside hitter I'm nervous for 6k try out some scared that I won't be as strong as go to the other girls Don't think about the other girls think about you You brown-eyed wonder you got to be confident in you You are the bomb.com and I want you to know that I've noticed whenever I'm setting it makes some kind of a slapping noise. That means that it's not hitting your fingertips Um practice makes perfect pickle buds Practice makes perfect, but make sure you're practicing the right way. How can I practice my serve spikes and bumping by myself? Okay, so a lot of you guys have asked questions about how to do that by yourself okay, so I'm thinking of some ways that we can do this for a solo volleyball mission Everyone in my team can hit overhand serve. I'm gonna I can't See change that statement when you said I feel like I will never get my overhand serve I want you to change that too. I'm gonna get my overhand serve I got this setter position. Ooh setter. It's fun girl. Don't be scared. It is fun It is fun Yep, it's like a light switch guys. I used to hit the ball straight on out for the serve I used to have noodle arm. I used to pass and just be like Uh I used to pass like that. I used to like duck. I used to do all that kind of stuff I did all that kind of stuff. Okay, and then one day it was just like And it just Just went on in just zoomed on in and I just I just understood And it might be the same for you. It might not it may take longer and it might not so Keep going. Don't give up. Keep going. Okay guys Thanks for staying with me during this live stream I am super super super excited for the Miracle season Okay, that's gonna be awesome movie if you're gonna see it Then comment that you're gonna see it because it's gonna be awesome I I'm so grateful that you guys are here. I'm so grateful that you guys have decided to continue your volleyball journey I am happy that you are here with me today, and I hope you have a wonderful wonderful sundae All right, you guys like comment subscribe, and I'll see you guys next time be confident. You got it