 Hey what's up you guys long time no see my name is Coach Coco and I love volleyball so today I have a volleyball vlog for you that I did back in June of a pretty intense game. This is probably the most intense game that I've posted on my channel thus far but nowhere near the most intense game I've played in my life. But I really wanted you guys to see what volleyball looks like with rotation with higher level players with a high intense game all of that so that's what we're going to be watching today but long time no see. So I thought to myself most of my volleyball vlogs I narrate with text what if I narrate this with me how fun is that? So as we watch this volleyball game I will give you comments tips and tricks on things that are happening so that way we can better understand the choices that were made and possibly a better choice. So in this video you should be watching things that you particularly want to work on so if you want to work on learning how to hit better or hit harder take the notice of the players that are hitting and swinging like nobody's business. If you want to learn how to receive the ball well take notice of players who are receiving the ball well. It's always important to look at game footage because game footage can give you insight into things of a possible scenario. When I was learning how to play volleyball I watched game footage and this is before volleyball YouTube started to get together so I was watching like college games and high school games but I was really looking at the technique that I should be emulating so that way I can learn to play better and that's another reason why I make this content for y'all because I want you guys to be so good. I want you to be so good. So this game took place with a couple of my friends and I decided to go to Chapel Hill and like what the heck let's go play at Chapel Hill. It's a little bit higher of intensive play than where we're from so I was like okay let's do it. So this is the team where we're on and we played all night but I thought this game was too lit so I was like let me go ahead and record this because this is about to be it. So I'm an outside hitter. I played middle and high school for quite some time. I was actually trained as a middle but was middle my favorite thing not at all y'all not at all. I like playing outside because I like to hit a lot and middle doesn't hit as much they really block more more so block so when I got to college I was like look look look I need to change my career. I'm going to outside. I retired from middle okay I'm too old now. No I'm not I'm really not y'all I'm 24 but I like the outside so so so so so so much. So here I'm playing outside but we are running a 5-1 which means there is one setter and five hitters circulating around that setter and the setter he is in the cargo shorts with the gray top but right now well hope I get it okay so right now we're really trying to work on our defense because I believe our point score was down and we're in a very odd rotation right now so most people are in their natural spot but this one I think this was a point where we had a we were down a serve for quite some time you see we dive another round we were down to serve for quite some time and we were trying to figure out how to rotate I get a lot of questions from a lot of you guys asking how do you know what position to play what is the best position for me and for me I can only speak on my personal experience and when I first started playing volleyball I knew I was going to be a hitter I have a ton of upper body strength I was like arm wrestling champ in middle school bro so I knew that that's something that I wanted to do but my coach gave me the opportunity to try different positions first so I tried my hand at setting wasn't trying my hand and passing then I went to hit and I was like this this is it this is it for me so for me hitting came natural setting I had to learn over time passing I had to learn over time but I did have a natural inclination for hitting so when I play front row I am much much much more comfortable with the game I know I feel liberated almost because I know exactly how to control the ball front row is my thing y'all I am beast at the net I remember my first experience with volleyball was when I went to a Campbell University camp when I was uh what was I in 10th grade I was in 10th grade and I had never played volleyball before I had never hit I never rotated and I was so confused I was so confused but they took the time to really tell me hey you know it's okay we're gonna show you calm down we're gonna show you and I was like okay okay so I got onto the standing box and I sat there and I hit a couple balls I hit a couple balls hit a couple balls and I really felt it I really really felt it and it really connected with me and I think that's the first moment where I really connected with volleyball and thought to myself this could be something that I could do for a long time and it's something that I still do now I I love playing volleyball multiple times a week I feel like if I don't I get a little cranky so even though even now even now in adulthood I love playing volleyball so when you guys some of you guys email me and you um DM me like if I don't make my team will I be able to play yes yes you will I have plenty of people that I know in real life plenty of people that are you are watching in this vlog right now have never played high school have never played middle school played because they love it learned in adulthood learned now some of them I'm showing now so they love volleyball and volleyball is for everyone I don't want you to be discouraged because of middle school or high school or you had a coach that you felt like snuffed you or you had teammates that you felt like snuffed you or you started too late or you want to try now girl boy you can do anything you put your mind to so you want to go out there and you want to play volleyball you want to go and you want to make your team you want to become a great player do it do it because you can do it you really can let's say you're a middle schooler and you want to go and play volleyball but you've never had experience first go look for some local leagues in your area there's recreational leagues for youth see if there's a local coach around see if your parents know anybody who's played volleyball to get some coaching go out there and get it wake up every day and go out there and get it you want to become a really great player when I was learning how to play volleyball I went to every summer workout there was no matter how early it was every summer weight lifting every summer workout I was there tears not any blood but tears I was there I was there because I wanted it and I really really wanted it I'm not going to lie to you to say there was sometimes that I thought I am not going to be able to do this I am going to quit I can't do this this is ridiculous there are times that I thought that really there are times that I thought that but I pushed through and I and I persevered and I feel so grateful for what I did then because it has made me a phenomenal player now and I've learned so much in volleyball from my interest motivation which means that I motivated myself to get something that I wanted and I want to teach you guys how to learn how to find that motivation within yourself to get what you want whether that's volleyball whether that's good grades to go to a good school to become an artist to become an engineer that's what I want to do I want to be able to inspire you to inspire yourself I am a firm believer that everyone needs somebody in their life to push them somebody in their life you say hey it's going to be okay but go out there and get it and if that has to be me hey yo I will do that for you I want to inspire you to be the best volleyball player that you can be to be the best student that you can be to be the best person that you can be so that's what I try to do did I intend for this volley chat to become somewhat emotional no of course not but I really want you guys to believe in yourself I really want you to believe in yourself and I want you to go out there and believe in yourself so even when we're having a hard day in volleyball because I've had a ton of hard days in volleyball a ton I want you to remember what you started it for so what I want you to do is I want you to write down one reason in the comment section of why you started volleyball one reason so when it gets hard you come back and look at it and you see it and you remember what you did it for I'll be checking them thank you for watching this volley chat if you liked it give it a thumbs up and I'll see you guys next time