 just make sure this is right hey you guys what's up how are you i wish there was some music in here hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi mordecai sub hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi hi i'm doing good i have some really cool info if you guys want to hear it i'm pretty excited about it so if you want to hear it give me a thumbs up give me a thumbs up if you want to hear my cool my cool news because it was it was great i have a story to tell you guys i got a story to tell you hit me with a thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up thumbs up i have a cool story it actually is pretty fun i'm pretty excited about it and it happened yesterday so it was pretty awesome okay here's my story so there's this thing um called a blind draw and a blind draw is in the recreational volleyball world it is when you can go you go and play for a volleyball league right so you go play for a volleyball league and when you go and put your name on a note card and they pick your number they pick your name and then whoever they pick you with is on your team that night okay like so you don't know who you're playing with before the tournament and it's like completely random right so this could be like oh okay it's random but at the same time you're like you could have really good people in your team but because it's random it's random so yesterday i went to go play one and i didn't know who was going to be on my team and i was like and i was like let me just let me just hope for the best let me hope for the best so i got really great people on my team and we won last night you guys so we ended up playing reverse co-ed and reverse co-ed is when it's on a women's net because if you guys didn't know most of the times when you see me play in a live stream i'm playing on a men's net which is really high but we played on a women's net right and on the women's net the guys can only hit from the 10 foot line and that means that the girls can hit from like regularly i got so emotional because it was i haven't been able to hit on a women's net in so long and it was like this feeling that i couldn't even like explain to you guys it was it was y'all so yeah today i just i just want to share that good news because koko wants some money so also i wanted to have this volleyball chat with you guys so we can talk about some things i'm here at the court right now doing some stuff so let's get these questions rolling hey she's from brazil i want to go there at all as a women's net believe them is at seven eight am i going to sports connection thanks guys hey i'm trying to practice some overhand serves do you know anything that can help me straighten my arms i do how long have you been learning your overhand serves can only show people billibearos no no hey albania all cool how to become a better player my best advice is to become a well rounded player so that becomes solid in all of the skills um a lot of the times when we specialize in skills people will neglect other skills for example middles will sometimes neglect learning how to pass and liberos will neglect learning how to hit i think everybody should learn how to do everything solidly to make you a very well rounded player that way if you want to change positions later on you can do so because you're solid how do you get better at receiving the ball so you're trying to learn how to kind of like serve a seat okay how to roll there a pancake i can show you guys a sprawl do you guys want to see a sprawl because i did one yesterday do you want to see one i can show you one right now because we're inside so well maybe want to start volleyball i wanted to get involved with this board but volleyball actually i didn't pick it it was really my mother's choice is it normal to prefer back setting hey everybody has their own thing my favorite position is outside hater y'all want to see my sprawl oh okay hold on all right okay okay hold on so you make sure when you come out for a sprawl a lot of times i'll see people bang their elbow a lot of times i'll see people come out here and get floor burn you want to come flat out pancakeing is hard pancakeing is hard you want to come flat out extend your arm out bring that knee over and get up i have floor burn really bad hold on guys i'm working on my overhand serve sometimes it makes it over and it depends on my strength how consistent is it i have really bad floor burn on my knees any tips on returning rotation okay lily let me tell you girl so rotation personally for me was the hardest thing to learn and i'm going to tell you why rotation was the hardest thing for for me not for you for me the hardest thing to learn because being conscious of so many other people at the same time in a fast-paced game was was hard to be able to regulate what really helped me with rotation was when my coach had all of us on the court and we kept rotating and rotating over and over again that that hands-on experience is what really really helped with that but when i'm hearing somebody explaining it to me it was harder to understand i really want to be a setter but my coach puts me at right side right so i can be the backup setter have you been working in your sense where i always was i always good at volleyball no girl angeline and no no girl no i had to i had to really work hard to learn try out some three days do it tips on making your middle school team go in there with confidence go in there with confidence get more power on your overhand serves how are you serving it look at the angle of your hand and how you're actually serving it i made the tips any teams to get on the starting roster i would talk to your coach no lily i actually didn't play college hey from scott hey i would talk to your coach and say coach and show them the best way to become a starter is to show them show them why you deserve to be a starter show them why you need to be on the court show them what you got top spin jumps are oh isabella trying to get it in i want to do volleyball okay so more chi this is what you can do try different types of shorts that you think may be comfortable find the best ones for you is the key so not every one of them for example i don't like mizu okay for example i have some shorts they write up they write up i don't like them because they write up you know i'm talking about those really really really low cut shorts they write up on me and i'm kind of like so i like to get about the five inch the five inch shorts because they don't write up as much it really is trial and error you have to see what works best with your body let's see what is my biggest tips for volleyball try out hmm communicate don't go in there quiet don't go in there like hi i've never played before my name is coco hi communicate communicate how do you stop the shorts from writing up give me a thumbs up if shorts writing up is a big issue for you i want to see something when do you start your volleyball season typically the volleyball season in the united states is played around august to early november late october for me i play all year round y'all tips for an outside hitter get aggressive at the net how to block what position do you play exercise that help with leg strength do you do light weightlifting it all depends on how old you are for me i weight lift like i hit the gym hard you guys but somebody who's between the ages of 12 and 15 i would start working with resistance bands what's an easier way to remember rotations an easier way to remember rotations you got to do it over and over and over again for me i'm a visual learner so that means that i have to be in it and see it and do it and then i'll understand or if you can have your coach better explain because rotations can be done differently at each club for example the way that i might set my lineup in rotations may be different than your coach may be different than their coach may be different than their coach how do you gain strength to hit oh you was a manager how do you gain strength to hit so i've seen i think a lot of people think that people who are dead ringers for the ball or hit really really well with the ball have to be really tall have to be like super champs but that's not really true it all depends upon the footwork your arm swing and getting your body into it i'm trying up a volleyball eighth grade that's okay it's okay brianna it's gonna be okay hey rainbow little jedi you have a shoulder injury what's going on with it my serve is really powerful but i can't manage to control the direction okay so the direction is really controlled by your arm even though yeah so the direction is really controlled by your arm so even if you're swinging in the middle of your palm and your arm is coming across your body that could cause the ball to come across your body tip so i'm being a setter and a right side being a setter you have to be quick get your agility you have to make sure you're there to the ball make sure you're quick on the ball make sure that you are under the ball and make sure you communicate with your team so they know where you're setting how to make your vertical higher so jump training is something that is really really really something that you guys ask about a lot is how do i jump higher so one of the things that you can do is strengthen your quads and strengthen your legs and working on leg workouts in general so some of the things that a lot of volleyball training programs do is they use resistance bands they jump on the boxes and stuff like that they do stairs to really strengthen your legs every time i hit i feel soreness in my shoulder have you been playing a lot like is it a is it a strong pain because sometimes sometimes when i'm not a doctor sometimes when you have soreness in your shoulder it could be overextension or hyperextension when i try to overhand serve doesn't go over the net no matter how hard i try how to make it go further shoot me an email adi adi what are some workouts you can do to build strength for volleyball i have a video coming on that you guys thank you martin luther king hi hi girl versus food i like that name any tips for playing volleyball i'm trying out for my high school team one of the things that i think that is so important and one of the things i wanted to talk to you guys about today was being confident in yourself it goes so far it really goes so far hey art in passion diy how do you work with cramps sometimes when you're playing in a volleyball game and you have cramps it will happen sometimes mother nature comes at the most unfortunate of times it happens one of the things to do is to make sure to take the necessary precautions with cramps so that could be the hot water bottle you know drinking a lot of water saying hydrate it stuff like that you got your jump serve hey jordan got their jump serve any tips for the left handed hitter the best position for a lefty optimally is the opposite however i've seen some lefties be dead ringers on the outside so even if the coach is like you're a lefty i'm gonna make you an opposite choose which one you want to do and which one you have a better swing on but the opposite because you're a lefty you have a way better angle of the court i want to be a larabero or ds my coach has me as a middle any tips oh so you want to step to the back row i would show them in practice your passing percentage so i would show them in practice that the amount of passes that you're getting to the target how often you're gonna get to the target and when they see that they're gonna go wow lily can pass any tips are bonding with your team team bonding is important you guys it's one of my favorite things to do i think it's so important to have a good relationship with your teammates and not even only have a relationship you have a friendship you know feel like you're part of a unit you only have like one other boy on the team tips for short volleyball players so jackie what position do you want to play oh thanks it's my shirt i want to get my hoodie too because it's starting to get cold out here you guys let me cook a molly shirt how do you read a hitter okay so if you're passing back row and you're trying to read a hitter let's use the opposite for an example no let's use outside let's say the outside hitter is going to hit right and then you have your your right side is about is blocking that hit and then you're the libero what you want to do is it depends on palm the hitter how they tend to hit often so if the hitter likes to hit line you would guard the line if the hitter likes to hit angle you guys would guard the angle but most of the time you really need to look at their shoulder the way their body's positioned and the set that will determine exactly where the balls kind of kind of go it really is a chance of probability and trying to understand the hit once you see somebody swing a couple of times you'll be able to tell because a lot of people are very consistent when you get to those higher levels you have people who are very smart thinkers who can place the ball anywhere but at a level like high school and middle school you're going to be able to kind of read people more more setting tips hey kb google play where are you at how do you pancake correctly with an engineer yourself i have had a couple of successful pancakes in my life and i'm excited about them but i'm going to make a new updated video about pancaking the hardest position that's a matter of perception girl versus food that really depends on what you consider hard i can tell you the hardest position for me if you guys want to know that the hardest position for coco i can tell you that unknown sister it might be because that's part of your uniform yeah you guys can always personally email me that's coco volley contact at gmail.com how do you feel like what kind of criticism do you need like how do you know if you just want to be talked to or you want to be loud what do i really have send me an email if you have a personal question like you really want some help send me an email okay the hardest position for personally me not everybody just me it's probably the libero i'll tell you why because i was trained as a middle blocker which means that i am always at the net i've always been at the net i love being at the net i'm aggressive at the net everything that i know is about at the net so when it came to playing at the level i play now and stepping to the back row it was a huge shock for me i was like wow you guys have a lot to do back here because the team is not divided but it is really front row back row front row back row the back row communicates with each other differently than the front row will communicate with each other if that makes sense tips for receiving harder overhand serves those are similar to down balls so if you're getting down balls in practice make it a relational thing where it's like this is just a down ball i can do this i can hey ryan bang okay i'm gonna say this right ryan bangalondo bangalondo did i say that right how far would you be to travel clinic or anything you live in minnesota lily if you got people together a group of people together i'd come and see you hey k hey linda what's the easiest position in volleyball or is there anyone that is a matter of perception it depends on what you like to do personally hi sophia angel i didn't play club claire berry i didn't new york city oh that sounds fun my mother's school team has not won games that's okay unknown sister where are you at everyone in my team oh they won't judge you ava they won't judge you what do you think is the most important oh and chan i think every single position has things about them that are each optimally important and i think that there are certain positions that direct the game a little bit more the setter directs the game a lot the libero is very crucial and essential the outside hitter is essential but i think all players really really matter i'm gonna go back a little bit chicago thanks ryan hey i have a video coming on that jennadine i do have some tips on that kate okay so jack this is one of the telltale ways telltale ways that you can tell somebody's going to tip the ball instead of uh gonna hit it right they come up and if they're leading with their hand look at the hand because a lot of the times people are not slick enough to come up and fake it really well they you can tell they're running up like this look at the hand or if they're really tight to the net if somebody is really really tight to the net and the set is tight to the net and that looks like the only option you have to really think about so game volleyball is really a game of strategy you have to really think about what somebody is going to do before they do it okay so when i'm playing in a game and i see that their setter set them really tight to the net i know they only have a limited amount of options so i'm going to play to those options that i assume they're going to be able to do it sounds crazy right but that's that's that's the way it goes i can teach you how to kirsten i can definitely help you on the footwork for spiking it is my specialty my favorite position to play the most is outside hitter what type of serve is easiest once you get your standing topspin serve and you transcend to your jump float you may think that the jump float is easier i've heard that the libero is the best passer on the team they work really well in serve receive they kind of get those hard spikes they get everything oh i'm no instead of that's not good my favorite snack to eat before practice i get a banana because you know bananas have potassium and that keeps cramps away like cramps on your side i'm going you guys i'm going other than volleyball what sports you'll enjoy i'm trying to get into tennis you guys what do you think if i was a tennis player cocoa tennis your coach may help direct who's the libero based on upon the skills that people have hi cocoa wants to know what motivates you and tired you tend to take a break you guys i get tired a lot and i think about it when i want to take a break i take several deep breaths and but then i have to remember why i do what i do and why i love why i love the game so much and i remember why i started yeah i can do more setting videos what are things that i can do to become a better outside hitter get aggressive at the net get aggressive at the net i'm trying to read to you guys hey congrats on the first tournament okay i've caught up a little bit my travel league just started okay i want to try setting but we have two great setters and as a current here i'm overwhelmed okay so a lot of that you guys talk about confidence about being confident and i hope that you like that content that i give you about confidence um because i think that at you guys's age it's really important to stay confident and i know that's something that's it's easier said than done but when you're trying to do a new position and there's somebody already in that position there is room for everyone there is room for everyone believe me when i first started playing volleyball i walked into a court of girls who had been playing since third grade i was freaking out i was freaking out yesterday actually yesterday i was extremely nervous i'll tell me give me thumbs up and i'll tell you why yeah yeah shrine get out there and do your best one of the best hitters that i know is a guy and he's five seven hi william thanks william thanks sun and moon sisters hey so yesterday i was extremely nervous because i actually signed it for an open level league and open level is about pro it's about pro level and i was like oh my i was i was literally sitting there like oh my gosh why did i sign up for an open level like a a level like league like coco you're not ready you know you haven't played this level like ever why would you do this and that was my yeah and i was just sitting there like i was freaking myself out i was freaking myself out i was like this is not gonna end well i'm gonna get i'm gonna be chopped liver they're gonna eat me alive out there you know so it was like i felt crazy i was like oh my gosh i'm not gonna be able to do it and then i got out there and i started seeing the people and i was just like this is gonna be crazy but then i went out there right hands were shaking and i was just like i went out there and we won we won and you know what a lot of the things we worry about in life never come true a lot of the fears that we have never come true and i went out there and i was the hardest swinging girl out there and i just had to be confident in myself and remember what i can do and not be intimidated by other people that i didn't even know it's coco volley contact at gmail.com lulu they might see something in you they might see something in you sometimes if you have sometimes if you have shorts riding up instead of getting the three inch shorts which are the shorter shorts get the five inch shorts those did a little bit longer how can you toughen your hips and ran okay wait with your serve so you mean you want to strengthen your hand what's the difference in an outside volleyball and it's the material that it's made of the outside volleyball has a little bit of a harder material and the inside volleyball most of the time they leather bound i'm a libera on a national team but everyone is all over me okay girl that's okay and i don't think i'm good enough and the coach always puts me on the bench okay so when you're in practice you got to dominate you got to go out there and be assertive you have to go out there and say mine this i got it and show them that you deserve to be a part of the team i know in that situation it really stinks to feel like you're being isolated i have been iced out before when you feel like you're being isolated but you got to you know what your skill will take you far i can't get the ball down when i'm hitting do you snap your wrist right brin do you stop your wrist or do you come out you just go weird uh you like the anime mordecai what time is it it was almost time for dan dan y'all i would love to do a video on rotations jasmine but the only thing about that is is i think it will further complicate things because a lot of teams do rotations differently that makes sense i was 15 years old i was in 10th grade when i started playing 10th grade or ninth grade 10th grade any tips if the coach yells at you is it constructive yelling or is it like this is crazy yelling how does your arm look are you coming here you're going like this because it really depends on your arm how do i get to jump high the five three middle blocker strengthen your legs okay coco i don't know how to communicate and get along with my team okay what are some tips to communicate find a common ground with the new team what i would really do is i will talk to the coach because the coach is the coach's job to really really navigate those communication issues with the team because they're supposed to also help you become a cohesive unit so if you guys are having some issues talking to each other really involve your coach saying hey coach we're having some issues talking to each other i really want us to you know have more team bonding have a common ground find that common ground and that way the coach can start doing bonding activities that's why in a lot of practices or my practices specifically we play games we have well we have a lot of fun we play practice games and stuff like that so that way they can let's see i'm going to type it up here so you guys can see yep can i type messages i can't all right it is k o k o v o l l e y c o n t a c t at gmail.com koko bolly contact at gmail.com how do you receive the ball properly have you learned how to pass yet did that work priona my favorite position if not you can go to my website and there's a search bar in there too that way i can get it any tips on reading the ball how do i not get afraid of the ball because no one blocks a spike oh the thing comes back it comes fast yeah nobody's blocking the spike when you learn so i will work in practice on receiving a very i will work in practice on receiving a very hard ball because it really is something that once you start doing it it'll come it'll come more easy when you continue to do it i have some workouts i'm going to start doing some more workouts for you guys i just started playing at my school doesn't have a team but they have inner murals and everyone show them you know what you're doing you know what you're doing lana so shrine this is what you do you have to oh that's okay so shrine you have to continue to grow and continue to grow means taking those harder hits any tips on ball control serving wise because i have always wanted to be one of those servers who can just like put it anywhere have you started learning how to practice how to dive keiji hey ryan any tips on jump serving how you started to learn how to jump serve because after we do the jump float then we project we progress at the jump serve but before you get your jump serve you really should learn how to spike or do a back row attack because i would say that the jump serve is similar to the back row attack i'm in middle school how close to the net do i set the ball it really depends on the person hitting for me i like a quick tie in low set somebody else might like a high end you know rainbow set when you go to attack is it better to have an approach or to swing and jump a an approach 100 approach the ball any tips on back setting have you started to practice on back setting because it's really a perception i will learn how to dolphin dive but i don't know dolphin dive i've never heard of that how do you be more confident when diving start diving on mats first don't start diving on this hard behind floor start diving on the mat first how do i become less nervous at my club practice because i just started playing everyone's been playing forever that's a common theme i get a lot is when we kind of go into a space that we're nervous because we haven't played there before i feel that feeling yesterday i feel that feeling sometimes one of the things that you need to do and well that will maybe probably help you is to remember who you are and what you know how to do forget about everybody else there just think about volleyball how do i spike the ball if the net is too high there's other options there's the roll shot there's the push over there's the dink there's the tip if it's too tight to the net don't go for it don't spike it if you have a swing on it swing on it ava coco you are the one who is sure me it's okay i didn't make school volleyball but i make club how long did it take me to get my serve so for when i first learned started learning how to serve i would serve it straight out like it would go so hard because i was so strong it would go straight out my coach had to say okay dial it back like 75 after dialing it back 75 percent then i started to get my serve how do you find your position try out the different skills that every position does to see which one you like the most don't get sad lana yes alina really go out there and show them what you got i have no idea what position should be on my team i think i should be front middle because i can't serve for my life that's okay you can learn how to serve you can still learn how to serve i have something coming on that allegra so i was wondering if it's safe to wear glasses yes yes it is but they have the one with the little strap on the back because i don't want you to break your glasses honestly i don't want you to break your glasses i started volleyball was 15 i can't get my hand close to the ball do you wait are we talking about jump serving yeah i can't kirsten i have a volleyball tournament tomorrow tell me what you got drawing with ava i can see how i can help you because your tournament is tomorrow so you need help now diving okay that means you're probably diving too early if you're not if your hand is not getting close enough to the ball you're probably diving too early because you're trying to pancake it right there's a lot of you guys in here what should i drink for trials other than water i would do a gatorade gatorade will replenish your electrolytes how do you become a libero you have to become a really great passer so i would really start working on your agility start working on passing more consistent and making sure to get it to the target boys is becoming um boys is becoming more popular in the us it hasn't been as popular in the us because you know there were a lot of other sports but it's becoming more popular i've seen a lot of more boys teams forming lately and that's so great what area are you in you're welcome lulu i it depends on the club gabriel does volleyball come easily to me at this point where i am now yes did it become easy no before no let's say one hand for one hand for pancanking brand hi karan how does volleyball impact in my life how that's a great question i don't think i've had that before wow thanks t-rex i like t-rex isabella i'm going to answer krinn's question so krinn volleyball for me has given me so many things it has given me the opportunity to learn how to work in a team the opportunity to learn how to be healthy physically when i was at a young age it taught me how to develop skill how to train my body but it taught me more than that it taught me how to be a good student and it also taught me how to be a great person and it gave me the opportunity to do this for you guys i would not be doing this for you guys if i didn't love volleyball as much as i do and love you guys as much as i do because i didn't have the opportunity to have you know like a whole coaching staff focused on just me and even though i'm not a whole coaching staff i want to give you everything and everything that i have for volleyball so that way you can be the greatest player in the world and you can go out there and play usa or you can go out there and play internationally you can do anything you want to i read a great quote yesterday that said interested people will make people who are interested in things will make excuses and stories people who are dedicated will find a way how can we get better in the off season if i can't afford to join a club team that happens and that happened to me one of the things to do is to practice to go play in a recreational team get your hands on the ball as much as possible i'm about to go to surgery okay g good luck good luck eat lots of ice cream let's see i have some amazing dives and saves but i always hurt my knees oh do you wear any pads have you learned the proper ways to block your face yet mordecai i do have some sienna bye kg hi it's me again and i just would choose did you watch my cheers video i have to go shortly you guys but i just want to say thanks for you guys coming to this live this live stream i appreciate every single one of you guys really i do and i'm coaching again well that's why i'm here so before we go tell me where you are right now in the world tell me where you are in the world right now i just want to know i just want to know where you guys are in the world i'm always interested so that way one day if i go off to travel the world with coca-cola i know where to go we got georgia boston tex idaho new york city new york city california kansas we got penn california you got another california we got the philippines boston tennessee minnesota albania arizona nevada california uk whoop whoop maryland wisconsin oh you guys are everywhere cool beans tennessee canada i posted the um karen i posted that in the community tab i'm in north carolina jasmine new Hampshire well i have some cool news if you guys are on a volleyball team or if you're in a volleyball club what you can do is give your coach my email and if your coach and give your coach my email and have them shoot me an email like hey we'd like to have a clinic with coca-cola and i may be able to come and see you how awesome would that be that'd be awesome right if i came into the clinic for y'all it'd be fun it would be so fun it would be so fun of missouri what uh gabriel have more like live streams like this do you guys like when i do live streams like this i can yeah hey can you guys like when i kind of like talk to you guys like one on one because it's like more personal and stuff like that yeah okay i'm gonna tell you guys a secret are you ready for a secret i am thinking about going to let me see what time it is i have something for me to go i'm thinking about going to big south this year big south just to watch i just want to i just want to you know i just want to i just want to watch if anybody's gonna be there i might be there might be there i just want to watch minnesota nor oh what is that also if you guys take pictures on instagram if you don't follow me instagram and you take pictures on instagram tag me so i can i can look at them because i want to or tag me in your team photos because i want to look at them because sometimes late at night we all do it we all do it later night we're on instagram like this and i like looking at you guys's photos it makes me so happy it makes me feel so happy my favorite volleyball team i have a couple maybe i should make a video about it my snapchat is cocoa puffs tin cocoa puffs tin so yeah if you ever have um if you ever have i do have merch did you guys know i have merch did we know that thumbs up if you knew that because this is my shirt hold on i'm scoot back a little bit i even have it not in pink for the guys because i know they're like well it's in pink but you know what i do yeah yeah yeah oh and it ships to canada it is in my bio it's in my bio see i always wear my shirt it's the logo you guys also whoo before i go good thing i remembered that before i go also on my website www.cocovolley.com i'm also blogging okay so when i don't post on youtube i write articles about volleyball so that way you can read some of the articles i've written i've already had some articles written so you're going to go to the www.cocovolley.com and you're going to click the blog section and then you have articles from me i do have an instagram it's cocoa dot volley i do have a hoodie a leg i'm about to give my hoodie because it's going to be warm i do let me know if you guys buy the merch so i can take a picture thanks abby's music oh it's almost time for me to go all right you guys so i have to go ryan is a secret i do have a snapchat it's cocoa puffs 10 so i have to go you guys cocoa puffs 10 it's my snapchat i have to go i will see you guys a later i'm thinking about starting up like a saturday livestream every saturday if that's something you like which i'll see you again next saturday and bye it's dinner time bye guys bye bye have a good night you guys have a great weekend you guys do something fun watch a good movie spend time with your friends spend time with people you love okay tell somebody you love them today okay bye you guys