Expert

“It’s the quest for perfection that makes athletes great,” the American volleyball superstar and coach Karch Kiraly once said. Volleyball Development Camps’ top level of training isn’t going to make an athlete perfect, but it can be a significant contributor to an athlete’s quest to be great.

In our ski slope analogy, VbDC expert camps put the steepest slopes and the biggest moguls in front of the athlete, and not all of them are skill and ability related. The majority of the training is mental, learning to tune in to the pace, the tactics, the tempo and the circumstances of a game – and learning to take control of them from the opposition and use it to your own team’s advantage.

There’s a lot of hard, physical work at this level of training to be sure. But as much of it is inside your brain as it is in your bones and muscles.