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I began my training block today. Week 1 of 12 to try and improve my volleyball spiking. It was good today but a bit embarrassing. Good because we got to play a game and completed a match analysis sheet. So the game was fun.

But also not so good as it was a bit embarrassing in the game because I hit all of my spikes into the net or just missed the ball completely. But I am looking forward to making my spike better.

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I was really looking forward to my session today. I took the first 10 minutes to practice a warm up with my partner. I worked with Holly and we did a pepper practice. But Holly is really good at spiking so she found it easy. Every time I had a spike I couldnt hit it to her arms and the ball would hit the floor. I didn't feel very warm after the warm up because of this.

The rest of the session was good. The shadow practice was boring but I actually think it helped me improve my footwork a lot. It meant I could think about the rhythm I took my three steps in when preparing to hit the ball.

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For my warm up today I decided to change to working with Eilidh for the pepper. This worked much better. It was a lot slower than working with Holly so I managed to keep the pepper going for longer.

I repeated the shadow practice which was good. But it got boring after 3 minutes so I didnt do it for the full 5. I also cut it short because I did the same shadow practice yesterday I could easily do it today.

The repetition practice was my favourite. It was fun as I got to hit some of the balls in the spike. My partner stood on a bench and I practiced my footwork approaching the bench to hit the ball. My footwork was good but I didn't always strike the ball well.

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This session was good, however, the repetition practice got too easy and boring really quickly. I decided to make it a bit harder by giving myself a target to hit 4 out of 10 spikes over the net. I managed to get 5 over the net so I felt good that I reached my target! Next time I think I will aim for 6.

The conditioned game was fun. I like ending the sessions on these as I am very competitive. We played the game spikeball where you earn points by spiking the ball against the other team. I managed to earn half of the points for my team so I think my speak is getting better. I can connect with the ball better now.

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I decided to retest myself in training today. I recompleted my match analysis sheet and recorded the scores beside the original ones.

In my retest I got 60% successful spikes whereas I had 0% successful in my initial test.