What Coach Lea looks for

The checklist she runs on every passing clip

A real email from Coach Lea: the one thing to fix, how to fix it, and a drill to start on.

Coach Lea watches every rep herself and decides what matters, in what order, and what to change first. Working on the whole position? See Libero training.

She checks

Ready position: weight forward, arms apart, eyes on the server
Movement to the ball: feet first, platform built late
Platform: flat, locked, angled to target, built before contact
Contact: between the knees and waist, in front of the body
Finish: shoulders to target, minimal arm swing
Passing angle: how the platform redirects a ball from each zone

Common errors

What usually shows up on passing film

From Coach Lea's checklist, in plain words. Your athlete probably has one or two of these, not all six.

Swinging the arms

The platform moves up through the ball instead of holding. Passes fly high or long and lose control.

Fix: freeze the platform at contact; let the legs and the angle do the work.

Overpassing

Platform is too flat or the pass is taken too high, sending the ball over the net to the other side.

Fix: take the ball lower, drop the shoulders, and angle the platform more toward the floor on hard serves.

Passes spraying left and right

The platform is built late and lands crooked, or the passer reaches instead of moving the feet.

Fix: move early, square the hips, and set the platform before the ball arrives.

Building the platform too early

Arms are joined while the passer is still running, which stops the feet from getting there.

Fix: run with the arms apart; join them in the last step.

Contact on the hands or wrists

Ball is taken too close to the body, so it hits the thumbs or wrists instead of the forearms.

Fix: pass the ball out in front, between the knees, with the thumbs pointed down.

Standing up through contact

The passer rises as the ball arrives, lifting the pass and pulling it off target.

Fix: stay low through contact and finish with the knees still bent.

Coaching references:

How to film passing

The angle that lets us see it

Front-side angle, from the net looking back at the passer, slightly off to one side
Whole body and the passing platform in frame
5–10 serve receptions of real serves (a tosser is fine for beginners)
Side view is a useful second angle for contact height

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