Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: SportVideos.com
• DVD Release Date: January 1, 2006
• Run Time: 34 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000DZJNRS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #177,547 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

The Play Better Volleyball Volume 1: Setting DVD from Sport Videos features Coach Santiago Restrepo and the University of Oklahoma volleyball team. Coach Restrepo clearly details the 5 essential keys to becoming a good setter. He also shares a variety of drills to train hand placement, footwork patterns along the net and off the net, jump setting, back setting, one-hand setting, and much more.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent setting instructional video., June 30, 2007

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P. Wung "Engineering is my vocation, volleyba... (Tipp City, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Play Better Volleyball: Setting (DVD)

Santiago Restrepo is one of the best trainers I have ever met. He brings to his teaching a fervent passion that is partly from his latin roots and partly from his love of volleyball.

I have been privileged to have attend many of his training session on setting and he strives to teach the fundamentals of setting the correct way with out getting the student bogged down in analysis. The setting drills in this DVD are simple but the key lies in his instruction and his emphasis on getting the right reps and doing things correctly. The players who demo in the DVD are stellar performers from the University of Oklahoma's burgeoning volleyball program. The instructions are concise, to the point, goes to the point and extremely effective without being overly pedagogical.

I recommend the DVD highly.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Ok.. so English is not his strongest skill, October 9, 2007

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Self Helper "Self-helper" (Fort Lauderdale) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Play Better Volleyball: Setting (DVD)

In my opinion this DVD is not meant for a newbie. It's more suited to fine-tune your setting skills if you are already at least an intermediate setter (although, a persistent beginner might find it useful). All 34 minutes are a laundry list of many possible setting drills with about 2-minute demonstration per each: setting with one hand (who knew!), back-setting, left/right setting and so on.

The drills seem logical and useful. The problem for me, is that the coach is not really giving any pointers. 15 girls demonstrate obediently and unemotionally. Not a sound of excitement, not a smile..it's all quiet in the gym.

I know this video is very useful, but as hard as I tried, I just could not get beyond its poor quality. Let's start with the coach himself..His vocabulary consists of 15 words on a good day! Add to this fact only one face expression and a sense that he just had a heavy meal-you get a video with some potential but falls short. The most-used (or abused) word is "okay". "Okay this/Okay that"! I had hard times understanding him.

Secondly, I found myself wanting a few close-up shots. The coach can really give some pointers/corrections to focus on, rather than just list the drills.

Yes, I know, he has a good reputation as a coach, but what he is teaching here is not rocket science! To me a good coach must be a good communicator above anything else.

Finally, the price: $30 for only 34 minutes is a bit steep.

To sum this up: Even though the drills are excellent and will effectively do the job of improving your sets, this video lacks good instuction/pointers from the coach, is poorly made, and too expensive for what it offers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent training DVD!, September 22, 2008

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J. Pasturel "queen of online" (Oregon) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Play Better Volleyball: Setting (DVD)

Excellent DVD for techniques, covering several drills. The only flaw I found was that the there are not slow-motion, real close ups of the sets and hand position to see *Exactly* where and how the hand contacts the ball, how much the fingers should bend, etc.