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Seven thousand five hundred kids all bounced Basketballs at the same time for five minutes.

The world record was shattered at Gaza’s old international airport, which has been bombed several times by Israeli forces since 2001.

The event, organised by the UN and recent Palestinian college graduates, was designed to bring hope and fun to children in the besieged coastal enclave.

Nicole Johnston has the story.

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Bio: Keith Sewell has played competitive volleyball for over 12 years, four of those years (1999-2003) were spent on the Texas A&M Men’s Volleyball team.
Filmmaker: Keith Sewell

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2. It’s also best to play on a winning team. College coaches want players that are winners. If your team wins all the time, a college coach is more likely to be interested in you.

3. Visit colleges. By your sophomore and junior year in high school, you need to be visiting colleges. Many college coaches have their teams set by your junior year, so don’t wait too late.

4. Make good grades. If your grades are really good, you can get an academic scholarship to most NAIA schools. NAIA schools will definitely be more interested in you if your grades are real good. Most NAIA schools have many scholarships, (some teams have 2 JVs), so if your grades are good, you have a good shot of at least playing NAIA if you’re not that great a player.

3. Increase your vertical. College coaches will be very interested to know how high you can touch. For example, a high level college coach won’t even consider a player that can’t touch at least 9 feet 4 inches. For Division I volleyball, college coaches want players that can touch at least 9 feet 10 inches. For NAIA, you probably need to touch at least 9 feet 6 inches. This is just for front row players. If you’re a libero or DS they won’t care how high you touch. If you are a setter, it could be important if the setter plays on the front row.

4. Be tall. If you’re taller than most, you’ll get noticed. If you’re 5 feet 10 inches or taller, you’ll have a good shot at playing in college as an outside, right side, or middle hitter. If you’re 5 feet 6 to 5 feet 9 inches, you could be an outside if you jump real well and have good technique for spiking. For NAIA or junior college, height of setters doesn’t matter so much. Most NAIA volleyball teams run a 6-2 offense because of unlimited subs. Division I coaches likely want a taller setter, especially if they run a 5-1.

5. Train for strength and explosive power, not aerobic endurance. Most kids and inexperienced club coaches make the mistake of training for endurance and not explosive power. For example, running long distances for conditioning is a waste of time. For volleyball, you want to be quick and explosive. Training should involve going hard for short periods of time with rest in between the hard efforts. For example, sprint for 30 seconds then rest for a minute. Then sprint again for 30 seconds and rest for a minute. Keep doing this for 15 or 20 minutes. This is the way you want to condition. Also, you don’t want to just do sprints. You need to have agility and quick change of direction movements in your training. Volleyball just like most sports involves moving quickly, then changing directions quickly. For example, you need to move quickly to get in position to pass. Of if you’re a setter, you need to move quickly to where the ball is passed and get in position to set. Or if you’re blocking, you need to change directions quickly to move laterally along the net to get in position to block. Being good at volleyball is all about having the ability to quickly get in position to make the play. Training to improve your ability to quickly change directions, stop and be ready to make the play is very important.

6. Strength training. You want to strength train using heavier loads and fewer repetitions. For example, if you were to lift lighter with less rest between sets, you would be training more for muscular endurance and less for strength and power. You want to focus more on strength and power and less on muscular endurance because you want to be able to move quickly and powerfully to pass, make defensive plays, jump to block, explode quickly when approaching to hit, spiking hard with a lot of power, etc.

7. Always warm up by doing dynamic movements, not static stretching. When you warm up, you want to wake up your nervous system by doing dynamic movements such as skips, hops, lunges, high knees, high heels, etc. These types of movements wake up your muscles. You don’t want to do static stretches because holding a stretch relaxes your muscles, basically puts them to sleep and puts you at risk for injury. You want to be explosive when you play volleyball, so it’s important to warm up properly, preparing your body to move.