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Natalia Málaga is a former volleyball player and current coach of the Peruvian Youth Volleyball squad (19s), which will compete in the 2011 World Championships at Lima. She wants to make Peru one of the most successful and respected national sides in the Western Hemisphere.

Twenty years ago, in October 1982, Miss Málaga became one of the youngest medalists in the FIVB World Cup history after winning the silver medal in her homeland. Previously, by 1981, she was member of a side of young up-and-coming athletes who came close to winning the Under-19 World Championship. She was four-time of the Peruvian Olympic Volleyball Team (Moscow ’80, Los Angeles ’84, Seoul ’88, Sydney ’2000). Because of her achievement and personality, she is a role model for many Peruvian and Latino athletes.

A good coach knows that in all likelihood, every player on his team is going to have to have the ability to set the ball. Running good volleyball drills for setting will benefit the entire team, not just the normal setters. Because setting the ball is often the best way to recover a broken play, it is important to have the entire team work on their setting skills. These are some volleyball drills that will help everyone hone their skills to be beneficial to the entire team.

Volleyball coaches often face certain hurdles that are common to all coaches. How do you take a bunch of players who have never played before and teach them the skills necessary to become an effective force? How do you create volleyball drills to erase the bad habits learned from elsewhere and have your players perform the way you expect them to?

The good news is that both of these questions can be answered in the same way. You create good beginner volleyball drills. This is not to imply that you have only beginning players on the team, this is more in the realm of the beginning technical drills in the new season. Using these drills will correct bad habits or teach new players just the same.

When you first learn to serve the first thing you will want to focus on is creating a routine that you do each time you serve the exact same way. When you change the way you serve during a match it becomes more difficult to create control and harder to maintain consistency.

Spending time creating a serving routine that is comfortable to you will make it easier for your body to create muscle memory; this will allow you to serve the same way each time without even thinking about it. Try to implement different techniques you learn that work best for you and stick to those same techniques until you master your serve.

The FIVB is an international federation founded in Switzerland in 1947, and represents all major volleyball rules and tournament play in the world. Standing for the Federation International de volleyball it governs five continental confederations.

The FIVB governs all international volleyball events through an elected congress, which meets every two years to elect a new board of directors, and to make official statements over new rules.

The FIVB is somewhat of a daunting authority in the volleyball world, and can be compared to the UN Security Council of international rules. They have been known to lobby other tournaments and even have been known to stop other tournaments from being able to practice and work.