JVA September 30 · Club leadership

One practice plan.
Every coach ready.

Dennis Yu, Cam Hazzard, and Dylan Haugen on the JVA Align ’26 stage. — From our earlier work with JVA: Dennis Yu, Cam Hazzard, and Dylan Haugen at Align ’26. Photo from JVA’s session video.

Your club already has the coaching knowledge. Use AI to turn selected drill links and clear notes into one practice plan your coaches can review and use together.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026
2:00–2:45 PM Eastern Noon Mountain · 11 AM Pacific

With Dennis Yu · 45-minute JVA workshop

Open your workshop kit Copy the main exercise

Follow along in your current AI tool, or watch and practice later. All source notes needed for the exercise are included.

The repeatable club workflow

From useful sources to a shared plan.

01
Links + notes
Know what the AI can actually read.
02
Practice plan
One clock, two courts, clear roles.
03
Coach review
Check the drills and athlete fit.
04
Coach message
Draft a clear handoff for approval.
05
Save + reuse
Keep a dated version and improve it.

AI organizes the material. The head coach approves the athletic decisions and a person sends the message.

Start here · September 29 edition R3

Your workshop kit.

Keep the slides open during the session. Use the workbook and complete input files to repeat both exercises afterward.

PDF · Workshop slides · R3

Follow the lesson

Visual walkthroughs of the shared practice plan, coach handoff and court-schedule check.

Download slides PDF · Participant workbook · R3

Work through it

Prompts, review questions and a practical next step for your own club workflow.

Download workbook TXT · Complete inputs · R3

Copy, run, check

All nine input files in one plain-text download. Separate coach and court exercise downloads remain below.

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01 / Main exercise

Two teams. One shared clock.

For our fictional Harbor Juniors case, 13 Blue and 13 White each have 12 players and their own court. Both follow a 90-minute plan; coaches adapt the difficulty for their athletes.

Illustrative workshop case · draft for review

Thursday, October 1 · 6:00–7:30 PM Eastern

90minutes total

COURT 1

13 Blue

12 players · Lead + assistant coach

Same timeline
and vocabulary

COURT 2

13 White

12 players · Lead + assistant coach

10 minWarm-up
+ shared goal

15 minCalls +
first contact

15 minServe/pass
groups

5 minWater
+ reset

15 minPass to
attack

20 minSix-a-side
application

5 minCoach-led
closing

5 minReflect
+ return kit

Check the whole plan: water, transitions and reflection fit inside the 90 minutes. Each team stays on its assigned court. The head coach checks flow, spacing, workload and athlete suitability.

This sample was created for the workshop from fictional supplied notes. It is not an official JVA training program or a coach-approved plan, and it was not extracted from the source videos.

Choose useful source material

Start with the club’s drill library.

These JVA video descriptions make them useful references for the exercise. Open a source, review it yourself, and supply the drill notes your coaches can stand behind.

V1 Junior Volleyball Association

Pass to Attack:
Master Training

Passing-to-attack ideas for multiple teams training together.

Description checked · coach notes requiredOpen JVA video on YouTube V2 Junior Volleyball Association

Seam
Communication

A serve-receive reference about communication between passers.

Description checked · coach notes requiredOpen JVA video on YouTube V3 Optional extension · JVA

Train Proper
Attacking Habits

A source-selection discussion about attacking movement and timing.

Description checked · optional coach reviewOpen JVA video on YouTube

Try it during the session

Give the AI the whole coaching brief.

Open a new chat in ChatGPT, Claude or your current assistant. Copy the complete exercise below. It includes the fictional club constraints, supplied notes and source-access limits.

JVA R3 | FICTIONAL COACH COMMUNICATION EXERCISE | 29 SEPTEMBER 2026

You are helping a club director prepare a coach packet. Use only the supplied fictional case facts, coaching notes and source cards. Begin by stating exactly which sources you can access: video transcript, publisher description, supplied notes, or none. Never claim to watch a video if you cannot inspect it. Do not invent timestamps, drill mechanics, recipients, links or approvals.

Create:
1. One 90-minute plan for two teams on two courts, with time, duration, task, responsible coach role, common cue and adaptation field. Include water/transitions and prove the total is 90 minutes.
2. A concise draft message for coaches with the practice date/time, review deadline, links, questions and next step.
3. A 'head coach must check' box listing unresolved drill/athlete decisions.
4. A reusable filename and version line. State draft/not sent.

Use the supplied notes for the worked plan. The YouTube descriptions establish relevance only. If a source is inaccessible, say so and continue from supplied notes. Do not send, upload, publish, schedule or change anything.

CASE FACTS
- Fictional club: Harbor Juniors; teams 13 Blue and 13 White, 12 players each.
- Practice: Thursday October 1, 2026, 6:00–7:30 p.m. Eastern. Two adjacent indoor courts; one lead coach and one assistant on each court.
- Shared objective: clearer calls on serve receive and a controlled first contact that leads to an attack.
- Each team stays on its assigned court. Both follow one timeline and the same coaching vocabulary. Lead coaches may adjust difficulty while keeping the shared purpose.
- Coach handoff deadline: Wednesday September 30, 6:00 p.m. Eastern. Ask coaches to flag questions before Thursday's 5:45 p.m. staff huddle. These dates are fictional case data, not a new JVA promise.
- Equipment: 12 balls per court, cones and a visible timer. The head coach checks spacing and suitability.
- Source links: V1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QNp-TbRrdI and V2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heX-9jV5ZzQ.
- Access evidence: video descriptions only; no transcript. Do not claim the video was watched or invent its exact drills/cues.

SUPPLIED FICTIONAL COACHING NOTES
These notes were authored for the workshop, not extracted from those videos and not reviewed by an actual coach.

1. Use 'mine', 'short' and 'deep' as the fictional club's shared calls. JVA's public 13U curriculum discusses those calls, but this is not a claim that they are the three cues in V2.
2. Coach-led warm-up and movement preparation: use the club's normal routine; do not generate medical, rehabilitation or conditioning instructions.
3. Serve/pass block: coach sets safe zones and a target. Players work in groups of three as server, passer and target. Rotate roles after five playable feeds. Begin with an appropriate controlled feed; lead coach decides when serving is suitable. Observe the call and the pass, not merely whether the ball stayed up.
4. Pass-to-attack block: lead coach demonstrates a familiar club sequence using passer, setter and attacker. Start with controlled feeds; rotate roles on the coach's signal. Exact attack tempo and intensity are coach decisions, not an AI invention from V1.
5. Team play: split each court's 12 players into two groups of six. Use the club's normal rules. Assistant tallies whether the first-contact call was audible and records one useful observation. Do not invent a target pass grade or guaranteed improvement.
6. Water/reset and end-of-session reflection are included in the clock, not added beyond 90 minutes.
7. No player names, health information, contacts, payment details, actual schedules or real minors' data belong in the AI prompt.

SOURCE CARDS
V1 Pass to Attack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QNp-TbRrdI
V2 Seam Communication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heX-9jV5ZzQ
Publisher: Junior Volleyball Association. Indexed publisher descriptions establish relevance only. No video transcript, exact timestamps or drill mechanics have been inspected. The supplied fictional coaching notes supply the actual exercise instructions. Never claim these notes came from those videos.
Written context: https://jvavolleyball.org/jva-training-curriculum-13u/
Shared coach resources: https://jvavolleyball.org/from-the-jva-office-foster-an-environment-for-continued-learning/

Check the clock

Add every block, including water and transitions.

Check the source

Separate supplied notes from material actually accessed.

✓

Check the handoff

Keep approval questions outside the draft coach message.

02 / Second demonstration

A court closes.
What actually changes?

Use the separate five-team example to check whether a proposed schedule respects courts, coaches, team conflicts and locked sessions. Then draft notices for the affected teams.

Download the court exercise

Four checks before a change

Every required session is present.
Courts and coaches are available.
Locked sessions stay locked.
Affected teams receive the correct draft notice.

A plausible-looking timetable still needs checking.

Our 45 minutes together

Build it.
Check it.
Use it again.

The 90-minute practice is our example output. This workshop lasts 45 minutes.

5 min
Choose the club workflow
Define the result: one usable plan and a clear coach handoff.
10 min
Gather the sources and constraints
Review selected links, supplied notes, teams, time and roles.
15 min
Draft, check and improve the plan
Check 90 minutes, coach decisions, source claims and the draft message.
10 min
Check the court-schedule example
Spot conflicts and review the affected-team notices.
5 min
Save your work and choose the next use
Keep a dated version, reopen it and name who reviews the real version.

After the workshop

Make the next practice easier to prepare.

Keep one source pack

Save the selected links, approved coaching notes and club constraints in a document your team controls.

Review before sharing

The head coach approves the plan. A person checks the recipient list and sends the final coach message.

Bring back one improvement

Record one cue to keep and one change after practice. Use those observations to improve the next version.

Further learning

Build on JVA’s own coaching resources.

Use the public written resources for context and review each drill with your coaches before applying it.

JVA · Share the knowledgeDrill libraries and continued coach learning JVA · Written coaching reference13U training curriculum JVA · Shared club approachA club training model for the first six weeks Shared workshop resourceThe AI implementation workbook

One practice plan.Every coach ready.

From useful sources to a shared plan.

Links + notes

Practice plan

Coach review

Coach message

Save + reuse