Product Description

This comprehensive DVD features Coach Santiago Restrepo and the University of Oklahoma volleyball team. Coach Restrepo clearly details the five 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. A must have resource for players and coaches at any level! 34 minutes. 2006.

About the Coach: Santiago Restrepo has achieved numerous honors as both a player and a coach. As a player, he was an NCAA Division I All-American and has played on the American Volleyball Players Pro Beach Tour. As a coach, he was an assistant at Saint Louis University, and has been the head coach at East Stroudsburg University, the University of Southern Mississippi, and the University of Oklahoma.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #107128 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-01-01
• Formats: Color, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 34 minutes

Customer Reviews

An excellent setting instructional video.
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.

Ok.. so English is not his strongest skill
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.

Excellent training 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.