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Setting in volleyball: from technique to reading the game
Learn to connect stance, movement and overhead contact with setting decisions, with examples from Ricardinho on passes, hitters and reading the block.
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Technique / R17 Guide
SETTING
IN VOLLEYBALL.
From technique to reading the game. Stance, movement and decisions, with examples from Ricardinho.
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