Copy a volleyball practice plan from an earlier session or team

Copying a volleyball practice plan is faster than starting over every week. Last week's structure worked, or the coach of another team built a strong serving evening. Instead of retyping everything, you pull the plan into your own practice with one tap and only adjust what needs to be different.

When do you copy a plan, and when do you start over?

Copying a plan pays off when the structure is right and only the details differ: the same warm-up, the same theme a week later, or a strong evening from a colleague that you want to run with your own group. Start over if the theme is different or your group is clearly at a different point. After copying, always check three things: the number of players you have that evening, the level of your group and the space in the gym. How to build a practice in blocks is in building your practice in blocks.

How to copy a practice plan in Koach

1. Open the practice. Go to Training > Sessions and tap the practice you want to fill. The plan is below attendance and effort, with the total minutes in the heading, for example Plan · 45 min.
2. Tap Copy plan. That link is to the right of the heading. A sheet opens with two lists. The templates are at the top. If your team belongs to a club, that list is called Club templates and holds your own templates together with those of other teams, each with the team name; otherwise it is called Templates. Below are your team's Earlier trainings with a plan, newest first. Each row shows the number of sections and the minutes.
3. Choose what you want to take over. One tap copies the whole plan. The sections are added after what is already in your plan, so nothing is lost. If your practice had no title yet, the title comes along. The message names the number, for example 5 sections copied, with Undo to remove exactly those sections again.

Earlier trainings shows at most 20 practices from before the date of the practice you have open. If you have used the same plan more than once, it appears only once.

Club templates: plans from other teams in your club

Koach has no central drill or club library. What it does have: Club templates. Those are the templates that coaches in the same club have saved, from your own team and from other teams. You see them in the Copy plan sheet with the team's name, and you copy them as easily as your own plans. You cannot edit or remove other teams' templates; each team does that itself. You delete your own templates in the same sheet with the trash can, with Undo if you make a mistake.

Sharing a plan yourself works like this:

1. Open a practice with a plan and tap More at the top right.
2. Choose Save as template. That option only appears if the plan has sections.
3. The name is already filled in with the title of the practice. Below it you read who sees the template: Visible to all club trainers, or Visible to the trainers of this team if your team does not belong to a club. Tap Save template.

Templates are working material for coaches: players and parents do not see them. More about working with fixed setups is in reusing your practice plan with templates.

Adjusting the copied plan

A copied plan is a starting point, not an end point. Anything you change afterwards only applies to this practice.

• Time per section. Tap a section. Under Duration you set the time lower or higher with minus and plus, in steps of five minutes. The heading of the plan adds up the total.
• Order. Drag a section by the handle on the left to another spot.
• More drills. Add drill opens the drills. You pick several at once with the round plus and add them in one go with, for example, Add 3 drills. They go to the end, still without a duration: they get the No time badge until you give them minutes.
• Your own section. Add section creates a block without a fixed drill, such as a warm-up or a game, with a name, a duration and an optional description.
• Removing. In a section's sheet you find Delete section. With Undo it goes back to the same spot.

One plan for a whole series of practices

If you want every Tuesday of the season to start with the same plan, choose a Template when you schedule a series. Every new practice then gets that plan right away. There you choose from your own team's templates. If you want to use another team's club template for your series, first copy it into one practice and save it there as your own template. How to set up such a series is in scheduling recurring practices. Looking for a plan to start with? Have a look at the free practice plans of 8 to 28 weeks. And more about the whole evening, from preparation to evaluation, is in running a volleyball practice. What Koach costs after the 14 free days is on the pricing page.

Frequently asked questions

Further reading

Reusing your practice plan with templates: never start over Practice blocks: building your session like a programme Schedule recurring practices: a whole season in one go

Browse 200 volleyball drills with animations Download a complete practice plan of 8 to 28 weeks