Women's Volleyball Training

I remember a Bud Greenspan film chronicling the 1964 Tokyo games focusing on the Japanese Womens Volleyball team which won its first ever gold medal. The training regimen that the coach used was like something that would have made their samurai ancestors proud. For instance, he would have the girls dive on the hardwood court for balls without knee or elbow pads. He basically decided that practice would be harder than anything they would face in a game. It apparently worked.

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