Libero Academy

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Pre-Game Activation: Prime for an Explosive Start

USA Olympian Jeff Jendryk shows how they activate for each game and what he does to feel ready at 100% capacity form the very first point.

All Courses, Professional Liberos, Train with NCAA Athletes

Learn from Zatorksi, Train with Ryan Merk

Train with 2x World Champion Pawel Zatorski and noezybuckets athlete and All-American, Ryan Merk

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Overhead Defense

Defense can be easy when the ball is right at us but what happens when the ball is at our chest, our head and maybe high and to the side? You deserve to dig more balls and to separate yourself from other liberos, digging balls above your waist.

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Defensive Split Step and Footwork

Using the Split Step on defense to prime our legs and reset our defensive posture so we can dig more hard attacks, tips, balls of the block and unexpected attacks more consistently

All Courses, Digging Path - Phase 3

Open Hand Defense

I LOVE this concept! This was something that drastically changed my defensive efficiency late in my career, just with a small change of 'scooping' balls with the hands, rather than the platform.

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Open Hand Pursure

Why open hand? More surface area, more control and more ability to shape the ball where we want it to go with our fingers! Let's try this amazing style of digging that I learned from Pawel Zatorski.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Train with HS Athletes, Libero Academy Clinics

Libero Academy Clinic 2024

Jump in the gym with real life Libero Academy members and let's get to work on becoming a more efficient passer and defender.

All Courses, Professional Liberos

Train with Serginho

Join me in Brazil to train with the 2016 Olympic MVP and the best libero of all time, Sérgio 'Serginho' Santos! There is so much to learn from Sergio as he plays the game with a very creative and passionate style.

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 2

Pass High Float Serves

Deep Float serves are so frustrating! We can get jammed, feel like we are in the wrong place or even worse, fumble trying to pass with our hands last second. This course will be all about reading and navigating flat, fast, deep floats serves.

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 2

Pass Short Float Serves

What can we do when the ball drops under our hips, under our knees and below our feet? I don't believe we should pass every ball the same and when we try and pass low balls perfect - we get into a lot of trouble.

All Courses, Train with HS Athletes

West Coast Future Clinic

I brought together 5 of the best c/2027 liberos on the West Coast to put them through professional concepts as they prepare these next two years for their collegiate teams. Learn along side these amazing liberos.

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 2

Pocket Passing

Float Serves are TOUGH! This is my perspective on how you can have the most success navigating a serve that is moving up, down, left and/or right! Let's get to work in helping you become more confident with Float Serves.

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 3

How to do Show and Take

Show up and SHOW OUT in front of college coaches with this concept. I'm going to show you common mistakes and the proper timing to help you take more court and expand your GREATNESS!

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 2

Attack the Ball or Hold the Angle?

One of the most debated concepts in volleyball. My guess is 95% of coaches in the USA coach their athletes to "Hold their Platform." While most international coaches say to "Attack the Ball." Let's dive deep to the Pros and Cons of both!

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 1

Tracking the Serve

Tracking the Ball is HARD! But often, athletes like myself don't really have a clear 'sweet spot' in where we would like to contact it. Let's get clarity and confident of where and HOW to track Float Serves.

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 1

Passing Footwork

How do we move to the ball? Do we even know? For most of my career, I had no idea of how I moved towards serves. I also found that there was a lot of myth of how we should or shouldn't move. Let's get you moving with more efficiency!

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 1

Pre-Serve Posture

Most athletes have no idea how they stand and or why! Let's find your style with jump serves and float serves so you can get a quick first step towards the serve.

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 1

Pre-Serve Spacing

Most athletes have no idea how they hold their arms or why but I think it's important that we take complete control and autonomy in how we prepare for float and jump serves. Let's find your style.

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 2

Independent Arms for Passing

How do we navigate flat, floating float serves? One of the best pieces of advice I received from my National Team coach was to wait as long as possible to connect our platform. Let's dominate floats more consistently.

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 3

Extending Space on Jump Serves

Most athletes aren't used to training against BIG jump serves and when they come during the game, they get jammed and spun. I'll show you how you can navigate the heat on jump serves while keeping a precise angle and trajectory on the ball

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 3

How to Pass Jump Serves

Jump Serves are becoming more and more popular but most athletes are passing top spin serves like floats, I believe these are two very distinct skills. Let's get your prepared to dominate spin serves.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Train with NCAA Athletes

Learn From Dustin, Train with Ryan Merk

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Train with NCAA Athletes

Learn from Dustin, Train with Lexi

Train like an All-American with effort, attitude, and intent! Dive into the fundamentals of diving and open-hand digging and discover how to use independent arms on defense to expand your range and create more scoring opportunities for your team.

All Courses, Professional Liberos, Train with NCAA Athletes

Learn from Taichi, Train with Mason Briggs

Join Taichi Kawaguchi (Japan Professional Libero) as he trains Mason Briggs, focusing on higher level concepts such as setting with tempo, rotation in setting, direct setting and show and take for reception.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Parent Course

Drills for Parents

POV: You're a coach or an athlete who wants to know how to train and use every drill I use and with as much detail and intention possible! I spent 4 hours in the gym going over every defensive and reception drill I do with my 1:1 athletes.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Train with HS Athletes

Elite High School Girls' Clinic with Dustin Watten

Let's get to work with who I believe are the best 2027 and 2025 liberos. If you're crushing it and looking for another level, this is your course! Work on short floats, show and take and footwork with Kaitlyn and Taylor.

All Courses, Serving, Professional Liberos, Train with NCAA Athletes

Nicolas Szerszeń Serving Clinic

Jump in the gym with noezybuckets athlete: Spencer Olivier and 3x All-American and 2x NCAA Champion Nicolas Szerszeń as he takes your through drills and concepts you can use to upgrade your end-line presence.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Train with HS Athletes, Libero Academy Clinics

Libero Academy Clinic 2023

Jump in the gym with 16 Libero Academy members as I work them through the most important passing and defensive concepts for u-18 liberos.

All Courses, Scout and IQ

How to Scout Servers

Let's prepare, scout and plan like a PRO! You deserve to lead your reception line, to be one step ahead of the servers and to put your receivers in great positions so they can pass with more confidence. Become the leader your team needs!

All Courses, Mental Performance

Mindset and Journaling

The libero position is seemingly a perfect vs. failure dichotomy.. but it doesn't have to be that way, we should be able to fail and to keep our confidence and clarity in the game. How do we do that? We must train our mind.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Train with HS Athletes

Future Clinic u-18 Girls

Jump in the gym with 5 of the best under-18 liberos in Canada for a full day event, training passing, digging and EQ work to prepare you to be prepared when things get tough on and off the court.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Train with HS Athletes

Future Clinic u-18 Boys Clinic

Jump in the gym with 5 of the best under-18 liberos in Canada for a full day event, training passing, digging and EQ work to prepare you to be prepared when things get tough on and off the court.

All Courses, Professional Liberos, Train with HS Athletes

Japanese Precision with Taichi Kawaguchi

Join Japanese Professional libero: Taichi Kawaguchi and three amazing High School Female Liberos as Taichi teaches them the foundation of Japanese ball control. Learn how you can be more efficient with your movement and more precise with your touch.

All Courses, Professional Liberos, Train with NCAA Athletes

The Complete Libero with Jenia Grebennikov

Train with 4x All-American Mason Briggs and learn from the 2020 Olympic Gold Medalist, Jenia Grebennikov. With over 14 international awards, Jenia is wide recognized as the best libero in the World. Watch this course 2-3 times.

All Courses, Professional Liberos, Train with HS Athletes

French Creativity with Benjamin Diez

Jump in the gym with Kellen Larson (Libero of the U-19 Team USA) and Ben Diez, libero for the French National Team and Professional Libero currently playing in Poland.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Scout and IQ

Studying NCAA W Liberos

Let's study the best, specifically Lexi Rodriguez. Notice her split step timing, where she contacts the ball and what she is doing with her legs on contact.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Train with HS Athletes

Serve Receive Clinic with Dustin Watten

Let's JUMP in the gym and go over my favorite drills that I used this past season as a pro and with the clubs and 1v1 athletes I work with - so you train with confidence, with more INTENTION and PURPOSE!

All Courses, Mental Performance

Mindset Course by Josh Brecheisen

Josh Brecheisen is a Mental Performance coach, working with Zoe Fleck and Dustin Watten. He won a NCAA championship with BYU. He works with professional, NCAA, and youth athletes, using his signature Game Ready pre-game mental performance technique

All Courses, Serving, Professional Liberos, Train with NCAA Athletes

Nicolas Szerszeń - Jump Serve Course

Join 2x NCAA Champion, 2016 NCAA Player of the Year and current professional OH Nicolas Szerszeń as he shares his journey and what has helped him become one of the most dominate servers to ever play in the NCAA and the #1 server in the Plus-Liga.

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 2

Choose a Side or Midline Passing?

Choose a Side or Midline?! I'll give you my take on these debated question for how to pass Float Serves with other Professional Liberos chipping in on their philosophy to help you dominate Float Serves!

All Courses, Digging Path - Phase 1

Independent Arms for more digs

Let's build your defensive range but first we have to get clear on a very common but in-efficient move most defenders make. Let's get you digging MORE balls!

All Courses, Passing Path - Phase 1, Digging Path - Phase 2

Training the Split Step

Let's train a quicker first step. Every other 'net' sport trains and the split step, why is it so different for volleyball? Let's dig in and help you train a more conscious and dynamic first step.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Train with NCAA Athletes

NCAA Mens' Libero Clinic - Anaheim, CA

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Start Here

All Courses, Scout and IQ

Libero Master Class

All Courses, Professional Liberos

Taichi's Japanese School of Volleyball

The most mysterious school of volleyball. Here's a Free peak at Day 1 of Taichi's Japanese School of Volleyball. I've learned so much as it's an incredible insight into this unique school of volleyball. The Full course will be inside once completed.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core

Digging Course

7 Days of Digging, get curious and creative to how you can evolve your defensive game. I recommend to watch one video at a time. Soak in each topic and line up the concepts with the liberos featured in the Academy to see the styles in play.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core

Passing Course

7 Days of Passing to upgrade the clarity you train with. I recommend to watch one video at a time. Soak in each topic and line up the concepts with the liberos featured in the Academy to see which style you like best.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Train with NCAA Athletes

NCAA Womens' Libero Clinic - Las Vegas

Think like a pro, train with 9 amazing collegiate liberos - including our noezybuckets' athletes: Zoe Fleck, Lexi Rodriguez and Mason Briggs. You guys asked for drills and we have plenty, as you'll watch me explain principles behind each drill.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Scout and IQ

NEB Athlete 1v1 Film

1v1 Coaching calls with the noezybuckets athletes - dive deep with us as we take a deeper look at the defensive and passing principles in the courses, recapping their performances and building intention for them to train like a pro.

All Courses, Dustin Watten Core, Scout and IQ

Dusty's Film Breakdown

When I was younger, it was very difficult to watch my bad receptions - now I love it. It's already happened, there is no changing it but I "get" to learn and find similar themes that I "get" to improve on. I suggest watching my bad passes first.

All Courses, Scout and IQ

Post Game Video Room

Not every game is the "Best Game Ever" but that's where I get to learn the most. Join me as I take you along in my thought process, how I prepared our scouting report, what worked, what didn't and how I will improve and move forward.

All Courses, Scout and IQ

Libero Analysis

All Courses, Scout and IQ, Passing Path - Phase 3

Scouting Servers

This is where YOU can separate yourself from the competition. Enjoy the game more, with great preparation. How do you prepare and scout video? Let me show you - we will go through my scouting as well as some of the noezybuckets liberos. LFG

All Courses, Scout and IQ

NCAA Video Breakdown