ACTION TYPES with Elena Kiesling (2 of 2)
Sep 17, 2026 · 30 min · 11 segments
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Sep 17, 2026 · 30 min · 11 segments
Elena KieslingGuestJohn MayerHost
So there's a, a lot that we could unpack, and I know you could probably do another like five-hour PowerPoint to show videos and break it all down so people will have to, to look even more into it.
So you have, um, you have four categories of profiles, right? So, um, imagine a four times four matrix, and you have, um, you know, one column that are so-called distal profiles because they are very good, very far away from their, their body.
And for each profile category, you get one through four, and you look at the different motor preferences.
And the most important ones are you have so-called walking from the bottom types and walking from the top, um, types.
So you would look at a player and see if they organize themselves from the hips and the legs upward versus from the shoulders downward, right? Um, and that makes a, that makes a difference, for example, how you would, um, develop them, them in a strength and conditioning, uh, program, for example.
Or how they would move on the court, whether they move better forward or whether they move better backward.
And that's actually the one where there is, um, some, let's call it real research on.
Um, there's a, there's a lab in Switzerland, I think, um, that has actually, uh, done research on walking bottoms and walking tops.
The second one is, um, you look at where, where players rotate, whether they rotate through the hip, which usually looks like they rotate hip and shoulder kind of simultaneously, um, versus they rotate through their shoulder like the, um, thoracic spine, shoulder blade height.
That's usually the players that can create a, like a big X factor, okay? So but not all players can do that.
And in volleyball, we tend to, like, force people to open up really, like, long opening and, um, a big X factor to generate more power in an attack.
Um, action type would definitely advise against that because you have players who are-- who rotate through the hip.
So there's a, a lot that we could unpack, and I know you could probably do another like five-hour PowerPoint to show videos and break it all down so people will have to, to look even more into it.
So you have, um, you have four categories of profiles, right? So, um, imagine a four times four matrix, and you have, um, you know, one column that are so-called distal profiles because they are very good, very far away from their, their body.
And for each profile category, you get one through four, and you look at the different motor preferences.
And the most important ones are you have so-called walking from the bottom types and walking from the top, um, types.
So you would look at a player and see if they organize themselves from the hips and the legs upward versus from the shoulders downward, right? Um, and that makes a, that makes a difference, for example, how you would, um, develop them, them in a strength and conditioning, uh, program, for example.
Or how they would move on the court, whether they move better forward or whether they move better backward.
And that's actually the one where there is, um, some, let's call it real research on.
Um, there's a, there's a lab in Switzerland, I think, um, that has actually, uh, done research on walking bottoms and walking tops.
The second one is, um, you look at where, where players rotate, whether they rotate through the hip, which usually looks like they rotate hip and shoulder kind of simultaneously, um, versus they rotate through their shoulder like the, um, thoracic spine, shoulder blade height.
That's usually the players that can create a, like a big X factor, okay? So but not all players can do that.
And in volleyball, we tend to, like, force people to open up really, like, long opening and, um, a big X factor to generate more power in an attack.
Um, action type would definitely advise against that because you have players who are-- who rotate through the hip.
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