Unlock More Velocity and Longevity in your Athletes Arm Swings!

Below you will find:

  1. Two of our essential physical assessments to explore with your athletes.

  2. Exercises to improve athletes physical ability to adopt an efficient arm swing pattern.

  3. On-court drills to improve arm swing patterns.

  4. Information on how to bring us into your organization to work together on creating arm swing changes!

Physical Assessments

Here are a couple physical assessments to test out with your athletes to see if they have some of the fundamental physical pre-requisites to hit hard with less pain. If they do not, incorporating the exercises below into their pre-training prep or assign it as “homework” for them to be completing at home so they have adequate physical ability to hit hard with efficient patterns!

Shoulder External Rotation

If limited on uncomfortable try these 2-exercises in your teams pre-training preparation.

Spine Rotation

If limited on uncomfortable try these 2-exercises in your teams pre-training preparation.

ARM SWING DRILLS

This phase progresses through a variety of exercises and drills to get the body ready to master 3 keys for a powerful arm swing: rotation, looseness, and low draw back.

Quick Refresher of The 3 Keys:

Here is a simplified version of how we would progress athletes at the start of practices. Beginning with some throwing and attacking patterns on the ground and then progressing to approach throws. After approach throws as you know from our presentation, spin serves, attacks off a setter, or anything similar would be applied next!

Changing Patterns On-Court

Bring us into your organization and together let’s revolutionize the world of arm swing training!

Volleyball Clubs (Juniors 12U-18U)

We Partner up with clubs across North America to work with both their coaches and athletes towards hitting harder with less pain!

Coaches

  • Coaches workshop connecting a deep understanding of the theory into practical application.

  • This is followed up by club access into our Arm Swing Academy for Coaches for our library of physical and technical drills to improve the arm swing!

Athletes

  • Full practice sessions devoted to rebuilding the arm swing from the ground up.

  • Physical assessments and exercises to unlock more freedom of movement in athletes bodies so we can get more out of the technical work to follow.

  • Throwing patterns building into spike serving and attacking progressions with mini-game play at the end. Guiding athletes towards success in the new pattern every step of the way to create actual changes in their arm swings.

  • The ENTIRE session is devoted to workshopping the arm swing from a process oriented lens. This alone is something athletes rave about, the time to not just change their arm swing by 1% but the space to completely overhaul their arm swings.

  • Clinics are followed up with resources designed to help athletes continue to make changes all season long!

University Team Consulting

Supporting you, your staff, and your athletes.

Our main goal is to support you in the way that you’re the most in need of our support. We don’t have a cookie cutter, one size fits all recipe that we travel around with. By getting to know your team, your goals and what resources you have access to we will come up with a solution that will deliver effective changes.

Typically our support begins with an immersive in-person experience over 1-3 days. During this time we work on and off the court with the team all together, in small groups, or in 1-on-1 situations. We get to know you and your support staff better, and work together to come up with solutions that will work for your program moving forwards.

We are usually brought in to accomplish either one or both of these goals:

  1. More arm swing velocity amongst attackers and spin servers.

  2. Better longevity and availability so athletes are healthy even at the end of long seasons.

Depending on your needs we may set up follow-up in-person experiences or virtual support for you and your athletes. Whenever possible this is the ideal set up as we know things come up, things change, and continued check-in points throughout a long season sustain the momentum of change!

  • Working with Nick from AWA over the last number of seasons has been very beneficial for our attackers. We’ve seen significant changes in arm swing mechanics resulting in improved velocity and health through biomechanics. His understanding of the arm swing and rich volleyball history have proven to be a game changer in the evolution we are seeing in Western Canada when it comes to how athletes utilize their arm and how coaches coach the arm swing.

    Brock Davidiuk, Head Coach Men's Volleyball
    University of Alberta Golden Bears

  • Working with Nick and Athlete Wellness Academy has been game changing for our program and our athletes. His innovative training methods have significantly increased our athletes’ physical tolerance, allowing them to train more often with far less pain. His expertise in arm swing mechanics is nothing short of genius; he stands at the forefront of training high level volleyball players and modern athletes.

    Adam Schriemer, Head Coach Men’s Volleyball

    Trinity Western University

  • “AWA’s arm swing work with our TEAM BC program this past year was amazing. I have long been a proponent of arm swing work, and AWA took it to a whole other level, teaching our athletes how to build a healthy and powerful arm swing from the ground up. I would highly recommend AWA’s arm swing camp as it will not only put you on the path to hitting with more velocity, but also give you a foundation to create healthy patterns that will allow you to play the sport we all love for longer!”

    Ryan Adams, Head Couch
    Team BC Selects Woman

  • Pat Hennelly

    "We have had Nick Del Bianco work with our team twice over the past two years. Nick made an immediate impact in terms of arm swing and velocity. Nick is a consummate professional and found the time to work with each player as well as team sessions. The drill progressions and technical feedback were excellent for all levels of arm swings. I would recommend working with Nick for any level of player or program. Besides the arm swing improvements, Nick also identified and helped multiple players with chronic injuries, from back pain to knee pain and shoulder. This was a pleasant surprise, given that we have a full-time rehabilitation, strength, and Physiotherapy team at TRU. I also watched Nick work with age class athletes from ages 12-18 and strongly recommend his program for any athlete that is serious about volleyball. I have always felt like arm swing mechanics are one of the most difficult to change technically, but Nick does a great job of identifying the issues and explaining the solutions."

    Pat Hennelly, Head Coach Men's Volleyball
    Thompson Rivers University Wolfpack

  • “Before AWA, we kept patching our team together and it wasn’t until we got to nationals that we realized we were playing in survival mode. We realized we had failed our team in not providing them with the tools they needed to succeed. Our past 4 seasons we have been working with AWA and our team is more resilient and ready for every game.”

    Ben Josephson, Head Coach
    Former Trinity Western University Spartans Men’s Volleyball Coach

  • "AWA has supported our athletes so well by providing them with new and better ways to do the important things in their lives, while helping them on their journey to staying healthy and maintaining their ability to do what they love—volleyball."

    Becky Garner, Head Coach Women's Volleyball
    Columbia BIble College Bearcats

  • "AWA is the whole package. They have figured out how to walk the path from self-discovery, to habit change, to high-performance across all areas of developing the whole athlete and person. Without their help, we would not have the success we do."

    Brent Hall, Head Coach Women's Volleyball
    Camosun College Chargers

  • "Over the past year, AWA has worked with our team to develop habits to build resiliency physically, mentally and emotionally. Their personal, holistic approach to identifying the needs of each individual athlete, combined with their professionalism and knowledge of the body and its systems have helped to create transformative rhythms in the lives of our athletes."

    Jason Warkentin, Head Coach Men's Volleyball
    Columbia Bible College Bearcats