Continue on with my experience with volleyball pancake, I have been practicing this specific skill during team practices for approximately a month now. I am confident to say that I am way more familiar with the “pancake” skill than I was before the start of this CAS experience. I feel enthusiastic about making solid progress on it and being confident enough to apply this skill in a game.
After some fundamental works and few precise attempts on enhancing this skill (see an example on the video of the previous post), I evaluated the things that could be done even more effectively and revised the practice to make it more beneficial on improving this specific skill. For example, I found out that the skill has to be utilized at a suitable range, not too close and not too far. Setting that particular range is significant because it creates a more comfortable motion on diving the ball rather than having some awkward motions when the ball is too close to the body. Moreover, it helps to make the entire motion more smoothly and more essentially, help to increase the chance to actually dig up the ball for further continuation of the play.
In addition, I decided to wear the elbow protection while practicing pancake skills. It can lower down the risk to get injured, which is essential especially on during such advanced skill that creates more direct contact with the floor. Also, the elbow protection is able to limit the friction between the skin and the floor which help to make the continuation of motion more completely.
As a result, I have successfully displayed a complete motion of the pancake skill and successfully dug up the ball. I reached my goal in this CAS experience, which is to “pancake” 8 out of 10 balls in a trail. It’s a meaningful and remarkable experience for me especially on completing my first CAS experience.