[NewEnglandRT]

I like T.B.'s suggestion for having a good warm up.

Solving this issue is a personal one. For instance, having grown up an ice hockey goaltender I'm used to just sitting by myself and focusing on my internal monolauge (sp?) and visualizing my successfull play. In other sports (wrestling) as a team we would get the locker room hopping with loud music and start pumping each other up, getting that adrenaline going helped (not so much for the heavier guys who had later matches!).

There's lots of ways go shake what you've got. There are also volumes of books out there on this type of sports performance. What you've got isn't physical it's mental. Gotta git'cho mind right!

Try a couple different things, maybe before warm ups sit quitely and visualize passing and digging at your best.... maybe look at the other teams players and imagine passing/digging them in particular. Take a good warm up and have your partner get progressivley more aggressive and make you work building up your confidence level along the way and keep repeating to yourself... "I've got this, everyball is my ball, nothing drops!" when you get on the court just keep repeating it to yourself and remember how confident you feel practicing.

I don't know what kind of person you are or how to do it best, give that a shot and give us some feedback on how it worked out. There are at least two guys on here who are pretty competative liberos who can help you out more (tbarbera and coach manzi).