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USA Volleyball Staff Expanding to Meet Needs

The USA Volleyball National Office has filled nine positions since middle of December 2010 as it works toward meeting current and future programming needs at the Regional and National levels. Read More

USAV Holds Beach Cadre Training Session

A who’s who of U.S. volleyball attended USA Volleyball’s first beach cadre training on Nov. 12-14 at the Dockweiler Youth Center in El Segundo, Calif. Read More

Gardner Gives Back for Olympic Day

Gabe Gardner, a two-time Olympian and 2008 Olympic gold medalist is a role model and inspiration to many through his athletic career. Gardner also believes in giving back to his community. Read More

USAV to Host Junior Forums at AVCA Convention

USA Volleyball will conduct several Junior Forums at the AVCA Annual Convention set for Dec. 16-19 at Tampa, Fla. Read More

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John Kessel oversees grassroots development and disabled volleyball at USA Volleyball. Watch here for his blog on growing our sport.

Latest The Evolution of the Butterfly Drill

Been thinking about one of the drills that most volleyball coaches and players, with a little bit of experience, known around the world – “Butterfly” More to the point I… Read More

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Turning Five Medals in to More Participants

Greetings Volleyball Family - The tremendous success of our teams in Beijing, including the Paralympic Sitting Women's team winning a silver medal last month, now opens this chance to share ideas with everyone on growing our sport together. This weekend, the Youth & Junior Olympic… Read More

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IMPACT and Clinic Thoughts

Having just done three IMPACT Webinars and a clinic for the Columbia Empire Region, including watching Saturday nite's 6A Oregon State Championships Showdown between Jesuit and West Linn...some core thoughts come to mind with what I am sharing, and want to pass along to all.

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Capitalization Rates, Birthdates and …

One of the first things that came out of our USOC conference for me was to hear from Dr. K Anders Ericsson that Malcom Gladwell was coming out with a new book. Sure enough, I went online and ordered Outliers, due out in a week. It will go along side his other GREAT reads titled – Tipping… Read More

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Passion, Burnout and Teaching

I just watched a very powerful ESPN Outside the Lines story on a very special athlete, Elena Della Donne. I strongly urge all Junior Olympic volleyball directors and coaches to watch it, as well as read the story. It has three important threads woven together – burn… Read More

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HP Clinic Lessons Shared

So we are in the fourth day of this year's USA Volleyball High Performance Coaches' Clinic and CAP I,II, III sessions here at the Olympic Training Center. Hugh McCutcheon, Tom Hogan and Peter Vint headline a group of our sport's most passionate people in presenting ideas to teach the sport… Read More

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The Leave a Ball Behind Program Impact

Today I packed up some volleyballs to send to the deserving programs of the Special Olympics in Jamaica and to coach Wiyaka Chasing Hawk, who is making volleyball happen for kids on the reservation at the Cheyenne River Project in Eagle Butte, S.D.

These donated balls came from the USA… Read More

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A Coaching Challenge and Reality

Just back from Milwaukee where over 60 coaches shared two full days of a CAP course. I got up at 3 am to catch a 6 am NW flight there and spent a very interesting part of Friday with the Badger Region Board of Directors and Junior Leaders, sharing ideas on growing the game…

Jenny… Read More

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More Street Volleyball Please

Hanging out at this year's NCAA Volleyball Championships in chilly Omaha, Neb., one cannot help but be warmed by the wonderful hospitality of the Cornhusker Nation and Great Plains members. Wednesday night, thanks to Sue Mailhot, commissioner of this region &ndash - which leads all 40 RVAs in… Read More

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Growing the Game in Oklahoma

Today's must read is by none other than Malcom Gladwell again - an excellent new article in the New Yorker on effective teaching and "predicting" success that you can access it here on their… Read More

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USOC Seminar on Development, Enhance …

Starting tomorrow, a USOC Seminar I have been looking forward to for months, is finally happening. Take a look at this schedule!  For those who have taken IMPACT, the names Schmidt and Ericsson have been seen for over 20 years throughout the motor skill section of the manual.  The title… Read More

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How We Make Decisions

Most of you reading my work over the years understand the importance I place on improving the most important skill in our sport – reading. As in reading the opponent, anticipating, judging what is going on etc. Stu Sherman took me back over 20 years ago to when his brother Craig, on his way… Read More

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How to Make Coaches Great

One of the sites I frequent often is posting new videos this week, as the TED conference for 2009 is happening right now. Yesterday I was talking with Andy Pai from our Coaching Education Program department, and realized he did not know of this website, which I share at every CAP, IMPACT ,… Read More

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The Art of Strategy

One of the things that I find fascinating is the "volleyball canyon" regarding the mental game.  To read about more of these gaps between what the game itself contains, and what coaches train in practice, Read More

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To Sit or Stand During Matches?

This week I got an email from a coach, who asked a great question - sit or stand during match play? Bill, a coach in GEVA, and Peter, from the USOC who I collaborate a lot with on the science of volleyball, have kindly said I can use our email discussion in today's blog, so here goes:
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The Tragedy of the Commons

I am starting with a look back into an article that remains timely in this day and age, Garret Hardin's 1968 piece called "The Tragedy of the Commons."  Many decades ago, I graduated from Colorado College with a degree focusing on bionomics. My thesis," Towards a Resourced Based Bionomic… Read More

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National Conversations on Good Coaching

 

Almost a year ago, Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA ), a Stanford University-based non-profit organization dedicated to transforming youth sports and USAV Affiliated Organization,  joined with USA Volleyball and seven other of the nation's top youth sports groups -… Read More

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The Talent Code – Deep Practice, Ign …

Sorry for the long break in postings - with two kids in teen sports (volleyball and lacrosse) both in state playoffs and finals almost upon us (and proms, who can forget THAT cultural right of passage...) and getting ready for the important USA Volleyball annual meetings, time to free range think… Read More

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The Loser's Club

The Loser's Club and Playing Blind

One of the things about YouTube is the way contests I would never have had the chance to "see" are now things I can enjoy and learn from. The clip below by a blind piano contestant, who just made the top 12 of this year's Van Cliburn, share today… Read More

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Olympism and the New White House Off …

The White House yesterday announced the forming of the Olympic, Paralympic and Youth Sports office. I sent out news of this last night to some friends and leaders with the correct phrasing in my opinion of the new formation of the Youth, Paralympic and Olympic Sports office. More than a few… Read More

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Tennis Anyone?

Warming up on the beach with your partner has two very powerful messages that indoor players and coaches need to listen to so that more kids find success earlier in the challenges of our sport.

First is the tradition/culture of Dig/Pass-set-hit to warm up with.… Read More

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Father's Day and Volleyball

 My father was my role model in countless ways, and I have done my best raising my kids as a single dad to follow in his World War II veteran footsteps. Fly Fishing, backpacking, skiing, and more, my kids have also done. It may also come as no surprise that both my kids love to play… Read More

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Volleyball and Fly Fishing

I got a new Orvis Helios 3wt recently. Made from the same carbon fiber they use on the Apache helicopters, it is feather light at 1.75 ounces total, and strong as heck, for casting into the afternoon winds along my favorite little streams. The science of technology amazes me, yet in our sport it… Read More

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Joy in Volleyball

A young player at the Boys' Junior Olympics. Photo by John Kessel.Today, the USA Junior Olympic Boys' Volleyball Championships… Read More

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Beachroots Volleyball in Vanuatu

 I have come back to where my grandfather, father and a guy named James Michener once travelled and worked.  My grandfather John Fitzgerald, based out of the Tahiti, fighting to eradicate the dreaded Elephantiasis disease from all the thousands of islands, for the World Health… Read More

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More Volleyball From Vanuatu

Espiritu Santo...Wrecks to Rainforest -- Vanuatu, Discover untouched seclusion and beauty...that is what Carte de Luganville - the map of this town says.... To see and do here?  World class diving, SS President Coolidge, Million Dollar Point, pristine coral reefs...game fishing....adventure… Read More

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Landslide

What do Tori Amos, Smashing Pumpkins, Dixie Chicks, The Dance, and Stevie Nicks/Fleetwood Mac all have in common?  Whether acapella, acoustic guitar, solo piano, or more - each have sung the powerful song "Landslide" in a beautiful way, and those songs I have been playing over and over on my… Read More

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Back to My Iowa Grassroots

 

 

I have come back to the place that my coaching of coach's journey really began, to a land where nighthawks cry at dusk. Indeed, the 17 year cicadas are now on their third generation since those times, and still vibrate out their amazingly loud ascending and… Read More

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Paralympic Sports Clubs & Military Sports Programs

I traveled some this summer doing mostly weekend clinics around the USA primarily for coaches and PE teachers at the youth level. I journeyed from Lander, Wyoming, to Long Island, New York, and places like Phoenix for the newly relocated Volleyball Festival, and Atlanta for the Boy’s Jr.… Read More

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Reflections on Open Gym

My son Cody is a senior at the oldest high school here in Colorado Springs.  We decided together to start a volleyball club at his school this year, to help grow the boy's high school club program. He is also captaining the varsity lacrosse team again this spring, as an attackman, and by my… Read More

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Tryouts and Our Deepest Fear

Tryouts can bring out our deep fears, as the talent pyramid begins its inexorable narrowing. From six elementary schools teams, to a couple or so junior high 7th grade teams. From the those junior highs to the one high school program, an onward into the college level.  No athlete… Read More

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A Long Month of Champions

This is may be the best volleyball "month" in the year --  from late October in Wyoming to mid-December this year in Florida--  as some 49 states host district, regional and then final State High School Championships, while the NCAA and NAIA see their over 1,500… Read More

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May We Please Leave a Court Up?

Over 20 years ago I was working with the University of Colorado program, working with several club teams to merge them into a single varsity program. In this process,  I reached one of my top 10 goals in volleyball, that of having a single volleyball court always up for any level of play to… Read More

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Thanks on Thanksgiving

On this holiday, I wanted to take just a bit of time to give thanks to everyone in the volleyball family around the world. It has been a challenging November for my own family, as the young man we have been hosting since summer when his family had to move out of state to keep their jobs, an IB… Read More

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No More Drills, Feedback or Technical Training...

OK coach, hopefully this title has made you click through to this blog to see what the heck I could be thinking here. Please take the time to read and chew on what I am asking you to consider. I will take them in order as each need their own points of consideration.

No More… Read More

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The Power of Story & Serving

This is a special weekend for me, as I am working with the best, Carl McGown, as part of his staff at the first Gold Medal Squared Coaching Clinic here at Arizona State University. If you get a chance to attend one of their multi-day sessions - you will come away a better coach, and since the… Read More

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The Score Takes Care of Itself

 I have been watching my son play up this weekend against the teams in Men's A division here in Colorado. As I marvel at how well 17 and 18 year olds fare against the older, far more experienced men, one key thing comes to mind that we all need to do better. - To play one point at a time. If… Read More

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Your Practice Objectives Should not be a Secret

One of the things about being here at the Olympic Training Center is the chance to watch so many other teachers of elite sport and athletes do their thing. As I watch other coaches teach, one thing stands out to me, in that they all are very good at communicating, storytelling, and player… Read More

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To Build Up or Tear Down - Lessons i …

Before dawn last Monday morning I was on my laptop, connected to USA Volleyball's office with Office Communicator, when I saw I was getting a call from an unknown number and area code. I answered, and found myself talking to Byron Shewman, head of our Starlings USA program. He had been in Haiti… Read More

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Specificity & Simplicity

To grow the game, and importantly your skills as a teacher/coach of sport, it is best to seek the effective practices of those who have gone before, and those smarter than you, so that you can stand on their shoulders and see even farther. With the advent of the Internet, there is a lot of chaff… Read More

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The Cumulative Effect

I have been watching the Winter Olympics as much as my travel and work schedule allows, and have been struck by some of concepts I would like to share. How much everything matters and how important it is to hustle to the very end, and how nations support their national teams and programs.

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Stuff Happens

Flying back from a great clinic in the "Hittin Mitten" I did with Hugh McCutcheon and Gary Sato. Signed all sorts of USAV Logo banners for the kids in our clinic - "Citius, Altius, Fortius," as these are all USAV Jr. Olympic Volleyball players -- hopefuls to be future Olympians....and they… Read More

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Establishing a Culture of Play

One of the more important principles to focus on in youth sports, especially volleyball, is to create an environment which encourages play. The value of play, from "street soccer" as best seen in Brazil but really found worldwide, to "pond hockey" in Canada and "driveway or playground hoops" or… Read More

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LTAD, Michael Jackson and the CAVB

Symbolically I start this blog as I am flying over Olympia, Greece, one of my… Read More

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Developing Amazing Leaders Too

Some of you who have taken an IMPACT course from… Read More

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Three Word Coaching Philosophies

In my last blog I noted how the US Paralympic Symposium was named the same as my own simple coaching… Read More

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Wounded Warrior Games

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The Science of Motivation

 There have only been a few books which I have bought multiple copies of to share with others impacting my life. One happens each May/June, when I give “A Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor Frankel to high school and college… Read More

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Around a League in 80 Days

This past February 23rd, some twenty boys gathered in Palmer’s main gym, to start playing volleyball for their high school. Just ten weeks later, the two teams formed from the sweat and hard work of these young men, would end their season at Regionals, and not advance to the… Read More

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The Player Who Knows WHY Beats the P …

Last week I found myself with my kids, headed over Wolf Creek Pass, the ski area still patchworked with deep snow, as my son drives over the Continental Divide - and I get to work on the laptop.  We are returning from several days working the Native American Volleyball Academy, run by the… Read More

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100 Years of Volleyball Research Secret

This week finds me in Edmond, Oklahoma, somewhere on Tornado Alley (noted in part by the bright green “Severe Weather Shelter” signs in the gyms we are working, for the 2010 World Sitting Volleyball Championships. We have made it through days of set up, and an inspiring opening… Read More

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Fact vs. Fiction

At the 2010 Sitting World Championships, doing all sorts of things, from court set up to photography. Starting today, I move to the role of coaching the coaches again – in this case in the Wounded Warrior project we will be “training the trainers.” Ten military leaders… Read More

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Pyramids of Success

Another girls’ high school season is soon upon us, and I have been thinking about pyramids, thanks to seeing them when doing the 38 nation clinic  in Egypt this past spring. How so much of our work we do at the grassroots level to grow the game, is done to help make the top of… Read More

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From Orphans to Club Olympic

A US State Department Sports United program has me taking a week of my vacation time, to head to Bolivia – to work with Club Olympic, Paralympic and Special Olympic coaches, hundreds of teachers and even more players from all over the nation. Basing out of Cochabamba and Santa Cruz… Read More

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Contacts Per Hour

One of the four banners I travel with for clinics no matter where in the world I go, is a banner with the title of this blog. It is a way to summarize the motor learning principle of increasing opportunities to respond.  As we learn by doing, not watching, one of the core ways to get better… Read More

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IMPACTing Learning

Over 22 years ago, I sat down with Bill Neville and Mike Flemming, at Bill’s house in Colorado Springs, and began the writing of new book on the fundamental levels of coaching. This week, I helped out doing IMPACT Instructor refresher courses by webinar, from the comfort of our own… Read More

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Growing Through Our 3rd Season of Webinars

You know, USA Volleyball (USAV) has maintained a web presence since the mid-90's, starting with the help of Tom Jack at www.volleyball.org and progressing through our current partnership with Read More

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USAV Youth & Mini Volleyball

USAV Youth & Mini Volleyball

One of the things we find at USA Volleyball is that given the size of our nation and the number of things we do in our sport (Paralympic, Olympic, Beach, Youth, Seniors, Coaching, Officiating, Diversity Inclusion – like boys, Starlings USA and… Read More

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Never be a Child’s Last Coach

Last week at the LTAD Conference in Canada, I found it most intriguing that of the many ideas I shared, the one that resonated the strongest was the title of this blog. After my keynote speech, just about every following speaker noted it in some fashion, tying it into their own… Read More

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Ten Imprudent and Obtuse Things I Ge …

While my grassroots article from over 20 years ago shows lots more of the things I have somehow either changed or even completely avoided (CLICK HERE to download… Read More

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Primum Non Noncore

Some of you may know the Hippocratic Oath, given to medical doctors. For those who do not know, it translates simply to First Do No Harm. This is a cornerstone in my philosophy of developing amazing leaders and growing the game. I believe this oath should be given to each coach, for in my… Read More

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Thoughts on Warming Up - Practice & Pre-Match

I am a month into coaching my 14 team, I call them the Fourteeners, after our 52 highest 14,000 foot plus mountain peaks we have here in Colorado, including the snow shrouded one right out the USA Volleyball office window known as Pikes Peak. I figured I would simply share what I wrote my team,… Read More

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...I Don't Think We're in Kansas Anymore....

Hope you all made it home safe and sound...and not too exhausted!
 
So....there's no place like home...after another great week at the annual AVCA Convention in Kansas City just completed with one of the most exciting finishes since.... well since… Read More

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Ohana & Play

Happy New Year everyone….I am thinking about the chance to give young players a love of the game is perhaps the most important job of any coach along the path of each athlete’s development. This fostering of passion for volleyball is made easy by the very nature of this game,… Read More

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A Hard Day for Haiti

I missed the first power tourney to travel for work. I went to San Diego for two days to teach coaches and leaders at the Starlings USA Directors Convention. Starlings is a program for economically disadvantaged athletes. USAV and Starlings USA promote the Haiti Street Project, where Haitian… Read More

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Top Ten Serving Secrets

So I spent the last four nights in Hartford, Connecticut. Snowfall of a greater amount in the storm than any other time in recorded history. Temperatures lower than any time in the last six years. So the aptly named Winterfest Tournament took place on over 20 courts in the Convention… Read More

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Reading & the HP Clinic Redux


The last few days of the High Performance Clinic here at the Olympic Training Center brought back memories of a joke Craig Sherman, former Univ of Missouri head coach, pulled on me in the late 1970s at a USA National Development Camp. As head coach, I had spoken at… Read More

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Creating and Training Resilient Athletes

What a great IMPACT webinar last week, with Andy Pai answering the 200 coaches’ written questions that poured in, while Phil Shoemaker, head coach at University of Alaska Fairbanks, and I shared about 100 total years of collective insights for these new coaches to learn from. One… Read More

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Choosing the Right Words

I have been reflecting on the lack of specificity in most coaches’ teaching, as well as the choice of words we often make by habit.  I am reminded of this as we are scripting some free videos to share this year, but mostly it is due to the difficulty I see coaches go through and how… Read More

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Stats for Parents and Players

I oft speak of the impact  a Discover magazine article long ago had on me, on how we are fooled by randomness, in helping me be a better parent and coach.  A short TED.com clip on why we need to teach our kids stats over calculus – as my daughter struggles to decide… Read More

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Quantum Hoops II

You may have already read that one of the more fascinating documentaries I own and sometimes share with players and coaches is about Cal Tech Basketball, titled Quantum Hoops. It is a fascinating long look back at the history of the sport of basketball played at the California Institute of… Read More

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STOP Teaching Passing!

No matter where I go in the world to teach, the traditional coaches mantra of “Can’t pass, can’t hit” is one of the first statements I hear in any language.  Then, when we introduce our sport to new players of any age, the first skill taught is almost always… Read More

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Tuesday Tips for the Coaches of Chaos

Greetings. In meetings with our Region Services staff, I have been expressing my desire to help the teachers of sport in separating the wheat from the chaff. There is so much information out there, that great reads, videos and ideas get lost. So this weekly blog is simply done to help… Read More

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Tuesday Tips for the Coaches of Chaos 2

Nightstand Book of the week – Seth Godin’s Lynchpin . GO Make something happen is his mantra of sorts….favorite quote of many "Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow… Read More

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Tuesday Tips for the Coaches of Chao …

Master Class

US Olympic Committee High Performance Director Peter Vint did a FANTASTIC webinar for USAV coaches called “On the Edge of Human Achievement” – You can find the webinar on your USAV RVA website for viewing. In the 90 minutes he shared with the… Read More

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Tuesday Tips for the Coaches of Chaos - 3.22.11

Fooled by Randomness

Readers of this blog may tire of how often I keep reminding us that by choosing sport as a way to develop leadership and character, that we must not forget that the outcome is out of our control, no matter how hard we work. We are now in “March… Read More

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Tuesday Tips for the Coaches of Chaos 3/29/11

Open Source Volleyball – Chuck Rey has a very good blog worth bookmarking, and recently wrote about some of the reasons USA Volleyball is such a strong National Governing Body and national program. Check it out by Read More

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TWO Tuesday Tips for the Coaches of  …

Sorry for the delay, I have been overseas for over a week teaching more than 50 coaches from five NORCECA nations, including Haiti, on beach, minivolley, youth, sitting and Special Olympic volleyball with USA Volleyball CAP cadre members Sue Gozansky and Bill Hamiter. More on that some other… Read More

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Promoting Volleyball

Promoting volleyball is a duty of every coach and player. Luckily, we have a great lifetime sport to share with others.

There are lots of material on the USAV website, including the handout on "Why USAV is the Right Choice," and the "Volleyball Basics Guide." Articles like "How to Stage a… Read More

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Tuesday Tips for the Coaches of Chaos - 4.26.11

It’s an eclectic Tuesday here, maybe reflecting the week we have in store for us which has included coaching at a qualifier, attending the USOC National Governing Body Best Practices Seminar on Governance, assisting the NORCECA Board of Administration and Executive… Read More

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A Change of Seasons

So dear team, our club season has come to an end, including my time to be in practice and competition guiding your development and training. It is time for you to coach yourself, figuring things out implicitly, with a little bit of guided discovery from a crafty mentor as a partner… Read More

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Tuesday Tips for the Coaches of Chaos 5.3.11

Jimi and Melissa

So I am sitting in the U.S. Olympic Training Center Aquatics 006 room in Colorado Springs, and there is a huge picture of Jimi Flowers and Melissa Stockwell at the Beijing Olympic Natatorium during the 2008 Paralympics. The loss of Jimi to a mountain… Read More

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Summer Volleyball Options

So with Regionals done for every USAV player, congrats are in order to those advancing on to Nationals, or on to USAV High Performance programming. This blog is for the rest of you who wonder what is best to do this summer....and for those programs which may be playing indoors in a June… Read More

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Tuesday Tips for the Coaches of Chaos 5.10.11

Coaching Behaviour: Last night I did a final IMPACT webinar, and at some point we talk about the “TV Test” aka the “Grandma Test” or the “YouTube” test – as in, would you want your action to be seen on TV, YouTube or have your grandmother hear… Read More

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Bionic Warriors and Heroes

This week begins one of the more special annual events held at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, the Wounded Warrior Games. No time for Tuesday Tips for the Coaches of Chaos, sorry. This event is just mega-important to the volleyball family. That said, this Thursday is a… Read More

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Inclusion Through Sitting Volleyball


Many readers know of my passion for the disabled side of our sport – from Paralympic to Special Olympics.  Some recent news is that the World Games for the Special Olympics will be in Los Angeles in 2015 so start planning, and I will be serving on the Jury… Read More

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To My Amazing Daughter - Performance IS Variable

Last night was one of those powerful times where parenting and sports collide. I am going to get a bit personal here, as the impact moment happened to my daughter’s team and my daughter, who I am also writing to in this specific blog.

A bit of background, so my readers who do… Read More

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Random Observations on Coaches...

I have observed thousands of coaches presenting skill and drill ideas to others – both players and coaches – in the last 40 years of my coaching career, and have come to some observations to consider.

Coaches on the court like to hear themselves talk. And… Read More

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STOP Teaching Setting

After the dialogue from my blog called “Stop Teaching Passing”  - I felt as this junior season starts up that it is important to give all you teachers of the game a few more titles to chew on. What in gosh sakes am I saying here, when I spent last season teaching my kids a… Read More

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International Guest Blog - Power Cup …

This special international edition guest blog comes to us from Lauri Aatos Hakala.  As a collegiate men’s player at BYU under the great Carl McGown, he was a great student of the game. Now he is naturally moving into being an… Read More

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The Rare Find

I just finished one of those books that I feel all readers of this Growing the Game Together blog should also take the time to read. Then re-read. Long ago, then US Olympic team coach Terry Liskevych, told me of a study on talent, done with the National Football League general managers… Read More

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Powerful ESPN Story Telling

 

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Great by Choice / Thinking, Fast & Slow

OK, One down, two books to go…. 

I blogged about the one down The Rare Find last week.

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Warrior Transition Unit Europe - Vet …

This seems fitting to post on Veterans Day....I’ve been on the second largest US Army base in the world this week, somewhere in Germany about 120km from Frankfurt, in between Mac’s regionals (they advanced, now 26-0…) and the State Championships in Denver.  The… Read More

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I Love to Watch you Play

As my last child winds her way through that last year of high school, somehow juggling five AP classes, two varsity sports with captains practices and road trips, peer counseling, friendships that have endured 3/4th her life on this remarkable planet….I keep thinking on… Read More

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Stand By Me

 

Just back from National AAHPERD Convention, big success, thousands of PE teachers learning new ideas, and will share that in a separate blog.  I spent most my time with the Brazilian Director of Coaching Education and another Brazilian coach, and got caught up in their… Read More

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Videos and Principles Worth Many Tho …

If a picture is worth a thousand words, those who have heard me speak know that I love to use video and images to say far more, during the always too short time I find I have to present.  Since it is the holiday season, it seems fitting to give away some of my favorite videos to help… Read More

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Cameras, Athletes and Role Modeling

Some of you may know that during my time at Colorado College and after, I worked as a summer hiking guide, did winter ascents, and Outward Bound courses, river rafting thru the Gates of the Ladore (Green River, Wyoming) and climbing in Colorado (they based out of Marble, Colorado, near… Read More

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Coaching the Human Animal

An advance heads up to start this blog, it is going to cost you the price of buying a movie, which you likely have not seen and which has become one of my favorite movies ever – documentary really – as it teaches huge lessons to all those wanting to be a better coach, teacher,… Read More

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What Can a Player Control?

This week my son Cody is playing in his first ever college matches for Princeton. He has been touching base lately about his concerns about playing at this next level, which will be played against California teams like UCSD (who Princeton has not defeated in over 11 years) Long Beach and… Read More

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The Evolution of the Butterfly Drill

Been thinking about one of the drills that most volleyball coaches and players, with a little bit of experience, known around the world – “Butterfly” More to the point I guess I have been reflecting on how the motor learning principles of increasing contacts per hour… Read More

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