Its not Failure, Its Learning
Allowing kids to learn and teach themselves is difficult, especially when you consider that the best learning happens during failure. Coaches must foster education by allowing that failure, not preventing it.
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14 Things That Always Happen at Volleyball Tournaments
They always happen, and No. 10 is the worst!
7 tips to get back into the gym
Kick-start getting back into the gym with 7 of our tips
Lessons From a Nose Flute
Learning to play this new instrument and letting others figure it out helps to drive home the lesson that doing the activity is the most important than other things outside of it.
Four Tips to Improve Footwork and Speed in the Sand
Top USA beach athletes give tips to improving footwork and speed
A Major Change in My Feedback
Most coaches who have taken IMPACT learned that a coach’s feedback/feed-forward is the most important form of changing an athlete’s skill set.
Thoughts on Defense
Defense is plodding attention to duty, grit and determination and perseverance. It requires an act of will and risk. All you need is the decision to put out and give 100 percent.
Thoughts for Setters
Because of the nature of the sport and the number of contacts afforded the setter, they carry a dramatically over-weighted value.
Am I Too Short To Play Volleyball?
First things first, height is not a deciding factor in and of itself to ever prevent anyone in our sport from reaching the very highest level.
The Pathway To Being a Olympian
First and perhaps most important, is that Olympism is a process that begins when an athlete discovers an Olympic sport. From that point on, their love of the game is guided by what Olympism stands for.