Play One-on-One To Be Great
The short version of this article is simple: Have fun playing more one-on-one and you will be better because you learn most by contacting the ball over a net.
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My Favorite Player
After 30-plus years of coaching in this great sport, I think it is time to tell you who my favorite player is. Every coach has one, you see, and I am no different.
Volleyball Fun for Youth
Great ideas to make volleyball fun for kids.
Oh the Games We Can Play
IMPACT training provides a long list scrimmage scoring options. Some coaches mistakenly read this as “all you do is play games” with supposedly no focus on technical skills. The assumption is, since it is not a coach controlled training environment, it must not be technical.
Fifteen Reasons You DON’T Want to Play Volleyball
You spend most of your time active. Wouldn’t you rather play a sport where you get to sit around most of the time like baseball, cricket or wrestling? While you get to rest a bit between points, volleyball makes all 12 people on the court move all over the place and that is just tiring!
YET
My son had something that I gave to him in his dorm room at Princeton; in capital letters on an orange post-it note, the word “YET.”
Stay Quiet and Let Them Play
Sometimes as coaches, we need to stand back and see if we have taught them anything (the ducklings.) If you are simply quiet, and let them have a little independence, they’ll prove your worth as a coach.
Volleyball After High School
Many younger players might not know of the myriad ways to get even better at volleyball while also helping grow the game.
Youth Volleyball Tips for Success
After nearly 40 years of spending time coaching 12U, I though it might be of value to share some of the best ways to grow the game, which should start at this 6-12 year-old age group level.
Growing Kids’ Volleyball
This year marks my 40th year of coaching youth volleyball, which I define as 12 and under. The last few years I have seen growth in this area, but far too much of it simply is adults coaching the adult 6 vs 6 game to little kids.