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Your path to the podium begins with learning. Whether you are a coach, athlete, parent, official or club director, learning is a continual process. We’ve collected articles from some of the top volleyball names to help you be your best.
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Three clubs out of Kansas City operate with most of their fees under $1,000, sometimes well under. Here's how clubs can lower costs while still providing an excellent athlete experience.
This is not a comprehensive collection, but serves as food for thought for naming a GAME better. Rather than a “drill.”
Skill performance will ebb and flow, with 50 percent of the time being spent in below average performance for each player. Practice is for RAISING each player’s personal average.
It is important for you to maintain a high level of fitness in order to compete at your physical capability. Being in shape, like getting proper nutrition, is one of the fundamental skills that sport can help incorporate into your like now that should never stop.
The article summarizes what kids should be learning from fun on the court or field, in practices and games. Some thoughts are volleyball specific, but the majority relate to all sports.
The YMCA of the USA updated this skills contest with USA Volleyball staff help for use during their volleyball centennial celebrations.
his week my son Cody is playing in his first ever college matches for Princeton.
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...
Serving is a skill that young players need to spend more time practicing
From Karch Kiraly's Volleyblog, addressing important learning principles.
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.
From Karch Kiraly's blog, five simple exercises for functional strength
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.
The concept of 7-speeds is based on the work of soccer researcher and author Jurgen Weineck.
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.
I spent the last four nights in Hartford, Connecticut. Snowfall of a greater amount in the storm than any other time in recorded history.
A personal list of movies, in no particular order, that might be great for team bonding and inspiration.
OK coach, hopefully this title has made you click through to this blog to see what the heck I could be thinking here.
Originally published in 2009 About the Author: Rick Swan is the head women’s volleyball coach at Colorado College. He is a CAP Level II coach in USA Volleyball’s Coach Education Program. Game-like training is a simple idea. It is the notion that athletes will learn to play the game of volleyball better by practicing the...
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.
