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?
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, or…
Specialization is for Insects
A long talk last week with a writer from Volleyball Magazine, got me contemplating some principles that are important on the topic of “specialization.”
The Evolution of Pepper
This second in a series of sharing the evolution of popular drills – into grills or even games, takes on perhaps the most hallowed of traditions… “pepper.
STOP Teaching Hitting
Ah yes, we are back with another request – in this case to train gamelike and create hitters with volleyball IQ, and not create one dimensional players who are good at spiking into the net
Learning vs. Teaching
The two most important skills in our sport are reading (as in anticipation, not hunkering down with a great book, though that skill is VERY important in life) and learning.
LIMIT Your Coaching…
As I have found, some of the coaches most needing to read the science and ideas in this blog are simply not reading the ideas in their entirety.
Change
I have written more than once about focusing on what you can control. This choice is important not only in sport, but in life itself.
Mikey Makes the Serve
I often talk about variance and bell curves in coaching and player courses, as being aware of this fact of life, including in sports, is important.
Train Ugly
About a decade ago my kids and I went up to Lander, Wyoming to run a high school volleyball camp at the base of the Wind River Range, and home of the famous “cheesewheel” (a batter fried cheeseburger) and NOLS, the National Outdoor Leadership School.