John Kessel: Never Be a Child’s Last Coach
There are many ways to define success for a volleyball coach.
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The Tournament Cooler
Having a tried-and-true nutrition plan ensures that the energy needed to achieve peak performance is there.
Injury Prevention Through Reading
Volleyball is a unique sport in that it’s both cyclic and acyclic in nature. Skills such as digging are totally random movements (acyclic). These two types of movements offer unique challenges in the prevention of injury to the volleyball player.
John Kessel: A Culture of Building
Understand the powerful importance of creating a healthy culture in a program.
The Case Against Accountability
U.S. Men’s National Team Head Coach John Speraw is wary of the term accountability. From his perspective it’s all too often misinterpreted in a way that does more harm than good.
How To Build a Beach Court
Beach volleyball competitions can be held on a natural beach so long as the beach is level and the sand is at least nine inches deep and free from rocks, gravel and other hazardous objects.
The Value of Chaos and Failure
Then and now, creating randomness in the learning process, and its imperfections, creates both better retention and creative play at any level.
Beat the heat: Six pro beach volleyball players give their tips
Hydration starts before you head out into the sun and continues after
It’s not About Right or Wrong; It’s About Efficiency in Learning
It’s not about wrong or right, but about what is more effective. It’s not criticism when science guides us to more effective ways to learn, it is information, which sadly many traditional coaches chose to ignore. As the great William Penn said, “Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
Playing the REAL Game
If there was one thing I would ask clubs and schools to change, it is to play far less 6 v 6 at younger ages, if any at all, where all but one of the kids stands around and watches the ball. For ALL ages, play much more 1v1/2v0/1v1+1/2v2, and reserve 6 v 6 for older players. It really is that simple.