Always Learning
This end of the year blog is where I share what/where I have learned. It is mostly books, but also some video clips I found worth watching. I love that Michelangelo at age 87 said “I am still learning.”
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Variance and Risk Management in Volleyball
There is something that all coaches need to make part of their training at any level. It is breaking tradition to manage and be comfortable with the risks of variance as found in volleyball. Two-time Olympic medal winning coach Hugh McCutcheon termed it risk management.
Lesson Plans for 4 and 6-Person
A three, six, eight or 12-week lesson plan can be put together by picking and choosing from the options presented herein.
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.
Standing on Others Shoulders
I love to read. Enter my USA Volleyball office, or my little home built back in 1899 and you might be taken aback by how many books are sitting on so many shelves.
Irrelevant Training
This short blog is a response to a coach who felt that worrying that all drills are gamelike was irrelevant. It is not irrelevant, nor anal. It is principle driven.
Limit Your Wall Drills
“Where is volleyball played?” is a question to ask your players or other coaches if you want to start an interesting discussion. “What is the most important skill in volleyball?” is the second question I ask to prompt some serious conversation.
Top 10 Reasons for a Club to do Sitting Volleyball Training
I am not an expert at the sport of sitting volleyball. The experts are Bill Hamiter, Mike Hulett and Elliot Blake, and the Paralympians who compete in it. However, I have spent over 20 years in growing the disabled game together.
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.
3000 Years of Life and Games
I returned this week to a special place of ancestors, a village I first was lucky to visit a decade ago, the Makah Nation.