I hear a number of common phrases during volleyball play which I discourage athletes from using. I watched as the ball looped over his...
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Proactive Blocking
Blocking is a crucial strategy and technique in volleyball. The homographic confusion often talks about the technique solely, about the jump and penetration, but it’s...
April 15, 2019
Rehabilitation is not Prevention
I decided to revisit an old video done by the McKibbin Brothers called “Knee Pain Explained and How to fix it“. In this video,...
April 13, 2019
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Understanding Competence
Coaches often refer to athletes as being beginners or novices, as well as those who are “advanced” or “elite”. In racing sports like track...
April 11, 2019
The Moral Hazards
The drug Naloxone revolutionized treatment of opioid drug overdoses, but had an unexpected sociological consequence: it’s availability actually led to an increase in drug...
April 4, 2019
Improving Quads 3: Distributed Setting
Part of the Improving Quads series. As noted in the previous article, most beach quads teams adopt the “diamond” formation for both serve receive...
April 2, 2019
Role Model
The common refrain is that Southern California is the mecca for beach volleyball. Perennially good weather and nearly unlimited availability of courts, people have...
February 21, 2019
Visualizing NCAA GPA data
On 5 Sept 2018, the NCAA Research team tweeted out this chart : It reports the average core high school grade point averages (GPA)...
September 6, 2018
Homographic terms
Many terms in athletic coaching are poorly defined yet form the basis of disagreements. For example, the word athletic is really not quantifiable, and...
August 21, 2018
Volleyball and Newton
I ignited a fierce debate a few months back by simply asking: “the higher you jump, the more force you land with, right? (Yes,...
August 6, 2018