In a closed forum frequented by volleyball coaches, the issue of coaching and playing in masks as a pandemic introduced measure often gets discussed,...
Category: Coaching
Secrets to a volleyball pass
This 20 minute video promises that an “AVP Coach Teaches Athletes the Secrets to a GREAT Volleyball Pass“ Well, let’s save you a click...
Coaching Juniors in the time of COVID-19
On 15 May 2021, a fiasco erupted at a juniors volleyball tournament in Colorado. One of the coaches, Dixie Lawless, happens to be a...
Fundamental volleyball
Leave a bunch of naive kids with a volleyball and a court, and a game will emerge. Methods will be different – usually they’ll...
Being Fair
The events of 6 January 2021 at the US Capitol in Washington DC, when domestic terrorists laid siege to what should be a routine...
On passing the ball
Coaching volleyball is often predicated on the idea that the different strategic touches on the ball (“passing”, “setting”, “attacking”) are modular skills that can...
Masked Coaching
Masked Coaching Volleyball coaches demonstrate the good practices for the sport, and that should include awareness and respect for the community efforts necessary to...
Beach volleyball players should play in masks
Given the dearth of sports being broadcast, the AVP is drumming up excitement with a series of tournaments streamed to beach volleyball fans hungry...
The conflict of interest in coaching
The true job of a good coach is to make his/her job unnecessary.
Drills, Skills and Goodhart’s Law
Almost every volleyball clinic or training program divides learning into modularized skills. Drills that purport to teach and reinforce specific aspects of the game...