Leave a bunch of naive kids with a volleyball and a court, and a game will emerge. Methods will be different – usually they’ll...
Tagged: coaching
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...
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...
The simplest training plan
Going through different learning theories, the simplest training plan for beach volleyball is having experienced athletes play with a relative novice against a range...
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...
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)...
Earned or Found
I was having this discussion once about buying chicken. My friend was of the opinion that there are just superior sources of birds, and...
Improving Quads 2: Reduce seams
Part of the Improving Quads series. The convention of most teams in beach quads format is the “diamond” formation when receiving serve – the...
In praise of being quiet
“I need to talk more.” “Talk!” “We need to talk.” Verbal loquaciousness is almost universally valued on the beach volleyball court. Coaches punish juniors...