Kind of a fun post…hope you get it! Here it is…
The other day in Position Advancment class we were talking about “hearing, listenting and acting on instruction.
I told the class acting on instruction is not like when your mother asks you to take out the garbage. Coach, what in the world are you talking about? Another analogy! [...]
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We left practice last evening telling the athletes to take home 4 very important words…
We Are Getting Better!
Looking forward to the next great evolution!
Peace~
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Sorry that I missed last week’s post Thursday evening practice post. No one wants to hear excuses so I won’t offer any.
We started a new 6 week training cycle last Thursday evening.
Continued on Sunday.
I am trying to get my arms around several things we need to accomplish:
1. Gymnasium preparation has to be completed before start [...]
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Sorry to all for missing my journal entry on Thursday after Wednesday’s practice. Truth be told, I was awol and spent the day on a variety of items…none of which was writing about what happened in practice.
We did go over coach and player competition management protocol.
Yes, I remember going over that and laying out the ground [...]
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It felt like there was a lot going on this past Sunday. And there was.
We started with volleyball control skills…I am very happy with how the majority of players have modified their volley skill…their mechanics have improved and there response to passing a 1st phase volleyball is fairly automatic.
There are two groups of players who [...]
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With only 2 hours to practice and several athletes missing for different reasons, the pace and scope of training is modified.
Plus the fact that we are ending the first phase of our developmental cycle…that is preparation for our first tournament…and I wanted the coaches to have an appropriate amount to review rotations, serve reception formations and primary attack [...]
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If you do what you do, you get what you get!
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One of my mentor coaches, the great Vic Lindal, who is a leader in end point visualization training, made a comment to me one time that when starting training for a team or teams, one needs to show the coaches and players the serve to transition and serve reception to transition systems.
I said, sure, uh huh and went on my [...]
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All the schools were closed yesterday because of snow but things cleared up and we decided to have practice.
We told our athletes to come only if it was safe and we had almost the entire crew.
Split up into specialized groups initially:
Setters
Liberos and specialists
Middle blockers.
Ace attackers and universals
And did some training in those groups.
Moved into our [...]
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“All men make mistakes but only wise men learn from their mistakes”.
Winston Churchill
Today I consider myself a wiser man because I made several major mistakes yesterday during a very important practice session. And I have learned from them…
Dealing with another facility issue, I let the situation distract me and I was not at my best.
I [...]
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