‘To Win You Need To Put In Your Soul’
I’ve recently seen some quotes attributed to Russian coaching great, Vyacheslav Platonov. There’s something here for everyone. ‘Working in the
Category: Coaching
A Winning Mentality
The owner of the http://www.volleyball.it website, Luca Muzzioli, regularly uses his position to write editorials on certain aspects of the
Motivation and Demotivation
More on DEMOTIVATION is here. In my quest to buy every volleyball ever just in case, I recently bought the
Why I Don’t Teach ‘Calling’ – Part 2
The original post and comments (as well as the German version) brought up a lot of interesting points and, not
Why I Don’t Teach ‘Calling’
I hate ‘calling’. I almost never tell my teams to call. In my opinion, calling is one of the biggest
Athlete or Player?
At some point in the past, it occurred to me that for a coach to describe his charges as ‘athletes’
Shifting Paradigms: Practice and Specificity of Conditioning
Continuing the topic of Shifting Paradigms, and returning to my pet subject, Practice, I recently read a blog post (and
Paradigm Shifting, Kevin Smith and John Wooden
I’m a Kevin Smith fan. This of course has nothing specifically to do with volleyball, or even sport, other than
‘Coaching Ideas’ – Drills As A Form Of Communication
I wrote a post referring to a John Kessel blog post that referred to a seminar where a point was
Chinese Whispers and John Kessel
Every eight year old knows that even the simplest concepts can be distorted beyond all reasonable comprehension through repetition (and
At Home On The Court 