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
Category: Volleyball
Apparently…
…there’s a big game coming up.
Athlete or Player?
At some point in the past, it occurred to me that for a coach to describe his charges as ‘athletes’
Champions League Playoffs and German Cup
Last week was the last knockout round of the Champions League before the Final Four. Because the hosts are already
The Career Highlight
I’ve been on this particular roller coaster ride for nearly 15 years now and have a pretty wide range of
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
‘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
A Bunch Of Videos
The Loch Ness Monster of volleyball actions is the guy who ‘hits over the block and inside the 3m line,
Terry Pettit on Leadership
Every week on Tuesday I log onto iTunes to get the latest episode of The Net Live which I then
“You Haven’t Taught Until They’ve Learned”
I came across this quote the other day that was attributed to the great American basketball coach John Wooden (I’ve
