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Volleyball Coach Development
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Straw-manning “The game teaches the game”

Can we please make reasonable arguments with regards to training in a game context - or any other approach - rather using strawman fallacies?

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Training for pressure situations

Coaches understand the need for our players to train for pressure situations. He's something to help you work on that.

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Continuing the “what works” conversation

There was an interesting comment on the Coaches doing "what works" post. Long-time reader Kelly said the following: I’ve read and listened to Daniel Coyle’s ‘The Little Book of Talent’, where

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Do they really need training to start playing?

Do beginning volleyball players really need to develop fundamental skills before they can start playing? Evidence would suggest not.

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Research into training hitters to attack vs. a block

A research paper looks at two methods of training hitters to attack vs. three different types of block set-ups with interesting findings.

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1500 Volleyball Coaching Blog Posts and Counting!

This no longer so little volleyball coaching blog has just hit the 1500 posts mark. Next milestone in sight is 2.5 million page views.

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An unfortunate example of “what works”

After writing the "what works" post I came across an article with just the kind of story that leads folks down the wrong path.

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Coaches doing “what works”

Too often coaches shown a better way to coach react with some version of "It works", which is a bad response on multiple levels.

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Book Review – The Tough Stuff by Cody Royle

The Tough Stuff, by Cody Royle, does have some coach-team interaction elements, but largely focuses on the coach as an individual.

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