Best learning platform for new volleyball coaches – GMS, AOC, or CAP?
What's the best educational program for a newer volleyball coaching? GMS? AOC? CAP? I share my thoughts based on my experience with each of them.
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Volleyball Coaching Education
Understanding the limits of our observations
We all have limitations in how we perceive and remember things. This is something important to keep in mind when we think about what's happening.
Report from Gold Medal Squared coaching clinic
Here is a report of what I saw and heard when we hosted a Gold Medal Squared coaching clinic for the staff at Charleston Academy.
Don’t just cite the research, actually read and understand it!
A comment about some research into serve reception seems to provide an example of a failure to actually read the research and/or to understand the results.
An Englishman at the AVCA Spring Conference
A coaching friend of mine from England attended the 2018 AVCA Spring Conference. It was his first time at an AVCA event. Here's his report.
Improving coaching education
Coaching education tends to suffer from too much focus on things that play a minor part in coaching and not enough of the stuff that we think really matters.
If you think coaching is easy, you’re probably doing it wrong
Coaching is not something you just start doing, contrary to what many players seem to think. It's a challenge requiring constant education and development.
Report: 2017 USA Volleyball High Performance Coaches Clinic
I attended the 2017 USA Volleyball High Performance Coaches Clinic for the second time. Here's an overview of what went on.
USA Volleyball CAP III
I took part in the 2017 USA Volleyball Coaches Accreditation Program (CAP) Level III course. Here is how it was structured and my thoughts.