Avoiding player demotivation
Coaches give a lot of thought to player motivation, but they likely don't give nearly enough to avoiding demotivation.
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Volleyball Coaching
The satisfied team
A coach is frustrated that his team doesn't have the kind of drive to win and to get better he does for them.
Stats linked to team performance
What stats do a good job of linking well to team performance? A post from another blog presents some things worth looking at.
Training better, quicker decision-making
A coach wants to know how to promote better and faster decision-making in matches. That's actually pretty easily done.
Practice Plan: 12 players, game-oriented
Here is a practice I ran with a college team that shifted a recent mainly technical focus to a mainly game competition one.
Encouraging youngsters to attack
A coach has an issue with a young team setting third balls instead of attacking them. Here's how I would approach that.
Non-volleyball consequences
A challenge for coaches is how to deal with rules infractions and stuff like that which aren't about volleyball. He's a solution I use.
Youth teams trying to play like Olympic teams
Why do we see youth teams trying to play the same way as top level teams? It's structure and coaching, and above all management issues.
An example of an important concept
Here's a video that provides and example of an important concept in how we teach and provide feedback to our players.