
Teaching or facilitating?
I tend to think of myself from a coaching perspective as more of a facilitator in the player development process rather than a teacher.

I tend to think of myself from a coaching perspective as more of a facilitator in the player development process rather than a teacher.

This is an entry in my volleyball coaching log for 2015-16. Here’s how things went over the third week of pre-season: Monday Had 11 players…

The second week really started the process of develop a team style of play. It ended with the squad spending a day doing team-building exercises.

The focus of the first week of training was mainly on getting the players integrated and communicating, and laying the foundation for moving ahead.

Parkinson's Law says work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. That definitely applies to planning a volleyball practice.

The house the club has arranged for me in Svedala has served to highlight my need to improve my general fitness, and I'm going to…

This training session uses cooperative games to warm-up, then moves to small-sided competitive games. The main idea is to get lots of game-like touches.

A volleyball coach recently asked for some ideas on avoiding their players becoming dependent on them for feedback, to which I provide some thoughts.

Monday I finally start with my new team at Svedala! My main priority the first week is to see where everyone is at and players…

An article speaks to the preferred qualities of a good setter - both mental and physical. I add some comments of my own.
