A “zero talent” meme often circulates in coaching circles. Typically, it doesn’t really reflect the complexity of the issue involved.
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A “zero talent” meme often circulates in coaching circles. Typically, it doesn’t really reflect the complexity of the issue involved.
The last three months were pretty active ones for the England indoor squads, with multiple competitions and training camps.
In which I share my thoughts on a video I came across which features a drill meant to work on spike follow-through.
At certain levels of play there is an incentive to avoid errors to win. This can have negative repercussions, though, so needs to be flipped.
A big challenge in coaching is breaking bad habits. To do so you need to find a way to disrupt the existing pattern so a new one can form.
How do you teach volleyball beginners to serve overhand? Here is what I focus on when working with new servers.
Here is a fairly easy to use volleyball set diagram for defining and describing different types of sets as part of your offensive system.
Deciding on a starting line-up for your volleyball team requires potentially balancing a number of different factors I discuss here.
Scoring your volleyball team's serving and passing is an easy way to use statistics to help make objective training and line-up decisions.
John's 20+ years of volleyball coaching experience includes all three NCAA divisions and Junior College in the US; club and university teams in the UK; a pro team in Sweden; and Juniors coaching and club management. He's been a visiting coach at national team, professional club, and juniors programs in several countries. Currently, he leads the entire national team structure for Volleyball England. John also runs the Coaching Volleyball group on Facebook.
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