Question everything

Last week when I was interviewing Mark Lebedew for the Volleyball Coaching Wizards project I asked him what his advice would be for relatively new coaches. Mark is an FIVB coaching instructor, so he’s done his fair share of working with developing volleyball coaches. His response was, “Question everything.” That includes all the stuff he said himself in the interview. 🙂

When Mark said that, I immediately thought of Mike Hebert’s book Thinking Volleyball. Mike too offers the advice that coaches should always be ready to challenge what they are seeing or hearing from an educational perspective as it relates to their own situation, even when it comes from the so-called experts.

You won’t be getting any arguments from me!

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John Forman

John is a volleyball coach, performance director, and coach educator with 20+ years of experience across the NCAA (all three divisions plus junior college), university and club volleyball in the UK, professional coaching in Sweden, and juniors clubs. He has also served as a visiting coach with national team, professional club, and juniors programs in multiple countries.

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