Podcast 6 – Medaille College staff discussion

In this episode of the podcast you'll get to meet my two main assistant coaches at Medaille as we talk about starting team practices.

Looking more closely at practice length

Understanding how fatigue impacts on learning can help coaches create better, more effective practices, leading to greater development.

What is a good term to describe 6 v 6 type exercises where you're not competing, but instead are working on team elements?

A mistake I often see coaches make is providing players with instructions for a drill or game, then providing feedback on everything but.

Here's a scenario a coach presented where you need to come up with a way to do setter training on a half court with some constraints.

There are different types of skills in volleyball - precise vs. improvisational. Training them each requires a different approach.

It's not enough to just try harder - as either a player or a coach. It takes deliberate practice to improve. How can you put that concept to work?

There are some significant drawbacks to playing games - especially scored ones. With some thought, though, we can work around them to our benefit.

Above and beyond all our coaching priorities we must also account for the priorities of the players when planning and running our sessions.

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