Loren Anderson is the head coach at Rise Volleyball (@risevolleyball www.risevolleyball.net).

In this enthralling conversation Loren and I discuss our respective coaching journeys and share some of the challenges and joys of working in a non linear way with young people.

In the episode we discuss:

- Why coaches should be like gardeners and not like carpenters
- A better use for timeouts
- Why matches should be time off for the coach
- Why kids who don't fit the mental model a coach has of the right kind of players with the right techniques usually get punished through less game time.
- Why we want players that can solve problems not players that can repeat movements

I really enjoyed the conversation and I hope you do too!

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