Today, Michelle Piantadosi of Eckerd College and Optimum Volleyball joined Stephen the talk about specific ways athletes can prepare for the upcoming beach season.

Today, Ross Balling, Commissioner of the EVP Tour and founder of EVP Academies, joined Stephen to share his story on how he go into beach volleyball and secondly, how to get ready for the upcoming season.  During the show, we covered three types of players: 20-30 year old looking to take their game to the next level as a professional, a JO high school age player, and a person who is just getting started playing looking to learn the game and play their best.

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Today, Stephen McCarthy of The McCarthy Project talks with Ben Nadeau, editor of CoachUp Nation, on the subject of how to locate high quality information for athletes and some of the pitfalls to watch out for when completing your research.  In today's world of "just google it," online resources have become even more critical and websites like CoachUp Nation play an intergral role in assisting athletes on their journey to achieve their goals. 

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On the show today, we visit the idea of partner selection.  Coach Damian Elder of Mercer University will breakdown his viewpoints or best practices for the proper selection of a partner.

Areas covered include;

Observation, experience, and intuitionThe concept of equitable hard workThe fallacy of "science says"Do players have insight or should they just follow the coach

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Over the last couple weeks, I was looking through our interview archives and found this short interview on the subject of fluoride and performance with David Augenstein of the Journal of Natural Food and Health.  The truths mentioned in this interview are timeless and just as applicable as four years ago.

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About four years ago, I started my quest to find a source of raw milk for the purpose of improving my performance as a human being, my family, and athletes looking for an edge.

On top of that, I found this unpublished interview with David Augenstein of the Journal of Natural Food and Health on the subject of raw milk and its value to the human being.

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Today, Stephen was joined by Coach Tom Black of Georgia University to talk about the whirlwind of activity over the last year from coaching in the Olympics to accepting the Georgia coaching position last month.  Lastly, we talk about the power of change and what it has meant to him over the last year and how it may apply to young athletes.

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Today, Stevenson University Head Volleyball Coach Dave Trumbo joined Stephen to talk about the inaugural season for his beach team and the upcoming beach volleyball season.

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Today, Stephen McCarthy will talk with Head Coach Brian Goodhind of Webber International University on the numerous variables related to the selection of a partner.  We will attempt to cover the entire spectrum of players from high school players who are looking for a local partner to college players and the coach is making the decisions to a pro level when your success and failure depend on your decisions. We cover personality, talent level, friendship, while attempting to answer the question of who is the best partner for you and your long term success?

This week, Trevor Ragan of trainugly.com joined Stephen to talk about "how to train ugly."  Trevor has had a tremendous amount of success breaking down the old, traditional view of training (i.e. control every aspect of the athletes technique, and drill over and over and over the same way, then hopefully eliminate enough mistakes to create success) with concepts like random vs block training and the growth mindset (touch the ball often, learn through mistakes and develop the ability to live in the moment and produce the results.) He shared his journey from talking to the researchers who knew about the concepts of motor learning and then ultimately, attempting  to educate coaches and athletes about a new way, how they can train ugly, have fun and have more success.

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