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Episode 79: Setter vision, Concussions, and Whole Child Sports

Our skill segment focuses on ideas surrounding setter vision. How important is setter vision? When should we start training vision for young players? How can you get athletes to use their vision to impact the game? We discuss all of this and more on the podcast!

Our scenario segment deals with concussions, how avoiding concussions are of critical importance in the health of young people, what coaches and players do to help avoid them, and how they are disrupting the sport more now than ever.

For our resource segment we share information about Whole Child Sports, whose mission  is to raise awareness about the many problems in youth sports today and provide advice and solutions for sports parents and youth coaches.

Skill of the Week: Setter vision and its importance

Scenario of the Week: How to train and play smarter and avoid concussions

The Art of Coaching Volleyball videos that we used this week focused on setter vision:

⁠https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/setting-vision-work/ Ryan Theis from Marquette University shows some great setting vision drills

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/setting-drill-with-debbie-brown/ Debbie Brown, former National Team setter, demonstrates an awesome drill for working with setters' vision

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/how-important-is-peripheral-vision-for-volleyball-players/ Celine Drewnick discusses the importance of peripheral vision

The Resource of the Week is Whole Child Sports, which can be found here: ⁠https://www.wholechildsports.com/

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For this week's episode we welcome Dave Rubio, coach for Athletes Unlimited and long-time University of Arizona coach. He discusses how and what to teach the newest beginners about how to pass.

Our scenario segment focuses on ideas for how to help your lowest level teams. Everyone has a beginner group that struggles to return the ball, serve, and organize their personnel. this segment gives ideas for how to help that team have fun and learn the game.

For our resource segment we share info about Athletes Unlimited, an awesome new pro league in the United States that is delivering competition at the highest level.

Skill of the Week: Teaching passing for the newest beginners

Scenario of the Week: How to work with your least experienced group

The Art of Coaching Volleyball videos that we used this week focused on Dave Rubio and his teaching:

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/learn-passing-basics-with-dave-rubio/ Dave Rubio discusses how to teach the fundamentals of passing

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/dave-rubio-on-warming-up/⁠ Dave Rubio talks about warming up

⁠https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/reading-a-part-of-every-skill/⁠ Dave Rubio discusses a variety of out of system situations

The Resource of the Week is Athletes Unlimited, and it can be found here: https://auprosports.com/volleyball/?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwp8OpBhAFEiwAG7NaEkjgTatZckGnSvW_4H2956Aw4gZgc0E1Pehfut7O-sdKL1Vx6ddrKxoCGX4QAvD_BwE

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This week's skill is how to train your players' vision, with a special focus on serve receive.

Our scenario segment focuses on when a team has beaten you before, but you need to beat them now.

For our resource segment we share a website that is full of insights in the form of quotes from legendary athletes, coaches, and sports commentators.

Skill of the Week: Player vision, especially in serve receive, and what your players can do to get better at arriving early to where they will meet the ball

Scenario of the Week: When a team has beaten you before and you need to beat them now. Ideas, tips, and ways of thinking about this common scenario.

The Art of Coaching Volleyball videos that we used this week focused on vision, especially in serve receive:

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/defense-drill-for-training-vision/ Mike Sealy high or low drill for noticing what matters

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/what-makes-morgan-hentz-dominant/ Jim Stone analyzes what organ Hentz is looking at and why she is so good

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/reading-a-part-of-every-skill/ John Dunning reading and serve receive

The Resource of the Week is The 100 Best Sports Quotes of All Time, and it can be found here: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/910238-the-100-best-sports-quotes-of-all-time

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This week's skill is how to train your players to deal with the most difficult calls that refs have to make so that your team can win more matches. There are many situations where knowing the rules of volleyball can either lead a point for your team, or a point for the other team. Davis and Tod discuss how to get your players to recognize the challenge of deciding these calls and how to handle the close calls, both before, during, and after the close decision. Managing the close plays well can help your team win more points and matches.

Our scenario segment focuses on match coaching and how to become in this important aspect of the game. Tod has an awesome list of what to do to become a better match coach. The list begins with "be competitive but not combative" and continues on with Tod's wisdom making a veritable treasure trove of information for how to manage matches. This talk is valuable for experienced coaches, too.

For our resource segment we share a fascinating podcast that talks to the world's best coaches and gleans important, powerful insights that anyone can use in any sport. The Great Coaches Podcast is a wealth of information from the top of the top coaches in their respective sports. Many of their talking points resonate not only in the sports world, but in leadership and in life. On the Psychology of Successful Groups, with Samantha Rockey, is just one terrific podcast of many that can be found on the site.

Skill of the Week: Teaching players how to use the rulebook to full advantage and how to train to deal with the most difficult 50/50 calls by referees

Scenario of the Week: I want to be a better match coach

The Art of Coaching Volleyball videos that we used this week focused on how to do more winning:

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/skills-winning-losing/ Kyle Mashima from SoloStats discusses the statistical approach to the most important skills involved in winning

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/serve-and-pass-battle/ Mark Rosen, Terry Liskevych, and Kirsten Booth have a cool talk about how to win the serve and pass battle

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/craig-skinner-championship-team/ Craig Skinner discusses how to build a championship team from the beginning to the big win

Resource of the Week: The Great Coaches Podcast, which can be found on nearly everywhere you listen to podcasts and at: https://thegreatcoachespodcast.com/

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This week's skill is how and why to create opportunities in your practice to reinforce systems during serve receive practice. In match play serve receive there are a number of factors at play other than an individual's ability to pass to the target. There is a lot of contextual interference which makes it beneficial to practice with these conditions. Tod disucsses some ways that coaches can add these types of conditions to their passing practice and enhance their live play serve receive performance.

Our scenario segment builds on the idea of creating a balanced offense by focusing on how and why to get the Middle Attacker the ball more. Often middles have the highest hitting percentage on the team but get the fewest sets. This imbalance can limit the overall effectiveness of your team since the opposition will have a good idea where the ball is going. Davis explores how to keep your middles alive and working effectively, and finding ways to score and keep the opposition off balance.

For our resource section we share a book that offers rich ideas that mimic The Ten Commandments, but in regards to being a "winning" teammate. These ideas are well thought out and powerful concepts that, when practiced, can be one of the turning points on a competitive team. Integral concepts like self-sacrifice are explained with both wit and humor. Readers will be sure to get something that they can put into practice right away.

Skill of the Week: Reinforcing skill work during serve receive practice

Scenario of the week: Getting your Middle Attackers the ball more often and in better positions to score

The Art of Coaching Volleyball videos that we used this week focused on getting system work during serve receive practice:

Karch Kiraly’s "In a Row" passing drill

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/karchs-in-a-row-passing-drill/

 Luka Slabe on clarifying the seams in serve receive

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/clarifying-the-seams-on-serve-receive/

Fantastic youth, club, high school, and college coach, currently at Goldenwest Volleyball Club, Andrew Clifton demonstrates how he likes to teach how to divide up the court in serve receive

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/serve-receive-dividing-the-court/

Resource of the Week

The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates by Sean Glaze can be found here: https://greatresultsteambuilding.net/winning-teammates/

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This week's skill is how and why to create a safer environment in your gym. This segment provides a wide range of ideas about little things that coaches can do to promote their athletes' health and prevent some of the most common injuries. Our hope is to promote some discussion about what can be done to keep our athletes playing their best volleyball more.

Our scenario segment is about when your team needs to do team bonding but you don't want to do a ropes course. By that, we mean that we want a more generic binding scenario that encourages continual growth and genuine interest in one another. There is nothing wrong with doing a ropes course, but Tod and Davis favor a more consistent process instead of a one off experience. Tod explains some ways to get this to happen generically.

For our resource section we share an interesting research article that discusses how often and what types of injuries that high school volleyball players experience. This experiment looked at over 2000 high school girls' volleyball players and found that ankle and knee injuries were the most common types of injuries with finger and wrist being the next most common. There are some other great insights that coaches can get from reading this informative article.

Skill of the Week: Practicing safely

Scenario of the week: When your team needs to do team bonding but you don't want to do a ropes course

The Art of Coaching Volleyball videos that we used this week focused on injury prevention:

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/attack-approach-landing-accordion-it/ John Dunning on the spike approach landing and how to do it safely

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/attacking-mechanics-landing-safely-on-two-feet/ Laurie Eisler on how to land safely on two feet

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/exercise-physiologist-don-moxley-on-acl-injury-prevention/ Don Moxley on the very important concept of ACL Injury Prevention

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/injury-prevention-whats-important-after-40-years-of-coaching/ The legendary John Dunning's super informative discussion "What’s Important After 40 Years of Coaching"

https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/wellness-blog-anxiety/ A blog called Managing Your Anxiety Before Your Anxiety Manages You by Dr. William Parham contains great concepts for dealing with anxiety

Resource of the Week

https://meridian.allenpress.com/jat/article/58/2/177/446976/Incidence-and-Risk-Factors-for-Injuries-in-Girls from the Journal of Athletic Training

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This week's skill is how and why to use elastic in your gym to enhance training. In hopes of training in an Ecological Dynamics methodology, using elastic can help athletes be free to engage their own learning without being restricted by thinking about their body parts, which slows down processing and learning. They can use external cues to guide their improvement with simple adjustments to the environment that help them to focus on the intention of the action. Elastic is one way to help this process to happen.

Our scenario segment is about when your team cannot stop an opposing hitter. We cover a lot of ways to win matches where you cannot find a way to get points when their best hitter is attacking. Some of these ideas that we cover include: minimizing the number of opportunities that the hitter gets in "scoring position", "pulling" the attacker out of her ideal approach spot, and simply giving up trying to stop her and focusing on stopping the other hitters. Coaches will surely get a nugget or two that will help them to get ideas for their own teams, when they have to deal with bigger hitters.

For our resource section we share an amazing wealth of information that can found on Youtube: Mick Haley's discussion on statistics that matter, via Front Range Volleyball Club and Jim Stone. This talk is so rich in formation and it only has around 700 watches on Youtube! You can be one of the only people who has heard this incredibly impactful video that touches on: winning rally scoring matches, the most important stats to keep, how to perceive digs and their usefulness and much more. Coaches will surely think differently after watching this information-rich video!

Skill of the Week: Using elastic in your gym to enhance learning

Scenario of the week: When your team cannot stop an opposing attacker and what to do

This week's Art of Coaching Volleyball videos focused on why and how to use elastic in your practice:

This video by Mark Rosen shows how he uses elastic to teach players to hit high above the net: https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/over-the-elastic-attacking-drill/

This video from Dan Meske from Louisville shows how to use elastic to teach blockers how to cut off angles: ⁠https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/elastic-blocking-drill/

Tod Mattox discusses how to get your athletes to have amore ideal hand path as they block over the net: ⁠https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/ideal-hand-path-when-blocking/

The Resource of the Week, Mick Haley Talks Volleyball on Youtube, by Mick Haley and presented by Front Range Volleyball Club and Jim Stone, can be found here: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fxhtsSnK1I

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This week's first segment is Davis' Deserted Island Drill, The Listening Game. Davis explains why he runs some form of this game nearly every practice. Also, we discuss variations that coaches can take and run right away. This game follows the Ecological Dynamics line of thinking about training and uses constraints to help form adaptable and intelligent teams.

For our scenario segment we discuss how to train and compete when your team starts strong, but fades in the middle of the match. This all to familiar situation can mean losses for your team if you don't respond quickly. In this episode we talk about how to think about this issue and plan your practices accordingly. Hint: Don't just play games to 25. Mix it up!

Skill of the Week: Deserted Island Drill - The Listening Game

Scenario of the week: When your team starts strong and fades in the middle of the match

The Resource of the Week is the work of Brad Stulberg, which can be found here: https://www.bradstulberg.com/

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This week's first segment is Tod's Deserted Island Drill, Front Row 4s. We discuss how to make the most out of this drill and why Tod loves this drill and has added it to his menu of drills. So many good things can come from this drill!

For our scenario segment we get a little personal. This week's scenario is about when lack confidence as a coach. There are times when as a coach we know we are not at our best. This can affect your confidence, but there are ways to move forward. Davis and Tod cover what to do in those times and how to regain your best coaching self.

Skill of the Week: Deserted Island Drill - Front Row 4s

Scenario of the week: When you don't feel confident in your coaching

The Resource of the Week, The Volleyball Institute, can be found here: https://thevolleyballinstitute.com/

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This week's skill is how and why to develop a more balanced offense. Many teams fall into over-setting their best hitters and can miss out on opportunities to increase their team hitting efficiency. In this episode we discuss how to create more strong scoring attempts merely by getting offense from all parts of the net.

Our scenario segment is about when two are sharing a court and how to make the most out of that time for everyone. These ideas are really cool and are sure to help when your team when you share a court.

For our resource section we honor the life and legacy of Byron Shewman, a leader in the volleyball community, and an extremely generous person. Shewman was an outspoken advocate for volleyball and founded The Starlings Volleyball Program, a community-based club system, that was able to reach groups of people that typically would not have much access to volleyball. He was also an extremely talented player, and played on the Olympic team, and later on the beach. Beach Volleyball, by Shewman and Karch Kiraly is a thorough look at how to become a high level beach volleyball player.

Skill of the Week: How and why to create and implement a more balanced offense

Scenario of the week: When two teams are practicing on the same court and how to make the most of your team

This week's Art of Coaching Volleyball videos focused on why and how to create a balanced offense:

This video by Jim Stone discusses team attacking and using a variety attack positions across the net: https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/jim-stone-sample-offense-with-multiple-attack-points/

This video from the AOC Vancouver Hitting Clinic explores running offense in gaps and overloading the block: https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/running-an-offense-finding-gaps-overloading-blockers/

Tod Mattox discusses how to get offense from your middle blockers when the pass is in the middle of the court: https://www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com/running-the-middle-from-center-court-with-a-block/⁠ 

The Resource of the Week, Beach Volleyball, by Byron Shewman and Karch Kiraly, can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Byron-Shewman/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AByron+Shewman