Ever play against the “old team”? The team of men or women far older than your team, far slower than your team, that could not jump as high as your team, or hit as hard as your team, but always seemed to beat your team? I thought “Bigger, Faster, Stronger” was the way to victory. Why do the young teams often not win? What is the ideal equilibrium between youth and age, strength and experience? Continue Reading

Courage

1. “Courage is the discovery that you may not win, and trying when you know you can lose.” – Tom Krause

There are no guarantees in life. Even the false security of having a house, a family and money in the bank will pass. The only constant in life is change. The sooner we can accept that, the smoother life will be.

2. “The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” – Sven Goran Eriksson

We all fear failure. It’s a learned habit. It is said that the only fears we are born with are the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises, the rest is learned. There’s nothing wrong with failure. In fact, if you never fail, you will never grow. Continue Reading

Based on the title of this post, you may assume it is about the effect or influence parents have on coaching in junior club volleyball or even college volleyball, but that could be a blog all to itself.  Instead, “The Parent Effect” is an interesting phenomena about the learning curve of athletes.

I enter each club season armed with an arsenal of tools to help better volleyball players as a whole.  The tools include a nutrition guide, workout regimen, academic advice, discipline for their daily Continue Reading

I received the latest AVCA (American Volleyball Coaches Association) publication Volleyball ACE Power Tips and the article happens to be titled, “Make Mental Training Part of Physical Training” with a picture of Lindsey Berg on the cover page. Coincidentally, these are the topics of my last two blogs

Click AVCA PowerTips 3-25-2009 to read the article.