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Volleyball Coaching Wizards Podcast
by Volleyball Coaching Wizards Podcast
Interviews with the world's best volleyball coaches
Episodes
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Podcast Episode 32: Killing the Player Inside
In our interview with Glenn Hoag, he shared a comment from legendary coach Julio Velasco. It was that in order to truly be successful a coach must kill the player inside of him. This episode of the podcast explores that comment and its implications for your mentality as a coach. During the...
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Podcast Episode 31: Observations from the 2016 AVCA Convention
First of all, if you have not already seen our In Memorial post about the passing of Wizard Carl McGown, please check it out. We are making the text of Carl’s interview freely available. Be sure to pass it around to your friends and colleagues. The whole volleyball coaching community should be...
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Podcast Episode 30: The roles of a coach with Jan De Brandt
In his interview, Jan De Brandt shared what he thought of as the three roles of a coach. They are the dictator, the creator, and the observer. In this episode of the podcast, we talk about those different roles and how we take each of them on at different times while working with our teams.…
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Podcast Episode 29: Playing time and expectations with Vital Heynen
In this episode we take a look at playing time and the expectations related to them. Vital Heynen provides a starting point for the discussion. He shares his thoughts on keeping a squad – and management – happy. The conversation carries on from there. Vital Heynen is the current head coach at...
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Podcast Episode 28: Starting a new season with your team
What do you do at the start of a new season? Sometimes you have a lot of returning players and only a few new ones. In other cases you have a lot of turnover, if not a completely new squad. In this episode of the podcast we talk about the things that are important to do at the outset…
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Podcast Episode 27: The first Volleyball Coaching Wizards book
The first ever Volleyball Coaching Wizards book was recently released. In this episode of the the podcast we talk about the book, and about the whole Wizards project that has brought about it’s development. Feedback, questions, comments, etc. are always welcome! The post Podcast Episode 27: The...
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Podcast Episode 26: Player-Coach relationships, with Athanasios Papageorgiou
The relationship between player and coach could be the most important aspect of being a successful coach. In this episode of the podcast we explore that idea. It starts off with two excerpts from highly respected German coach and coach educator Athanasios Papageorgiou. They bring up the idea of...
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Podcast Episode 25: Important Skills for a Coach, with Craig Marshall
What are the most important skills for a coach? Craig Marshall shares his thoughts in this episode. We start our discussion there, and eventually circle back to end there. In between, though, we wander around through a few other subjects. Hopefully, you’ll find them interesting. :-) Australian...
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Podcast Episode 24: 2016 Olympics Review
We’re back! After a busy Summer full of volleyball, work, and book development, we’re back with a new episode of the podcast. The 2016 Olympics have just ended, so we decided to focus this show’s discussion on that tournament. By the way, we had one current Wizard coaching in Rio. Giovanni…
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Podcast Episode 23: The qualities of a good assistant coach with John Corbelli
What are the qualities and characteristics of a good assistant coach? In this episode of the Volleyball Coaching Wizards Podcast we get the views from long-time NCAA Division I assistant John Corbelli and share our own perspectives from both sides. John Corbelli is one of the most respected...
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Podcast Episode 22: Jump Counts with Ryan Mitchell
In baseball, managers use pitch counts to help them make decisions on when they might need to replace their pitchers. Could we do something similar in volleyball? That’s the subject of this episode of the Volleyball Coaching Wizards Podcast. Ryan Mitchell has been a head coach at a three…
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Podcast Episode 21: The psychology of training with Anders Kristiansson
Player psychology is an important consideration for coaches at all levels, and in all sports. How much does it factor into how you put together your practice plans and how your address developmental needs in training with your team? Probably not enough. In this episode of the podcast, Anders...
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Podcast Episode 20: Training A side vs B side with Arnie Ball
Playing 6 v 6 games in practice is something we all do. It’s a fundamental part of preparing our teams to play in competitive matches. The question is how best to make those games as productive as possible, especially when it comes to how we split out the players. In this episode of the podcast…
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Podcast Episode 19: Avoiding being the scapegoat for losing as a coach
This episode of the podcast actually takes a different course than most in that it features a question submitted by a listener. He basically asked the question how as coaches we can avoid having all the responsibility (blame) dumped on us when the team doesn’t perform as expected – whatever that...
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Podcast Episode 18: Coaching the players as they are with Peggy Martin
One of the struggles we can face as coaches is having to work with players who have motivations different than our own. In some cases it’s because they are different types of players than we were. In other cases it’s because they are in the sport for different reasons. In this episode of the...
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Podcast Episode 17: Better results from random training with Tom Tait
The benefits to be had from incorporating more random or distributed (game-like) training in your practices as opposed to the old-school block style of training (basic repetitive skill execution) are often discussed in coaching circles these days. In this episode of the podcast Tom Tait, who…
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Podcast Episode 16: The characteristics of great setters with Bill Neville
When it comes to the history of the game, few can beat Bill Neville’s experience and knowledge. In this episode of the podcast he shares his favorite setter of all time, Katsutoshi Nekoda, and what characteristics made him so good. Nekoda was the setter of the Japanese team which in the 1960s...
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Podcast Episode 15: Coaching your best players with Joel Dearing
It is often the case that we, as coaches (and teachers), either coach to the middle of our squad or focus more attention on the weaker players to try to bring them up to everyone else’s level. From the perspective of maximizing gains, this can make sense. As Wizard Joel Dearing points out…
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Podcast Episode 14: Talking to the team after the match with Tom Turco
Pre- and post-match team talks have long been the subject of interest and attention, both by those involved in them (players and coaches) and those observing from outside. In this episode our conversation focuses on post-match talks, especially following a loss. It begin with the thoughts of…
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Podcast Episode 13: Breaking the game in to parts, with Mike Lingenfelter
In volleyball, as in life, it is often beneficial to break things down in to smaller, more manageable chunks. Mike Lingenfelter talked about this in his Wizards interview, sharing his “High 5” concept of providing his team with five progressive objectives for each set. That idea is the focus of...
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