Nebraska’s Justine Wong-Orantes made a name for herself on the beach in California. Who says that playing beach makes you undisciplined and lack timing needed to play indoor. “At 12, Wong-Orantes and a teenage teammate won a prestigious California tournament, making her the youngest girl …
Today, Stevenson University Head Indoor and Beach Volleyball Coach Dave Trumbo joined Stephen to talk about the inaugural season for his beach team and great ways a student-athlete can enjoy the sport of beach. Some of the areas covered include: The first practice in Maryland …
By John Kessel, USA Volleyball, Director of Sport Development
This is also how the USA teams became the best beach teams in the world for decades – no coaching, just playing and mentoring.
It is not my intent to get rid of coaches. It is my intent to help us all understand that by controlling things, drilling them, telling them what to do (extrinsic learning is the worst retained), using spike machines or blocking paddles and the whole gamut of non-reality based “training devices” we are simply slowing down the players learning. We are, in the words of a great motor learning scientist, the late Dr. Richard Schmidt, “Practicing for practice and not for performance.”
Our role is to put up the net, get out the balls and provided a SAFE environment wherein to learn; physically and emotionally. Coaches who scream and yell at players are failing to teach. For the most part they are about themselves and not about the player’s development. Coaches who physically punish for failure or loss are doing the same; not providing the optimum learning environment to promote synaptogenesis, and seek more angiogenesis. These last two long words are a test to see if you listened to Dr Bain’s webinar by now, as you would know the importance of the differences between the two. The learning comes when coaches and parents step back, and only when needed, guide the discovery of what they know, while letting the learner discover “the answers” on their own or with their peers. If a player can show you, without a ball, the key parts of each technique in your sport, then they KNOW the technique. Doing it at the right place and time, THAT comes from the reality of each sport, and in general is as random as all get out. We are here to guide the process, and make it as effective as we can through how we teach. For entire article, view
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 …
This 2017 National Schedule features several new stops that were not on the last year’s schedule – including: Lake George, NY., Chicago, IL & Dauphin Island, AL. EVP Tour is extremely excited to announce the 2017 National Beach Volleyball Schedule. Next year’s national schedule will …
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.
For the complete interview, visit here.
Today on the show, Stephen McCarthy discussed the use and role of oxygen supplementation for young athletes, as well as, elite athletes. LiveO2’s own Tom Butler joined the show to talk about the following ares related to his experiences in the world of oxygen. History …
Today, Stephen McCarthy will talk with Head Coach Russell Brock of the LSU Tigers beach volleyball program about some of his ideas for players who do not live in hot bed locations to get noticed and eventually, play college beach volleyball. Coach about his personal …
Today, Stephen McCarthy will talk with Head Coach Russell Brock of the LSU Tigers beach volleyball progam about some of his go to strategies for elite performance on game day.
Areas covered include:
1, Ideas for players who do not live in hot bed locations to get noticed and eventually, play college beach volleyball
2. Game day strategies and the variables associated with high level play
3. The art of making adjustments to what is happening on game day.
For the complete interview, visit here.
Russel Brock Bio:
Russell Brock was selected to lead LSU’s sand volleyball program on December 4, 2013 by vice chancellor and director of athletics Joe Alleva.
Brock has spent the last eight seasons with the Rice University indoor program. He served as a volunteer coach from 2006-08 before being promoted to assistant coach from 2009-13. During his tenure, the Owls racked up 141 wins which included two NCAA Tournament trips and school’s first-ever Conference USA championship in 2009.
Before joining the Rice program, Brock spent 11 years at Baytown Christian Academy in Texas. He acted as the school’s athletics director, operations manager and coached the girls volleyball, boys soccer and boys basketball teams. Under his leadership, the volleyball squad captured four Texas Association of Private and Parochial Schools state titles.
Brock was standout at the University of Southern California where he amassed 956 digs en route to the program’s all-time record, a mark he held for 10 seasons. He also set a NCAA mark with 45 matches with 10-plus digs. Brock graduated in 1996 with a B.S. in exercise science. For complete bio, click here
Coach Wayne Holly of Tulane University and Stephen McCarthy of The McCarthy Project discuss the topic of scouting, its importance to some athletes and not so much for others. In today’s world of sport, many hours are spent on scouting the competition, but how many …