The Parent Pod

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Coaching in reality, When my team gets down they stay down, and Anti-Fragile

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The 46 Challenge Drill, The Tether Method for out of system play, and The Captain Class

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Training responding in your athletes, My team doesn't move their feet and balls are dropping, and The Out of Rotation Podcast

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Feedback 101: Finding Your Coaching Voice, Before club tryouts, and How To Change

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Bridging the gap between practice and competition performance, My team is wildly inconsistent, and The Jon Gordon Podcast

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Beth Van Fleet on blocking, How Georgia State Beach selects partners, and Jeff Jansen's workbooks

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Itsy-bitsy Ideas for improvement, A no-nonsense way of standing out at tryouts, and Jordan Larson shows her character in Volleyball Magazine

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Early Season Priorities, The Olympics part 3, and Finding Mastery

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Talking less, The Olympics part 2, and Dan Meske on Instagram

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Sean Thomas on malleability in passing, what to check out from The Olympics, and HowStuffWorks.com

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Making Camp Great, Evaluating Your Practice Plan, and John Kessel USA Volleyball 6 on 6 Games

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Day 1 Practice Plan, Help Your Athletes Move Up a Team, and Top Dog

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Don't Train to Play (Play to Win), Tod's Book of Lists, and Soccer IQ

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Lessons from Tod's 11s, Starting with a New Program, and Avignon

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This or That

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10 Skills To Have in Your Teaching "Bag", Ending the Season on a High Note, and Bites of Beach on Instagram

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The Balltime Team joins The VolleyPod to discuss their product and progress

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Making the end of the season fun and effective, Do's and Don'ts for when players miss practice, and AOC's Resources section

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Get more kills from smaller teams, My players' parents are habitually negative, and VNL

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Handcuffed Speedball Doubles, Starting a brand new volleyball program for kids, and The Playmaker's Advantage

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Guest Coach Eduardo Fiallos from University of Colorado

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Freeze Framing Part 2: Defense Continued and Offense, Developing Confidence, and The 48 Laws of Power

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Episode 106: Using "freeze framing" pt.1 serve receive and defense, Dealing with an aggressive front row setter, and Empathy vs. Sympathy

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Episode 105: Moving from a cutthroat culture to a competitive culture, Mid-season serve receive tune-up, and Volleyball Magazine

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Episode 104: John Mayer from CYBO on Serving ABC, Ideas for dealing with a frustrated player, and Mayer's top coaching resources right now

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Episode 103: Long court doubles constraints games, Playing up and playing down, and Powercore 360

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Episode 102: Teaching setting with one drill, My team is mired in the midseason doldrums, and The Learning Leader

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Episode 106: Using "freeze framing" pt.1 serve receive and defense, Dealing with an aggressive front row setter, and Empathy vs. Sympathy

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Episode 101: Tod's Top 10 Cringiest Player/Coach Moves, Managing expectations for major tournaments, and AOC's Virtual Clinics

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Special Episode 100: Sydney Bennett joins us to discuss how we can get better as coaches

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Episode 99: Coach Syd Bennett joins Tod and Davis at the VolleyCave to talk about strengths and areas of improvement

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Episode 98: Teach your hitters to hit way harder, My team needs more targeted serves in practice, and Transforming Basketball

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Episode 97: What to teach a beginning volleyball player, What to do when you lose all of your matches on Day 1 at a tournament, and How To Read People Like a Book

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Episode 96: Beating the Block, handling the post-tournament parent meeting request, and The Untrained Mind

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Episode 95: Part 2 of our Discussion with All-American Setter and Coach Krystal Jackson on Setting Consistency and Confidence

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Episode 94: All-American Setter and Coach Krystal Jackson on Setting Consistency and Confidence

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Episode 93: Improve the tempo of your practice, The increasing cost of club volleyball, and Volleyball Coaching Wizards' book list

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Episode 92: 15 Myths about club volleyball to dispel with your athletes, My team plays to the level of our competition, and Within The Game podcast

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Episode 91: Techniques for creating a more positive coaching framework, Initiation matters, and 7 and 1/2 Lessons About the Brain

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Episode 90: Guest Andrew Clifton from Goldenwest VBC is here with: serving under pressure, joining new programs, and The Creative Act: A Way of Being

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Episode 89: Teach your players to coach themselves, Coach better in 2024, and Bring Your Own Parent

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Episode 88: How to keep your lines short, Don't do this at practice, and Hidden Potential

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Episode 87: Takeaways from The 2023 AVCA Convention in Tampa, Florida

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Episode 86: Live From the AVCA Convention in Tampa, Florida

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Episode 85: Accelerated learning through mindset training, 1st club tournament coach's checklist, and Jelly beans

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Episode 84: Common misperceptions for coaching youth volleyball part 2, When you want to start fast in a match, and CoachUp

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Episode 83: The jump float serve, Starting a season, and How I Built This

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Episode 82: JJ Van Neil talks about practice planning, Taking over a new program, and The Knowledge Project

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Episode 81: Common misperceptions for coaching youth volleyball, What to expect when you are trying to "level up" your team culture, and Kinexon

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Episode 80: Postseason Wrap-up: What would we do differently?

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

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Episode 78: Dave Rubio talks teaching passing, How to work with that challenging lowest group, and Athletes Unlimited

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Episode 77: Player Vision (What you see is what you get), When a team has beaten you before and you need to beat them now, and The 100 Best Sports Quotes of All Time

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Episode 76: Teaching players how to use the rulebook to full advantage, I want to be a better match coach, and The Great Coaches Podcast

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Episode 75: Reinforcing system work in serve receive, getting your Middle Attacker the ball more, and The 10 Commandments of Winning Teammates

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Episode 74: The Safety Episode, When you need to do team bonding but don't want to do a ropes course, and some science behind how volleyball players get injured

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Episode 73: Coaching Skill: Adding elastic to your gym for faster improvement, When you can't stop and opposing hitter, and Mick Haley's take on stats that matter

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Episode 72: Deserted Island Drill: The Listening Game, When your team starts strong and fades in the middle of the match, and Brad Stulberg

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Episode 71: Deserted Island Drill - Front Row 4s, When you don't feel confident in your coaching, and The Volleyball Institute

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Episode 70: How to create a more balanced offense, Two teams practicing on one court, and Honoring Byron Shewman and his legacy

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Episode 69: Coaching language 2.0 (phrases I've dumped and their replacements), Improving servers' tactical awareness, and The VolleyNerd Podcast and Luis Cuatok's discussion on culture

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Episode 68: Establishing a culture of competition and cooperation, Day 1 of high school, and Tod's quote compilation

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Episode 67: Decision Making in 6 on 6, How parents can support their athlete during tryouts, and TheTJSanders

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Episode 66: Defense cues and tips, high school tryout ideas, and Catch Them Being Good

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Episode 65: Raising Player IQ, Tryout evaluations, and Beach Volleyball World

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Episode 64: Davis' Club Season In Review: Evaluating Your Own Coaching

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Episode 63: Passing 2.0, Middle School Summer Camp plans, and Run To The Roar

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Episode 62: Joe Trinsey and The Goldilocks Method (Part 2)

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Episode 61: Joe Trinsey and the Goldilocks Method, when your team is losing, and SmarterVolley (Part 1)

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Episode 60: Tod’s Deserted Island Drill, all the gear you need for a multi-day tournament, & ILTWYP

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Episode 59: Luis Cuatok on mental adaptability

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Episode 58: Working against the block, is my offensive system a good use of our personnel, and Positive University

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Episode 57: Coaching Skill -- Adding two contact games to your practice, When you only have two primary passers, and BounceBeach

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Episode 56: John Dunning on the slide attack, figuring out how strong your practice was, and Jeff Janssen's leadership manual

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Episode 55: Process and routine for creating a practice plan, Using a coaching evaluation, and P/ath Sports

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Episode 54: Coaching Skill -- Using a glossary to establish a team identity, Managing the Qualifying Process, and TorqVB

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Episode 53: Coaching Skill -- Using simple rules to facilitate learning, Calling your own touches off the block, AOC Handouts & Worksheets

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Episode 52: Coaching lessons from Japan, coaching in the deciding set, and EpicSports

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Episode 51: Chasing Greatness by Karch Kiraly, The VolleyPod analysis

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Episode 50: Getting my team to play with heart, Mental training remedies for playing better in practice than in the games, and VolleyMovement by Daniel Maciel

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Episode 49: Scouting, My team plays way better in practice than matches, and Mike Leach

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Episode 48: Teaching decision making, Getting recruited before junior year, and VIVI Athletics

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Episode 47: Coverage, what should I say during a timeout, and Chasing Greatness by Karch Kiraly

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Episode 46: Using key words to teach skills, our first ever player profile, Yuji Nishida, and JVA's coaching resources

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Episode 45: How to hit hard(er), My team is too emotional, and the Changing the Game Project

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Episode 44: Coaching Skill: Evolving from ball watching, should young players play beach or indoor or both, & Tod's books on the AOC site

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Episode 43: Attacking sharp cross-court, front row players who can't block, and Olympic Medalist Hugh McCutcheon's book

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Episode 42: Is teaching communication important, I want it more than my team, and VolleyCountry

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Episode 41: Closing the block, my team has no leaders, and The Team Captain's Leadership Manual

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Episode 40: Transition take two, winning a 3-day tournament, and AXIO Centripetal Training

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Episode 39: The tempo spread Offense, the end of the season, and AOC's Youtube channel

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Episode 38: My team makes too many errors, my team isn't mentally tough and Max Out Mindset

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Episode 37: Movement and rules of the road for beginners

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Episode 36: From the floor of the AVCA Convention, with interviews with legend Terry Liskevych, up-and-comer Tina Kinkead, and Hall of Famer Toby Manzanares

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Episode 35: Making practice great for the players, the What, Why, and How of stats, and Terry Pettit: Talent and the Secret Life of Teams

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Episode 34: Serving for the newest beginners, handling playing time when roles have not been established yet, and MoreThanWinsVB

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Episode 33: We must protect our base (defense), when your team has one player that is less experienced than the rest, and What Drives Winning?

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Episode 32: Decreasing the opponent's hitting efficiency, starting off the season with an experienced team, and The VolleyNerd Podcast

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Episode 31: Switching from indoor to beach and beach to indoor, when the ref is inexperienced or below average, and OnForm Video Analysis App

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The Parent Pod

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Coaching in reality, When my team gets down they stay down, and Anti-Fragile

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The 46 Challenge Drill, The Tether Method for out of system play, and The Captain Class

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Training responding in your athletes, My team doesn't move their feet and balls are dropping, and The Out of Rotation Podcast

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Feedback 101: Finding Your Coaching Voice, Before club tryouts, and How To Change

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Bridging the gap between practice and competition performance, My team is wildly inconsistent, and The Jon Gordon Podcast

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Beth Van Fleet on blocking, How Georgia State Beach selects partners, and Jeff Jansen's workbooks

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Itsy-bitsy Ideas for improvement, A no-nonsense way of standing out at tryouts, and Jordan Larson shows her character in Volleyball Magazine

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Early Season Priorities, The Olympics part 3, and Finding Mastery

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Talking less, The Olympics part 2, and Dan Meske on Instagram

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Sean Thomas on malleability in passing, what to check out from The Olympics, and HowStuffWorks.com

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Making Camp Great, Evaluating Your Practice Plan, and John Kessel USA Volleyball 6 on 6 Games

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Day 1 Practice Plan, Help Your Athletes Move Up a Team, and Top Dog

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Don't Train to Play (Play to Win), Tod's Book of Lists, and Soccer IQ

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Lessons from Tod's 11s, Starting with a New Program, and Avignon

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This or That

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10 Skills To Have in Your Teaching "Bag", Ending the Season on a High Note, and Bites of Beach on Instagram

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The Balltime Team joins The VolleyPod to discuss their product and progress

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Making the end of the season fun and effective, Do's and Don'ts for when players miss practice, and AOC's Resources section

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Get more kills from smaller teams, My players' parents are habitually negative, and VNL

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Handcuffed Speedball Doubles, Starting a brand new volleyball program for kids, and The Playmaker's Advantage

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Guest Coach Eduardo Fiallos from University of Colorado

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Freeze Framing Part 2: Defense Continued and Offense, Developing Confidence, and The 48 Laws of Power

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Episode 106: Using "freeze framing" pt.1 serve receive and defense, Dealing with an aggressive front row setter, and Empathy vs. Sympathy

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Episode 105: Moving from a cutthroat culture to a competitive culture, Mid-season serve receive tune-up, and Volleyball Magazine

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Episode 104: John Mayer from CYBO on Serving ABC, Ideas for dealing with a frustrated player, and Mayer's top coaching resources right now

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Episode 103: Long court doubles constraints games, Playing up and playing down, and Powercore 360

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Episode 102: Teaching setting with one drill, My team is mired in the midseason doldrums, and The Learning Leader

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Episode 106: Using "freeze framing" pt.1 serve receive and defense, Dealing with an aggressive front row setter, and Empathy vs. Sympathy

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Episode 101: Tod's Top 10 Cringiest Player/Coach Moves, Managing expectations for major tournaments, and AOC's Virtual Clinics

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Special Episode 100: Sydney Bennett joins us to discuss how we can get better as coaches

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Episode 99: Coach Syd Bennett joins Tod and Davis at the VolleyCave to talk about strengths and areas of improvement

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Episode 98: Teach your hitters to hit way harder, My team needs more targeted serves in practice, and Transforming Basketball

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Episode 97: What to teach a beginning volleyball player, What to do when you lose all of your matches on Day 1 at a tournament, and How To Read People Like a Book

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Episode 96: Beating the Block, handling the post-tournament parent meeting request, and The Untrained Mind

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Episode 95: Part 2 of our Discussion with All-American Setter and Coach Krystal Jackson on Setting Consistency and Confidence

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Episode 94: All-American Setter and Coach Krystal Jackson on Setting Consistency and Confidence

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Episode 93: Improve the tempo of your practice, The increasing cost of club volleyball, and Volleyball Coaching Wizards' book list

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Episode 92: 15 Myths about club volleyball to dispel with your athletes, My team plays to the level of our competition, and Within The Game podcast