Making myself a better coach
Here are the things I decided to/ trying to/ hoping to/ already/ wishing to implement in my volleyball trainings. Don't expect all to be implemented though... Somethings don't work the way that studies show.
- Gamelike training: The best practices involves serve, receive, set, spike, block, receive, set, spike blah blah blah. Introduce drills that involves them doing what they'll be doing in the game.
- Teach and reward cooperation, character and effort: A player who's a team player, have a positive character and puts in his best effort for every training and games cannot be a bad person out of the court. Volleyball trainings are not meant to train the player to only be a better player but also a better man.
- Show rather than tell: Human beings learn mainly through imitaion and practice rather than through listening or reading. Don't expect them to understand half of what you are saying every training, so keep the lecturing short.
- Give postive, precise and specific feedback: Tell them what they are doing right and tell them how they can improve on it instead of telling them what mistakes they made. Tell the players what exactly they've done to deserve praise. Not just saying general feedback like "good ball". That doesn't improve the player in anyway other than his morale.
- Change the scoring to emphasize on certain important or lacking skills: Make an ace count double. Or a serve into the net be penalised double. There are many many more variations to this. The players will pay more attention to those particular skills being emphasized on.
- Postive errors: Let the players understand some mistakes are better than other mistakes. Eg. a serve over and out is better than a serve into the net.
- Player initiated drills over coach initiated drills: Let the players take over the spiking or serving from the coach during drills, they are the ones who will be playing in the competitions.
- More touches: Make every minute of training time count. Let the intensity of training increase. Allow every player to get more touches during each training.
- Ask questions: Don't tell them what they are doing wrong, ask them. And ask the whole team as a whole so everyone thinks over the mistake or question.
- Be consistent: Houserules must be set and followed. The coach also must set a good example himself and let the players know what is expected of them every training.
- Back to the wall: Talk to the players and let them focus their attention to you only. The direction the students are looking towards should not have any distraction, ie sun, girls?
Thats about all I can gather for now. Note that I did noe specify that those points are for volleyball coaches only, volleyball is only used as an example on how to apply those points. In fact I find the information useful for other sports as well.
Special thanks to the following: 1. John Kessel, for conducting the clinic and give us pointers for "making volleyball fun for young players and coaches". 2. Weisheng, for organising some pointers and briefing me on the points after he went through his NCAP 2 technical course. 3 (Most importantly). James, for spending the time and effort looking though all the notes he have in hand, digesting it, adding other stuff thats around in his brain and finally typing it out here.
- Gamelike training: The best practices involves serve, receive, set, spike, block, receive, set, spike blah blah blah. Introduce drills that involves them doing what they'll be doing in the game.
- Teach and reward cooperation, character and effort: A player who's a team player, have a positive character and puts in his best effort for every training and games cannot be a bad person out of the court. Volleyball trainings are not meant to train the player to only be a better player but also a better man.
- Show rather than tell: Human beings learn mainly through imitaion and practice rather than through listening or reading. Don't expect them to understand half of what you are saying every training, so keep the lecturing short.
- Give postive, precise and specific feedback: Tell them what they are doing right and tell them how they can improve on it instead of telling them what mistakes they made. Tell the players what exactly they've done to deserve praise. Not just saying general feedback like "good ball". That doesn't improve the player in anyway other than his morale.
- Change the scoring to emphasize on certain important or lacking skills: Make an ace count double. Or a serve into the net be penalised double. There are many many more variations to this. The players will pay more attention to those particular skills being emphasized on.
- Postive errors: Let the players understand some mistakes are better than other mistakes. Eg. a serve over and out is better than a serve into the net.
- Player initiated drills over coach initiated drills: Let the players take over the spiking or serving from the coach during drills, they are the ones who will be playing in the competitions.
- More touches: Make every minute of training time count. Let the intensity of training increase. Allow every player to get more touches during each training.
- Ask questions: Don't tell them what they are doing wrong, ask them. And ask the whole team as a whole so everyone thinks over the mistake or question.
- Be consistent: Houserules must be set and followed. The coach also must set a good example himself and let the players know what is expected of them every training.
- Back to the wall: Talk to the players and let them focus their attention to you only. The direction the students are looking towards should not have any distraction, ie sun, girls?
Thats about all I can gather for now. Note that I did noe specify that those points are for volleyball coaches only, volleyball is only used as an example on how to apply those points. In fact I find the information useful for other sports as well.
Special thanks to the following: 1. John Kessel, for conducting the clinic and give us pointers for "making volleyball fun for young players and coaches". 2. Weisheng, for organising some pointers and briefing me on the points after he went through his NCAP 2 technical course. 3 (Most importantly). James, for spending the time and effort looking though all the notes he have in hand, digesting it, adding other stuff thats around in his brain and finally typing it out here.
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