Making Volleyball Fun For Young Players and Coaches
Spent my whole day on this clinic today. Here are some important lessons i gathered today. Try learning some of this... u won't know when U'll find it useful. As usual, not in any particular order.
- Don't sign up for anything without checking who are the participants. Although the targetted participants was originally meant to be coaches/ volleyball teachers IC, what i saw was all teachers, some not even having vball as a sport in their sch. Luckily i drag LJ along to accompany me.
- Don't approach any1 u think u noe but no very sure of who he is or how u met him. Ok actually i did apply this lesson initially, at 1st we saw a female teacher who we found very familiar, but didn't really get to talk to her so didn't bother. But there's this other guy who i found very familiar, n we actually ended up playing together at 1 pt of time. Den my curiosity got the betta of me as i told him i found him familiar. But it doesn't make sense (at least not at 1st anyway) that i'll noe some1 frm NYJC 1980 batch. Luckily after playing I began to rem that he was my teammate when i played OPENS in 2000, 5 yrs back... So can't really blame me for not remembering at 1st.
- Do try to be friendly to those who u are supposed to know but don't remember their names. Saw this teacher who attended the ncap 1 with me, and later saw him again at another clinic plus the youth cup that yr. Den saw him again when he was at my camp for reservist, which i had a chat with him. Today saw him again, but i still dunno his name. Haha... but we did have a talk. Anyway saw another teammate frm the same team as the guy frm the previous pt, at least this guy i noe his name.
- Do not be show that u r smart (hey... i happen to use my brains that works sometimes also k...). At one pt, the instructor just gave us some requirements and wanted us to figure out the drill ourselves. As a experienced player cum not-really-that-experienced-but-still-got-abit-of-experience-coach, it took me abt maybe 10 sec to come up with an idea which we tested and confirmed its correct. Den the more-experienced-than-the-whole-hall-add-together instructor got us to demo for the rest of the pple. I like to keep a low profile u noe... but this lesson links on to the next.
- Do not do stupid things like trying to flick a volleyball up with a single thumb. I tried, in a moment of folly (hey... I happen to not use my brains sometimes also k...), and now my sore thumb is sticking out like a sore thumb. (Hmm... Pls do not let any english teacher see this k? What kind of sentence is this?) And this lesson links on to the next still...
- Do not do stupid things like trying to spike when u are already having a sore thumb: U get a sorer thumb. Obvious enough... (I think my sore thumb is directly connected to my brain and esp the part controlling my english)
- Direct bashing only works when u are in the army. From the online map i thought its quite easy to go to the sch, juz striaght up north of the MRT station. When i alighted at the MRT station, I discovered that the bashing route is blocked by a row of fenced up buildings. At least u have the additional option of a taxi when u r not in the army i guess...
- Do show up for class outings more often. I saw a ex JC clsmate when I was transferring train. I shall not mention her name but let's just mention that she is darker than me? (oops... :p) The 1st thing she saw me was "wei", my reply was "halo... Don't i have a name or something?" N her reply was "halo..." Den she mention something very fast which i couldn't catch as it was too noisy and she left hastily. When did my name become wei or halo?
- Bring a spare tshirt if there's any chance U will get all sweaty. I didn't and i had to wear my damp shirt squeezing the MRT. I pity the pple who was standing around me.
- Gd sch does not mean that their canteen vendors cater gd food. Moses mentioned in front of every1 something like this "Our lunch is catered frm A**I canteen, so should not be too bad" This sentence does not make any sense to me when i heard it (do i need to mention i was frm chinese high?), after i started eating it, it made even worse sense. After my NSF life, I am now an experienced packed-food-eater, and I'm generally very very very... very ok with most food. I guess I don't have to explain much further...
- Warm up properly before U engage in any physical activity. I'm supposed to know this, and I do always enforce my troopers/ students to do it. But I didn't really bother today and now my whole body is aching...
- Learn what U r supposed to learn. I'm not making sense here... Y did I come up with all those lessons learnt above when its a volleyball clinic? To know why, finish reading this post.
- Don't procrastinate. In order to understand this pt... read below...
Ps: Actually I wanted to organise the notes i copied during the clinic and post it here, so I can have another look and hopefully find new insights to incorporate into my style of coaching. But I felt sleepy after dinner so decided to just post this entry instead. Maybe tommorrow then I'll do it k?
- Don't sign up for anything without checking who are the participants. Although the targetted participants was originally meant to be coaches/ volleyball teachers IC, what i saw was all teachers, some not even having vball as a sport in their sch. Luckily i drag LJ along to accompany me.
- Don't approach any1 u think u noe but no very sure of who he is or how u met him. Ok actually i did apply this lesson initially, at 1st we saw a female teacher who we found very familiar, but didn't really get to talk to her so didn't bother. But there's this other guy who i found very familiar, n we actually ended up playing together at 1 pt of time. Den my curiosity got the betta of me as i told him i found him familiar. But it doesn't make sense (at least not at 1st anyway) that i'll noe some1 frm NYJC 1980 batch. Luckily after playing I began to rem that he was my teammate when i played OPENS in 2000, 5 yrs back... So can't really blame me for not remembering at 1st.
- Do try to be friendly to those who u are supposed to know but don't remember their names. Saw this teacher who attended the ncap 1 with me, and later saw him again at another clinic plus the youth cup that yr. Den saw him again when he was at my camp for reservist, which i had a chat with him. Today saw him again, but i still dunno his name. Haha... but we did have a talk. Anyway saw another teammate frm the same team as the guy frm the previous pt, at least this guy i noe his name.
- Do not be show that u r smart (hey... i happen to use my brains that works sometimes also k...). At one pt, the instructor just gave us some requirements and wanted us to figure out the drill ourselves. As a experienced player cum not-really-that-experienced-but-still-got-abit-of-experience-coach, it took me abt maybe 10 sec to come up with an idea which we tested and confirmed its correct. Den the more-experienced-than-the-whole-hall-add-together instructor got us to demo for the rest of the pple. I like to keep a low profile u noe... but this lesson links on to the next.
- Do not do stupid things like trying to flick a volleyball up with a single thumb. I tried, in a moment of folly (hey... I happen to not use my brains sometimes also k...), and now my sore thumb is sticking out like a sore thumb. (Hmm... Pls do not let any english teacher see this k? What kind of sentence is this?) And this lesson links on to the next still...
- Do not do stupid things like trying to spike when u are already having a sore thumb: U get a sorer thumb. Obvious enough... (I think my sore thumb is directly connected to my brain and esp the part controlling my english)
- Direct bashing only works when u are in the army. From the online map i thought its quite easy to go to the sch, juz striaght up north of the MRT station. When i alighted at the MRT station, I discovered that the bashing route is blocked by a row of fenced up buildings. At least u have the additional option of a taxi when u r not in the army i guess...
- Do show up for class outings more often. I saw a ex JC clsmate when I was transferring train. I shall not mention her name but let's just mention that she is darker than me? (oops... :p) The 1st thing she saw me was "wei", my reply was "halo... Don't i have a name or something?" N her reply was "halo..." Den she mention something very fast which i couldn't catch as it was too noisy and she left hastily. When did my name become wei or halo?
- Bring a spare tshirt if there's any chance U will get all sweaty. I didn't and i had to wear my damp shirt squeezing the MRT. I pity the pple who was standing around me.
- Gd sch does not mean that their canteen vendors cater gd food. Moses mentioned in front of every1 something like this "Our lunch is catered frm A**I canteen, so should not be too bad" This sentence does not make any sense to me when i heard it (do i need to mention i was frm chinese high?), after i started eating it, it made even worse sense. After my NSF life, I am now an experienced packed-food-eater, and I'm generally very very very... very ok with most food. I guess I don't have to explain much further...
- Warm up properly before U engage in any physical activity. I'm supposed to know this, and I do always enforce my troopers/ students to do it. But I didn't really bother today and now my whole body is aching...
- Learn what U r supposed to learn. I'm not making sense here... Y did I come up with all those lessons learnt above when its a volleyball clinic? To know why, finish reading this post.
- Don't procrastinate. In order to understand this pt... read below...
Ps: Actually I wanted to organise the notes i copied during the clinic and post it here, so I can have another look and hopefully find new insights to incorporate into my style of coaching. But I felt sleepy after dinner so decided to just post this entry instead. Maybe tommorrow then I'll do it k?
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