PRACTICE PLANNING (1 of 2)
John Mayer, Joe Trinsey, and Kirk Pitman talk about how they plan practice.
Mar 09, 2023•36 min•Season 5Ep. 236
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Coach Your Brains Out is founded by professional beach volleyball players and college coaches John Mayer and Billy Allen. The primary goal is practical, useful education that will help you become a better coach. Our podcasts are released every Thursday, so set your notifications accordingly!
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MANAGING STAFF with Dan Fitzgerald (2 of 2)
1:22 - What Dan looks for when he is hiring staff members. 4:20 - How does Dan manage the staff when there are multiple coaches that have similar strengths and weaknesses? 6:21 - Tips Dan has for effectively communicating with staff members. 10:13 - How has Dan delegated work among himself and his staff? 19:51 - How does Dan set and implement standards for his team, and how does he communicate with players that don’t meet that criteria? 24:33 - How Dan balanced stepping into a new role as a head...
Mar 02, 2023•29 min•Season 5Ep. 235
COMMUNICATION with Dan Fitzgerald (1 of 2)
1:24 - Introducing Dan, as well as his big takeaways from recently becoming the head coach of the baseball program at Kansas University. 3:15 - What were some difficulties Dan experienced transitioning into a larger role as a head coach, as well as moving to a new university? 6:29 - Dan’s experience with communicating with athletes, and how coaches can become better at this skill. 7:52 - With so many players on a roster, how does Dan organize 1-on-1s or other methods of personal communication? 1...
Feb 24, 2023•32 min•Season 5Ep. 235
CHAMPIONSHIP BEHAVIORS with Hugh McCutcheon (2 of 2)
1:30 - How Hugh manages to maintain a healthy lifestyle despite all the craziness that comes with being a coach. 3:12 - Does Hugh allow himself to set aside free time for things like watching a TV Show. 6:11 - Explaining the idea of being a woman and a warrior that Hugh emphasized to his players and in his book. 9:36 - What is coopetition, and how does Hugh incorporate it into practices? 11:47 - How does Hugh create a team mentality rather than one focused on individual results? 15:27 - Differen...
Feb 16, 2023•32 min•Season 5Ep. 234
CHAMPIONSHIP BEHAVIORS with Hugh McCutcheon (1 of 2)
1:56 - Hugh’s “retirement” and what his new upcoming role will look like in the next few years.. 4:55 - Will Hugh ever make a comeback to being involved on court as a coach? 9:10 - Should there be more barriers between coaches and players (especially young athletes) in terms of influence? Plus, check out Hugh’s book titled: Championship Behaviors: A Model for Competitive Influence 14:25 - How Hugh first navigated the evidence-based approach for coaching and education, and ways that new coaches c...
Feb 09, 2023•28 min•Season 5Ep. 233
CUEING ATTRACTORS - Motor Learning for Coaches
1:32 - Despite the losses, where does Andy see success in the Pittsburgh Pirates’ development? 2:15 - Andy’s predictions for the upcoming season. 2:44 - Diving into the idea of attractors and cuing, and how do they fit into the way we interact in our sports? 6:29 - Are attractors universal within all athletes when they start, or do they develop from coaching and instruction? 9:28 - Examples of attractors in volleyball. 17:35 - Andy’s thoughts on constraining with fluctuators in mind vs. with att...
Feb 02, 2023•33 min•Season 5Ep. 232
ECO-D FOR YOUTH VB with Loren Anderson (Part 2 of 2)
1:13 - What is something coaches can do to easily incorporate ecological dynamics for the first time? Giving more authority to the players 10:06 - Loren’s thoughts on the belief that “fundamentals need to be taught first” before there can be any variability in practice. 17:51 - More insight into practice design that uses the constraints led approach. 34:05 - Attributing a reason for doing something to a specific habit or action. 42:05 - Benefits of encouraging players to start a donor sport. Coa...
Jan 26, 2023•51 min•Season 5Ep. 231
ECO-D FOR YOUTH VB with Loren Anderson (Part 1 of 2)
1:50 - How has Loren explored ecological dynamics in the past? 2:50 - What originally pushed Loren to start learning about ecological dynamics? 9:47 - Have there ever been instances where Loren has questioned the effectiveness of certain aspects of the ecological approach? 13:31 - Does Loren think his teams would have won more if they followed a traditional approach? 15:28 - Differences between ecological dynamics and the traditional methods of coaching. Explaining within the lens of junior club...
Jan 19, 2023•44 min•Season 5Ep. 231
DIFFERENTIAL LEARNING with Wolfgang Schollhorn (Part 2 of 2)
1:26 - Despite research that shows that it’s not as effective as an external focus, how can internal focus still encourage learning in differential learning settings? 4:54 - What timing is best for maximizing the effects on the athletes? 6:44 - Are there any scenarios where athletes can have errors that are too extreme to be considered “bad errors”? 12:53 - How to successfully encourage elite athletes to move out of their comfort zone? 16:04 - Would the same improvement that took place when novi...
Jan 12, 2023•27 min•Season 5Ep. 230
DIFFERENTIAL LEARNING with Wolfgang Schollhorn (Part 1 of 2)
1:46 - Dr. Schollhorn’s journey through sports during his childhood and how it guided him towards studying the differential approach. 5:09 - When and how can coaches effectively use differential learning? The importance of effective communication 12:32 - Breaking down Dr. Schollhorn’s recent study on serving and passing in volleyball. Three main groups: Control, traditional (repetitive drills), and differential approach 16:29 - Dr. Schollhorn’s response to people doubting the actual usage and ef...
Jan 05, 2023•44 min•Season 5Ep. 229
JOE TRINSEY - Part 3 of 3
1:22 - Explaining “archetypes” and how they can be useful when scouting athletes or teams. Similar to Jamie Morrison’s idea of storytelling 6:42 - How adding variability and “noise” can strengthen the defensive and offensive system rather than break it. 7:41 - Beginner players run into variability while advanced players create variability. Why is that? 9:52 - The added benefits of linking archetypes with experiences that players have (e.x. drills in practices, or even plays). 11:41 - How John re...
Dec 29, 2022•21 min•Season 5Ep. 228
JOE TRINSEY - Part 2 of 3
1:48 - What are some specific games/drills through which Joe enforces this idea of “making the other side play”? 7:47 - Balancing freedom of play and potential development at the younger ages with increasing competition and competitive success. 15:27 - Joe’s thoughts on scoring games/drills where there is a “minus” component. 18:39 - Explaining the idea of “game teaches the game” and its role in development. 25:08 - When it comes down to smaller techniques and motions, leaving the athletes to se...
Dec 22, 2022•34 min•Season 5Ep. 228
JOE TRINSEY - Part 1 of 3
1:23 - Why does Joe call himself the “Forrest Gump” of volleyball? 3:17 - What can readers gain from becoming subscribers of Joe’s blog? Become a subscriber here: https://smartervolley.substack.com/ 6:10 - Creating a blog vs. publishing it as a book: Billy’s and Joe’s thoughts on the differences and benefits. 7:34 - Joe’s experience coaching the Canadian men’s indoor team over the last summer: what he learned and gained as a coach. 11:48 - Exhausting traveling experience for the VNL games. 14:03...
Dec 15, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 227
SPECIFICITY AND VARIABILITY - Motor Learning For Coaches
1:26 - Checking up on Harjiv: with the start of the NBA season, how has he been doing? 3:07 - What is “specificity” in relation to motor learning and practice design? 6:43 - Why should the specificity of practice and the specificity of movement be separated from each other? 10:16 - Defining variability and describing its benefits. 11:22 - Attributing specificity of practice as the “what” and the specificity of movement as the “how”. 13:09 - How do variation and specificity relate to each other? ...
Dec 08, 2022•34 min•Season 5Ep. 226
COACHING with John Mayer (Part 3 of 3)
1:24 - Has John observed a large variety in techniques of the same skills? And in what skills? 6:22 - How does the usage of an economical model affect the way John scouts athletes? 8:03 - In game, which stats are the most important to keep track of? 10:44 - Using stats to shift the focus and guide players to look at the success on their side of the net. 11:50 - What should you say in time outs or between sets to a player who is noticeably struggling to perform? 15:05 - With a new player in the p...
Dec 01, 2022•21 min•Season 5Ep. 225
COACHING with John Mayer (Part 2 of 3)
1:17 - How to address challenge point theory in practices with different players and teams of varying skill levels? 3:43 - Explaining synchronistic and antagonistic skills as well as how their relationship is relevant in practice. 5:39 - How do synchronistic and antagonistic factors guide John in training and challenging his players? 9:08 - Diving into some hypothetical scenarios, and how John would use ecological dynamics to address issues that arise. 15:14 - Especially with hand-setting in Bea...
Nov 24, 2022•32 min•Season 5Ep. 224
COACHING with John Mayer (Part 1 of 3)
1:36 - Switching up the roles: dedicating this podcast to asking John questions. 2:45 - How does John gather his coaching principles and ideas? Partially through co-hosting these podcast episodes! 4:00 - How John tries to transfer ideas/techniques that are explained in the context of other sports to volleyball. 6:15 - If John founded a youth volleyball club, what would be the major ideas that he would go over with the coaches he employed? 10:28 - How would John design practices as the “problem p...
Nov 17, 2022•31 min•Season 5Ep. 223
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES - with Dr. Matt Jones
1:16 - What has inspired Matt to talk about the topic of mental health services? 3:23 - In the late early 2000s how often were mental health services being used in sports departments? 5:51 - Why can it be problematic when different specialists with different career names are all categorized under the same umbrella of sports psychology? 7:23 - Can anyone with a degree ranging from a high school degree to a PhD become an MPC (mental performance consultant)? 10:57 - If a college program could only ...
Nov 10, 2022•26 min•Season 5Ep. 222
SELF-DETERMINATION THEORY with Dr. Matt Jones
1:27 - Introducing the Extra Mile Institute, and how Matt is involved with the program. Learn more at the website here: https://www.extramileinstitute.com/ 3:40 - How many universities do Matt and the Extra Mile Institute team work with and what are their plans in terms of expansion? 4:26 - Introducing today’s topic: self-determination theory. 6:39 - Why does extrinsic motivation not meet the same kind of demands that intrinsic motivation does? 10:39 - In what environments can “competence” be be...
Nov 03, 2022•34 min•Season 5Ep. 220
PLAYER IMPROVEMENT PLANS with JP Nerbun
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Oct 27, 2022•40 min•Season 5Ep. 221
Book Club CYBO Chapter 5 - PRACTICE
-Practice Planning -Deliberate Practice -Warm Ups -Competitive Games -Scripting vs Improvising -Reflection Books Coach Your Brains Out: The Art and Science of Coaching Volleyball The Inner Knight: Train and Compete Like a Champion Contact us for bulk orders: coachyourbrainsout@gmail.com Become a Patron to support the show....
Oct 20, 2022•58 min•Season 5Ep. 218
THE CULTURE SYSTEM with JP Nerbun
1:35 - What are some of the goals J.P. had in mind when writing his most recent book The Culture System ? Learn more about it here: https://www.tocculture.com/myculturesystem 5:28 - Clarifying the roles of a coach vs. the roles of a mentor in an athlete’s life. 6:50 - What are some of the differences between “goals” and “visions” that J.P. also explores in The Culture System ? 8:57 - An example of a coach who implements a vision statement, and how they do so. 10:50 - What are some of the problem...
Oct 13, 2022•30 min•Season 5Ep. 219
COACH DEVELOPMENT with Jamie Taylor
1:19 - Moving into the topic of Coach Development, what are values that Jamie emphasizes when developing coaches? 2:47 - Are there common traits that coaches have, or does Jamie treat each coach on a case by case basis? 5:07 - When Jamie observes coaches develop, what are some of the most common mishaps or mistakes that occur? 10:46 - Should coaches who are interested in improving their coaching read strictly research based books? 12:01 - What are the main skills or values coaches should focus o...
Oct 06, 2022•50 min•Season 5Ep. 217
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY with Jamie Taylor
1:24: How Jamie ended up working with coaches through his journey as a health and human performance professor. 2:17 - Given that Jamie is currently balancing teaching and “coaching” coaches, would he like to eventually transition into a role where he would just focus on working with coaches? 3:20 - High-performance sports has a history of applying ideas like growth mindset and grit (that are used in the context of another field of study like education). Why does Jamie think this is problematic? ...
Sep 29, 2022•34 min•Season 5Ep. 216
CHALLENGE POINT - Motor Learning for Coaches
1:37 - How have Andy and the Pirates held up so far, especially through the hottest part of the summer. 3:12 - After accepting and validating the struggles that athletes and coaches voice during the toughest parts of the season, what are the next steps? 4:20 - Checking in with Kasey - how has the beginning of the season gone for him so far? 5:55 - Traditionally the beginning of the volleyball season consists of “double days”, but what does Kasey do instead? 9:24 - Introducing the topic of this e...
Sep 22, 2022•37 min•Season 5Ep. 215
YOUTH COACHING with John Kessel - Part 2
Topics: Teaching rotations Coaching mixed skill levels Balance winning and development Teaching technique Handling "unmotivated" players Punishments and consequences Playing time Parent Issues Coach Your Brains Out: The Art and Science of Coaching Volleyball The Inner Knight: Train and Compete Like a Champion Contact us for bulk orders: coachyourbrainsout@gmail.com Become a Patron to support the show....
Sep 15, 2022•45 min•Season 5Ep. 213
YOUTH COACHING with John Kessel - Part 1
Topics: What are kids looking for in sports? Teach the most fun skill first Scaling the game for kids Foundational skills Planning practice Coach Your Brains Out: The Art and Science of Coaching Volleyball The Inner Knight: Train and Compete Like a Champion Contact us for bulk orders: coachyourbrainsout@gmail.com Become a Patron to support the show....
Sep 08, 2022•42 min•Season 5Ep. 213
MINDFULNESS with Tom Black and Shane Day
1:26 - How can coaches use mindfulness to alleviate the pressure and stress that athletes struggle with? 2:43 - Circumstantial effects of mindfulness exercises (different feedback/reception). 3:45 - Describing mindfulness practices that Shane has found to be helpful and effective. 4:58 - Why is it so important to acknowledge mindfulness and how we respond to certain emotions, especially those that are caused by failure. 7:25 - When Billy is writing, is he aware of his thoughts when he wants to w...
Sep 01, 2022•26 min•Season 5Ep. 214
WHAT’S CHANGED? with Tom Black and Shane Day - Part 2
1:44 - How would the key ideas of coaching fit in with a constraints led/ecological approach? 3:31 - Explaining Frans Bosch’s idea of “attractors” in as a guide for achieving specific skills in athletes. 7:11 - If athletes are too knowledgeable of the checkpoints involved towards a key, does that take away from the variability that allows for greater stabilization? 10:37 - Why does Shane allow his players to fail? 13:39 - What qualities does Tom dislike in athletes, and does failure fit into tha...
Aug 25, 2022•33 min•Season 5Ep. 212
WHAT’S CHANGED? with Tom Black and Shane Day
1:48 - What has changed for Shane since the last CYBO episode he was interviewed in? 2:34 - How did Shane adjust to coaching different positions? 3:59 - Has Shane’s experience within the last few years coaching different positions allowed him to gain a perspective of football that benefits his capability as a coach? 4:43 - What has changed for Tom in the last few years since he was last interviewed for CYBO? 5:21 - What have Shane and Tom been chatting about over the last few years? 6:54 - What ...
Aug 18, 2022•29 min•Season 5Ep. 211
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