Top Coaches' Tools, Post Practice Routines, and AOC's How To Coach Volleyball: A Guide for First Time Coaches
5/1/202631 min
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First 90 secondsDavis· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Good afternoon and welcome to the Volley Pod. How are you today, Todd?
Tod Mattox· Host0:16
Doing well, Davis. Good to see you.
Davis· Host0:18
Good to see you back at it, Volley Pod baby.
Tod Mattox· Host0:19
You're, uh, you were talking pre-pod about your practices, saying you had some better practices. What- what's making them better? What's going on?
Davis· Host0:25
You know, I feel like we've turned a corner recently as far as being able to, as the girls say, stay locked in. And by that I mean just kind of avoid distractions and kind of like between touches even, stay on task. You know, a lot of that has been coming about lately, you know. And we've been motivated by the, uh, the talk we had the other week about the what is fun, you know?
Tod Mattox· Host0:49
Right.
Davis· Host0:49
Uh, uh, let's define fun.
Tod Mattox· Host0:50
Right.
Davis· Host0:51
And I think they've, they've always been very fun.
Tod Mattox· Host0:53
Right.
Davis· Host0:53
They've been a fun group, so they didn't wanna lose that.
Tod Mattox· Host0:55
Right.
Davis· Host0:55
And so my thing was like, how can we get the work done and have fun, right?
Tod Mattox· Host0:59
Right.
Davis· Host0:59
And so now it's being a little bit more focused, fewer distractions during work time so that we can just be social and have that fun and relaxed time when it's not. If that make... You know what I'm saying?
Tod Mattox· Host1:11
Yeah. Hey, having that balance isn't easy.
Davis· Host1:13
Goodness, yes.
Tod Mattox· Host1:14
You can be on one side or the other, right?
Davis· Host1:16
Absolutely, and I was kind of losing my marbles. I was like so serious, and they were just having fun. They wanted to win. They wanna win.
Tod Mattox· Host1:22
Right.
Davis· Host1:23
You know, and so it's like, how could we get there?
Tod Mattox· Host1:24
But nobody wants to lose.
Davis· Host1:25
Absolutely.
Tod Mattox· Host1:26
Right? Yeah.
Davis· Host1:26
But so it's like, how could we show that balance all the time?
Tod Mattox· Host1:28
Right. But still, that balance is, uh, that's