{"id":107367,"date":"2024-08-06T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=107367"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T13:00:00","slug":"momentum-depends-on-mental-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/06\/momentum-depends-on-mental-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Momentum depends on mental\u00a0skills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/share\/dir-bwr7h-1ed5ea62\">an episode of the Coach Your Brains Out podcast<\/a> (actually Part 2 of a 2-parter), there was a discussion between Jamie Morrison and Joe Trinsey on whether momentum exists in volleyball. In the exchange, Jamie suggested momentum in volleyball comes down to the mental skills of the players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll explain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basically, Jamie&#8217;s premise was that as players improve their mental skills they become increasingly focused on the current moment. The last play, or series of plays, doesn&#8217;t matter. Thus, no momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we aim to help our athletes reach that level of mindfulness and being in the moment. We talk about having a &#8220;next play mentality&#8221; or being like a goldfish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ted Lasso: Be A Goldfish\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8PmX7zEUg_w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And we also &#8211; hopefully &#8211; work with our teams collectively to do the same. The individual context and the team context are different, though related, after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But neither all our players &#8211; especially all at once &#8211; nor our team are perfect in this regard. And neither are the players on the other side of the net from us. So momentum is probably a thing at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guys brought up a related topic to this in the show. That&#8217;s the impact of timeouts. In the aggregate, timeouts do not have any impact on the sideout probability of the next rally. Joe mentioned studies he&#8217;s done and I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/when-to-call-a-timeout\/\">written about that before<\/a>. I think it was Jamie who rightly said on the podcast, however, the aggregate figures almost certainly obscure the fact that some teams perform better after a timeout while the opposite must necessarily also be true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there momentum in volleyball? One coach argues that it depends on the level of the mental skills of the players involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[252,322],"class_list":["post-107367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-player-psychology","tag-team-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}