{"id":11688,"date":"2015-05-07T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=11688"},"modified":"2015-05-07T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-07T08:00:09","slug":"volleyball-coaching-wizards-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/05\/07\/volleyball-coaching-wizards-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball Coaching Wizards developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After an initial flurry of activity and attention, the <a href=\"http:\/\/volleyballcoachingwizards.com\/\">Volleyball Coaching Wizards<\/a> project has settled down into a calmer state of affairs. Partly that&#8217;s because I&#8217;ve been in heavy crunch mode with my PhD thesis development and my partner Mark has been involved in the German championships. While my own work continues for at least a little longer, Mark is now done for the season (though he&#8217;s now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofvolley.com\/News\/Latest_news\/Germany\/51732\/ger-m-lebedew-confirmed--i-am-leaving-berlin.html\">on the job market<\/a>). That means he can actually start doing some stuff! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>We have a lengthy list of coaches who are prospective Wizards thanks to research and recommendations. I&#8217;ve begun reaching out to a number of them with invitations to take part and the response has been very positive. The guys at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theartofcoachingvolleyball.com\/\">The Art<\/a> said &#8220;No&#8221; at first (though John Dunning individually said &#8220;yes&#8221;), presumably because they thought of Wizards as being a competitor to their own stuff. I don&#8217;t see it that way. If anything, I see it as potentially supportive, and told them so. They said they&#8217;d reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>The list of those who have committed is at about 25 now. Most of them are AVCA Hall of Famers. So far the international\/professional contingent is limited, but now that Mark is freed up I expect that to grown rapidly in the days and weeks to come. I personally will also be turning more attention to the high school and Juniors area, which are also under represented at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>I expect us to start doing interviews in a matter of a couple of weeks. We just need to iron out a couple of things. Announcements will be forthcoming, so keep an eye out for updates on the <a href=\"http:\/\/volleyballcoachingwizards.com\/content\/blog\/\">Volleyball Coaching Wizards blog<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/VolleyballCoachingWizards\">Facebook page<\/a>, or on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VBCWizards\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may not be as visible as it was at the start, but the Volleyball Coaching Wizards project is moving steadily forward with some great coaches committed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[144,374],"class_list":["post-11688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-r","category-volleyball-coaching-news","tag-elite-volleyball-coach","tag-volleyball-coach-interview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688","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=11688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11688\/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=11688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}