{"id":1593,"date":"2013-12-22T09:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2013-12-22T09:00:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T09:00:46","slug":"avca-convention-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/22\/avca-convention-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"AVCA Convention 2013 – Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My last day at the 2013 American Volleyball Coaches Association convention (see Day 1<\/a>, Day 2<\/a>, and Day 3<\/a>) was all seminars. I went to four of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first session was the only on-court one I attended. It featured USA national team setter Courtney Thompson. She gave a player’s point of view on setter training and development. She shared a couple interesting nuggets about coach feedback and setter-hitter communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next up was a seminar on the Competitive Cauldron concept. That became quite popular in recent years. Basically, it’s a statistics driven approach to evaluate and rank players. The view was basically that while it has value, there are significant limitations. Do not use it in isolation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Third was a session by coaching legend Mike Hebert. His book [amazon asin=1450442625&text=Thinking Volleyball] was just released. I picked up a copy. I read his prior books [amazon asin=0880115327&text=Insights and Strategies for Winning Volleyball] and [amazon asin=0915611775&text=The Fire Still Burns]. Here is my review<\/a>. The talk came basically right out of the book. It was quite good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The final seminar was a panel discussion. It was titled “When Winning is Your Job – Designing Systems and Training What’s Important”. It lacked much about system design. There was, though, quite a bit on priority-setting and other aspects of managing a team and program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NCAA Division I championship match capped the day. I had a ticket to attend. I opted to watch it on television, though. Not once did I get more than 4-5 hours combined sleep a day the whole trip. I was out of gas!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final thoughts? The content was good. I just wish there was more of a social element. But that was a personal thing, and not the event itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The American Volleyball Coaches Association convention wrapped up with me attending four more seminars on a variety of subjects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[43,94,107,112,125,293,395],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-r","category-volleyball-coach-education","tag-assessment","tag-coaching-convention","tag-coaching-philosophy","tag-volleyball-coaching-skills","tag-communication","tag-setting","tag-volleyball-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","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=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}