{"id":20680,"date":"2019-01-28T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T14:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=20680"},"modified":"2019-01-28T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T14:00:55","slug":"book-review-coaching-volleyball-for-dummies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/28\/book-review-coaching-volleyball-for-dummies\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Coaching Volleyball for Dummies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Developed by The National Alliance For Youth Sports [amazon text=Coaching Volleyball for Dummies&amp;asin=B0029XKNJE] is a book I read entirely for review purposes. They specifically targeted it toward new coaches. Needless to say, I don&#8217;t fit that category. Some readers of this blog do, however.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I should note that I twice worked in an editorial role on Dummies books. They were in finance, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have decidedly mixed feelings on this book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the one hand, there is a fair bit of content you don&#8217;t often find in other places. I&#8217;m talking about the more organizational elements of coaching that I think new coaches could find very useful. Think of stuff like being organized, dealing with parents, playing time issues, etc. The things that happen primarily away from the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, the wheels come off (explosively in some cases) when the focus shifts to the actual volleyball. There&#8217;s lots of talk about warm-up stretching, which you may know <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/are-your-warm-ups-wasting-valuable-time\/\">I have issues with<\/a>. At one point the text outlines a 1-hour practice plan that only includes 25 minutes of the ball actually going over the net. And most of that is serve and pass. The terminology is a bit strange in places, and there are definitely some points where rules come in question. But the fact that the book came out in 2009 likely is a factor there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think if I am to recommend this book it would be similar to how some professors use college textbooks. Just go over certain chapters &#8211; in this case the ones with a more off-court focus. Unless someone is entirely new to the sport, though, I struggle to see the value in the rest. And even then I see it as a quick primer rather than a proper resource. Too much stuff that is either dubious or I would flat out reject. Better to get that information from other sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coaching Volleyball for Dummies has some good content for new coaches, but a lot of the material when it comes to actual coaching is problematic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[380],"class_list":["post-20680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching-product-reviews","tag-volleyball-coaching-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680","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=20680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20680\/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=20680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}