{"id":4444,"date":"2014-08-25T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=4444"},"modified":"2014-08-25T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-25T08:00:33","slug":"book-review-little-black-book-of-volleyball-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2014\/08\/25\/book-review-little-black-book-of-volleyball-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Little Black Book of Volleyball Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

[amazon asin=0615287719&text=Little Black Book of Volleyball Coaching] by John L. Betcher is not a book I would have bought for myself. I added it to my Kindle collection before a trip to Germany<\/a> as something I could read during down times for review purposes. Hopefully, my small investment of time and money saves you some of your own. This isn’t a book I recommend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are<\/em> a couple of interesting and worthwhile bits in the book. They are particularly in the area of developing a coaching philosophy. I don’t agree with some of it personally, but that isn’t why I’m not a fan of this book. It’s the fact that so much of the book is just weak. And we’re talking about a book of only a bit over 100 pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A major part of the text defines and describes the phases of transition play. The author claims he included it because he didn’t see it specifically done in other books. I say there’s a reason for that. There’s no need. If there was an in-depth exploration of transition attack – play calling, training methods, etc. – then we might have something interesting, but that’s not the case here. Instead, we get a long-winded explanation of what I think most coaches already grasp pretty well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The one thing this book does offer is a number of coaching anecdotes. I think these might actually be the most interesting and potentially valuable parts for the reader. Beyond that, there’s about enough meat for a couple of interesting articles, not a full book. A much better option is Coaching Volleyball Successfully<\/a> by Sally Kus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Although there are a few interesting elements and worthwhile anecdotes, overall this is not a volleyball coaching book I am inclined to recommend for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21521,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,34],"tags":[108,365,366,380],"class_list":["post-4444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-n-r","category-volleyball-coaching-product-reviews","tag-coaching-philosophy-books","tag-volleyball-book","tag-volleyball-book-review","tag-volleyball-coaching-book-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444","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=4444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4444\/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=4444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}