{"id":885,"date":"2013-08-29T09:57:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T08:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=885"},"modified":"2013-08-29T09:57:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T08:57:51","slug":"required-volleyball-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/29\/required-volleyball-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Required volleyball reading?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back in September of 2013 the last of my series of college program training visits<\/a> was at UCLA<\/a>.\u00a0Interestingly, when I got to the gym ahead of their training session I found them reviewing\/discussing of the book [amazon asin=B005K0AYH4&text=Crucial Conversations].\u00a0Then assistant coach Stein Metzger told me they wanted to improve on the communication front. They felt it was a problem with the team the prior year. I haven’t read the book before myself, but it’s a best seller so clearly quite a few others have done. Might just give it a look to see what’s what.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After UCLA I had just about a week left in the States. I didn’t have any more visits scheduled. I wasn’t done with the volleyball before I headed back for England, though. The University of Wisconsin played at Pepperdine. Pepperdine is a beautiful campus (located in Malibu), so went. I happened to also know the Wisconsin coach from my days at Brown. He coached at Albany then and they came to one of our tournaments. I posted here<\/a> about something I saw there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also went to the famous Manhattan Beach. I heard about a fantastic little Mexican food joint there. Oh, and it has a reputation for some pretty good beach volleyball action too. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In September 2013 I made a trip to UCLA to observe the women’s team there in training. I found them talking about a book, of all things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[125,339,341],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching-resources","category-coaching-volleyball-stories","tag-communication","tag-university-volleyball","tag-us-collegiate-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","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=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/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=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}