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Good morning and welcome to the volleyball that were you today Todd do well Davis back
out it you guys played yesterday oh man yes we did and we learned a lot and had a lot
of fun and it was a great experience came out scathed. I'm scared. I like that. It came
out scathed but you know what it was honestly it was a great experience we're learning
how to compete the teams we're playing every game in our pool was very close and it was
very competitive so we are we're learning but I tell you what there's a lot of good teams
up there. Hey everybody's getting better. Everyone's just not just you speak it up. Yes
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and yeah that'd be awesome check set on Patreon and we did want to talk about one thing before
we go into your skill have you seen the new rules that they have thought up for the men's volleyball
nation's league. I hear you can't grab the ball and slam dunk it against the block. Exactly. No
reverse you know cradles anymore. No but you absolutely there's so I think the two that stood out
to me and and I don't have the exact wording so bear with me everybody but it's basically no extended
contact on the ball. That's the slam dunk stuff where they're just jumping up and just kind of
going and taking the ball throwing it against the block and then out of bounds. I think so yes but
if you're throwing it down against the block where they just go and look at the block and just
kind of slam dunk it around it or something. Right so I don't it'd be interesting how the redirect
rallies into that so maybe that goes away but it's one hand or two handed. Okay right and so that
one's kind of interesting so I'm interested to see how that one plays out. I like that I think
it's gone a little too far maybe some stuff that I see what happens a lot. I mean it definitely
happens a lot right so it's like what will people do instead now? Well they adjust right how's
they going to call it. I want to say like maybe 20 times a game like I'm so sure it happens a lot
in the men's games because I think the the new thing of hey set it high and on the net and go
up and deal with it right exactly but I think it's coming to the I think my belief on this is it's
come to the point where they're not sure if it's a carry sometimes they're carrying it into the block
right and so they're saying no extended contact to try to get some of that. Yep I like it so it's
kind of interesting but the one that I think is absolutely fascinating it cannot wait to see the
matches is now the Libero can set from inside the 10 foot line which opens up a whole new world of
possibilities for how you run your offense right in theory you could have five hitters right you could
also have sort of and this is what my buddy was talking about sort of split the Libero position
in two so it'd be two DS is basically but they would also have to be more generalist because they'd
have to go front row right so they're going to be you know maybe the I don't know like tailor crab
type or it's like 64 you know Kimbalt handle but can also kind of handle the front row right you
could do that or they could just give up on the passing say we got five hitters anyways we're
going to work in these triangles kind of I don't there's a bunch of really cool stuff what do you
think about it yeah I haven't given it enough thought to see what they do but I like the idea
that they're playing around with it so this is volleyball nation's league with a man and they're
just oh hey we're going to experiment yeah very quick so yeah I'm going to check it out I'm
going to try to see a bunch of those matches this year so anyways foot for thought I want to check
it out and Todd you are up on the skill of the week okay the skill this is lessons from a
college spring practice oh cool so we have a new coach in town we are in San Diego and there's
a new coach at UC San Diego name is Spencer McLaughlin and when new coaches come into town all I
get in their gym and see and hey what does he do and what can I learn from him and actually he
has a guy working with them now as an assistant that we both know Jimmy Lungren who was at USD for
many years so I go into the gym there and see I meet Spencer because I didn't know him actually
knew his dad for many years ago his dad is kind of an iconic high school coach in Hawaii and so
the Spencer grew up there in Hawaii and then played a Stanford then coached up man and then worked
at SC and then just got the UCSD up so 10 lessons once again little list number one okay 90 minute
practice and it was tight okay so there was no standing around players were engaged
not a lot of talking not a lot of you know stopping everybody for instruction you know there were
explanations of you know activities drills games they were playing they were pretty short
very good use of assistant coaches and the drills and games a lot were more designed to give
their own feedback which I like it's very cool so what is that what does that look like well let me
I'll talk about I'll get to that in a first we'll talk about one that they did and I'll get that
to that those activities right after warm up okay so they lifted beforehand so there was no kind of
team warm up okay so they lifted they came in but they had individual circuit they did that I kind
of like okay and I know there's a lot of arm swing stuff going on a lot of the low draw stuff so
they're doing some low draw stuff that is interesting so they have a weighted ball think about this
so you have a weighted ball in your attacking arm so I'm right handed small ball so I have this
no it's like yeah but it's like a softball size okay weighted okay you know one of those like
sand you know like they're probably four or five pounds okay right yeah so and they're soft so
you can throw it against the gym floor right so they're not hard they're just they just stick like
they're just like they hit the floor and they just dance okay so stay so you toss the ball they're
just hitting against a wall so they're just working on arms swing warm up their arm against the
wall letting it down into the wall but they throw the ball high with their left hand throw the
ball down behind them with their right arm so you know where your right arm is you're throwing it
down behind you and then circling around to hit the ball into the into the ground interesting okay so
that's what they're that's what their hitters were doing so that was part of their circuit okay they
all did this one arm stuff against the wall kind of eye hand so they have just the wall a ball
in the person and they're just left riding against the wall okay nice okay one hand just a little
you know I I work in it you know control the ball with one arm and then they were doing some
setters were doing some one-hand stuff they had a little bit different and then they were all
doing these big band shuffle steps have you seen that oh those big those big rubber like a giant
rubber bands yes and then you're holding with your arms and then you're taking side shuffles
keep your cork locked yeah so yeah so they have that so that's part of their warm-up circuit so
they came in you know a little music going they were all kind of doing it on their own
and then the media as soon as that was like five minutes it wasn't that long they did a warm-up game
okay and he called this plaque setting kind of an interesting one okay
eco-de-exploration so it was five on five with no designated setter okay and so one of the things I
said before that drills games were designed to give their own feedback when you don't designate a
setter you know I think in the eco-de-language there are constraints the things that you're
holding back and so we're saying no design and so that's a constraint right that's what you're
taking away but the affordance is what it causes to happen and what it causes to happen is you
want more communication because every time a ball goes up somebody has to call his disaster right
right I like it okay yeah so so there's this communication and then it was a clock setting because
they had to face a different place so they might say okay the setter has to face area five of your
opponent so you had to face this way and then set one way or the other oh very cool or you have
to face your area one and then set so they changed the areas all the time so there was all of this
kind of exploration of who is setting and how are they facing inside setting and bump setting and
hand setting I love them and it sounds great it was just kind of fun stuff right he's just changing
all the time and just fishing a ball and play kind of warm up game on five so it was one-on-one attacking
okay so cool and then after that so that's what I mean I kind of getting back to before
the game right so he did say you guys got to talk right right wait a minute yes you know if
you know we have setters crashed against each other hey for your obvious right you have to talk a
little bit right okay then they need a platform series with coaches bowling and so specific kind
of simple block training stuff and I think maybe I I watched it like oh maybe I've moved too far
in the EcoD and need to do a little more block because he had left and right and he was one of those
guys where he doesn't want him behind the ball he wants him taken on one side or the other and then
so they were bowling fastballs too sided and then saying take it left or right and then
he had him start short and move deep so they were drop stepping and then he had him start deep
and then come and move short and kind of sprint to two feet and then and then pass so then from
there from that bowling they had coaches serve and they were they put setters out with two
players out so they were just sort of like you know a passer in in five and six or a passer in
one and six and then they were serving the scene and they stayed for two and there were two groups
doing that and the setters were setting cool so it was and then they went into more live serve
receive with setter setting and the thing I like about their setter setting on two so because
they only had one court that's one thing I didn't say so they were on one court so the one cool
thing about the setting they were doing when they went live serve receive is they had three setters
and one court was setting reds or behind and one court was setting the other side was setting
but the ball was hitting up at the same place right and then the setters were rotating through
okay okay so one setter was off as a target and they had them ban it and they had another coach
at the target putting balls but all the balls were together right we're setting them all back
and they're setting goals so it wasn't like the balls were all over the place because both were
setting goals and both were changed so I thought that was just a smart kind of just interesting little
thing the balls were all in one place it makes it kind of simple that's cool and then rotating
a setters through so that was then they kind of went to they had the the middle serving
the passers-passing with the you know the the left and the liberals it was all just serve pass
but the cool thing they had is they were rotating their middles through and the middles would run
their routes and communicate and wouldn't jump okay okay and they wouldn't set the middle so
so the middles weren't getting extra jumps the middles were going space and speed and communication
interesting which I really liked it put a real you know spotlight on that on that middle
communication I love it right yeah when they're not getting set well exactly like a lot of times
when you just jump high you can all that stuff works out now it's like we can just tell because
you're not even jumping well I put attention to it yeah and and I think that when we talk about
the first layer of our offense is the quick attacker and can the quick attacker be up every time
and loud every time and pulling attention to them it's a great point absolutely yeah and so I
thought they did a great job with that that's cool uh next uh that was about 30 minutes in so now
we're about 30 minutes into their practice about one third in so they've they warmed up uh they've
done a little warm-up game the clock setting and then they did a whole platform series with a bunch
of platform reps with bowl bowl bowl and then serve serve serve and then have a setter setting and
then the middles running a little route I love it okay so that's so far yeah then we get into what
they call Louisville five on five and this was a uh kind of fun constraints in this so this was
three contacts if you contact it three times you can't jump interesting and then you have to hit
a some kind of ball over the net on three he called it I think a mean ball M-E-A-N a mean ball not
a free ball don't make it easy for the opponent really okay nice but if it's one or two contacts
you can jump an attack I like that that's cool okay so it's there were competing five on five with
those constraints so there there's a bunch of competing because you're digging a ball and somebody's
got to jump and hit it right there's all this once again this confusion like it's not just oh
we passed the setter and the setter sets and then there's this you know hey can you be kind of
feisty the way you hit over a third contact when you don't get a hit smart okay then we went
back out of the game into some blocking work once again some block training with coaches on boxes
and a bunch of one-handed blocking okay and even some stuff where they were taking one hand and
kind of crossing it over their bicep real interesting stuff and I'm going now what why you you know
what is that about and they said hey we're finding that you know most of the block touches we get
our outside of our body right and that's tough I think for young players if you don't have people
that are over the net right they're reaching to the side and then below the net we've talked about
that but they're doing a bunch of that stuff they all had light balls and it was interesting because
I was the one thing I noticed I was sitting kind of on the side and I was looking at the blockers on
the net right okay and a lot of the tall middles were really bad at sealing and a lot of the
the like pins were really good we're just going up and just sealing as they went over the net
getting a bunch of blocks okay and a bunch of the the taller players were getting the ball like in
that area you know their forearms where their forearms were off the net and they weren't getting
the ball there just interesting interesting note right the cool thing while they did that they
had some liberal work they were doing on the side okay with no net and the one thing they were
doing is something that I've talked about before that we do with our young kids but they were doing
it with obviously very well it was you know the girl the the libera who is a coast coach
polina yeah so polina was there and she's playing great really good anyway the two liberos one
was spooking the other so the coach was just serving balls to pass back to the coach and one
player's tracking the past and the other player's trying to spooker so he did it in a way so he just
kept track and then they're switching so they did that and then they were doing kind of some
interesting stuff that was block training stuff where the liberos were on their knees and the coach
was tossing balls all around them so if it was way in front of them they had to kind of lunge in
pancake if it was closer to them they had to kind of snow cone it up right they don't want a pancake
when a ball is close to you right right so but we have I think these kids are pancake all the time
on balls and you know the pancake and balls are hitting their bicep right that wasn't the right
move it's right and then they had a bunch of left-right stuff of scoop it but the cool thing was
is they could get a bunch of reps from their knees to just kind of eye hand wraps and once again
they're not you know you're taking some of the perception out but they're working on a bunch of
different stuff a bunch of things with first you left hand right right oh yeah absolutely you
can get some bunch of left hands and they're not getting beat up right you know if you're doing
this stuff with the libero you know with tipping then they're hitting the floor like 25 I mean
they're getting you know 25 30 reps in just a few minutes right and you can't get 25 or 30 reps
of them laying out right while saving their bodies yeah so it was kind of cool then they did
some offense worst defense you know kind of ball set or ball hitter right where they weren't playing
out right so they're just defending and the focus was on some of that blocking right and getting
it closed and they were going into four ball sequences so they would go go red go red and then
flip their middles around there so four balls and then flip their middles and then they would kind
of progress that they would kind of move to go red setter choice setter choice like okay okay so
first they know kind of where it's going and then they don't know where it's going okay and then
they added a fifth ball out of system with block three okay I like it so it was go red go red choice
choice block three out of system I like it and so a lot of team defense and so they're looking
as a blockers a lot okay and light balls are telling the hitters to attack the block
uh and so we got like a lot of feedback there that's cool okay and so that sequence uh was about
another half hour now we're about an hour a little over an hour in okay and the last you know
half hour or so was six on six wash and there was a serve and then the ball to the setter without
a system and you had to win both for a big point I like it very simple two ball wash right I love
and that was a practice that's a great practice I mean okay that's kind of where I feel like
that's a lot of play a lot of play okay but some block training with some platform some
block training with some blocking right and I like the little body saving elements too where they're
getting right very very close to game like or as almost as close as you can get but still saving
their body a lot yep right so it's very like efficient use of the time yeah a lot of times I think
we go so hard that they cannot do that every single time for a million reps it's just not feasible
so I think they did a great job balancing all right all right awesome well okay but just we move on
let's uh tell me have you dove into the huddle video yet from your play are you waiting for that
I sure have sure how long does it take you to go to the video oh my goodness like okay so we were
we played about two hours away and I just immediately went home and watched
like that and I had to get away for a little bit but the drive was you did watch it on your drive
did not want to drive that's good good for stage you say but I mean it's again it gives such great
insights and such a short time and it can it can really either you know confirm what I'm thinking
or go against it and either one is good you know what I mean and so a lot of times I'll be like
I actually thought you know I thought she had a camp and now I'm looking at it and it's like
not so much or vice versa right and so there's a lot of that going on and again I think it's what
I like about it makes things clear quickly right you don't have to spend tons of time to get some
observations that you need and present those to the girls and so it's they're able to take some
real applicable stuff to practice and get it going and you were talking about one hitter the nice
thing is you talk about one hitter who kind of killed you a right side or I think an oblisit who
killed you and kind of go back and you go hey what could I have done and so you just go watch that
players attacks right what could we stop and play what was happening you know was it the block
was it our defense what could I have done differently as a coach and I think that's the great
thing I like about going back and being able to to you know really take a look at it and see hey
was I right what I saw during the match was my feedback on target or what could I have done
differently to help my team and then the other thing I would absolutely by the way and then the other
thing I would add is we've also been watching the full match play so it's like a lot of times
most of the time I watch the clips meaning like it'll be like their passes their sets and it's very
you know quick and efficient but I'm now looking at our team's game management okay and sort of like
how runs are happening and stuff like that which is obviously a little bit more difficult to see
when clips so both of them are useful and you can get both with Huddle and we're trying to say like
look why are we playing so well for this stretch and then all of a sudden it doesn't happen is it
is it them or us and so anyways being able to do both is awesome it's such a great resource we
always check recommend them and guys please check them out at huddle.com and I think I'm up on this
scenario what do you have today okay so scenario that is near and dear to my heart everyone
asks to come in for reps right and get reps right and the race for reps right and I'm gonna
lead with this so I'm gonna talk about how to get good reps right get good reps right now it did
come out recently that the 10,000 hours thing is a little misleading okay meaning the point of
the book was kind of you know the 10,000 hours yeah yeah that's been yeah been around a long time
and there's been a bunch of yeah research on it and again I think the idea is awesome if you
put in the work you're gonna get it but the idea is not all work is even right and so by putting
in 10,000 hours you may not get there those are those are 10,000 hours 10,000 full rich learning hours
and that's what I want to talk about today a lot of times we go in the deliberate practice deliberate
practice exactly and so a lot of times I think we can make more out of the reps we're getting
right and I think some of it look I want to say there is a time to have what they call unfocused
reps where you're just literally just letting your mind disconnect and you're just kind of doing
the thing right I do think there is a time for that but especially as you're learning I think that
time is less because you're the habits that you have aren't ingrained right so if you're doing
unfocused reps there'll be times when you're doing habits that should not be doing right so most of
the time you should be focused reps so so let's talk about what makes reps good reps this is
kind of for the coaches and this is kind of for the players too right because you know if you're
playing volleyball those are reps right and a lot of times they're like well I need to do reps
it like you're playing volleyball those are reps those are probably the best kind of reps you can
be getting right well those are game like reps that you're playing in a game where you know everybody
loves a private lesson where I can set up something to make a player look good or feel good right
and it might be fine but you're probably going to get into some of that what makes a good rep right
well and again it's like yeah you're getting game like reps but I think how you treat those
is is obviously the key right so good good reps and this a little bit of opinion but I think a
little bit of science in here good reps to me are as close to actual as possible right so there's
big belief that you get better by playing right and I would agree with that as long as there's
a focus right so I think the more you can play volleyball those are good reps especially when
they're focused and a couple of these other things we have and they're like you can just go knock
the ball around and and mess around and those won't be quite as good but again at least they'll be
exactly what's going to happen in the game right and so a lot of times like you were just kind of
mentioning a lot of those things that we're getting in rap are a little bit disconnected from the
games right they may have some value right they may have some value meaning like it's disconnected
but it'll still help you do this but a lot of those things they're better than nothing absolutely
right if you're better than sitting on the couch 100% right right but can you make more out of
but do you make more out right exactly and so I think there are a few things that I think make
great reps right one competitive right and then know you're like it's a lesson who are going to
be competitive it's it's being competitive against yourself basically right or the ball or the
server in a row in a row how much can you do in a row how many private lessons and it's engaged
it's not whatever you know whatever happens no it's competitive even if they're not keeping score
right it's a little bit of competitiveness next there's a degree of stress right we talk about
the challenge point yep right that's a key thing for the reps and what I think I see too much is
people believe they can pass but they're passing off of stuff that's not gambling too easy it's too
easy and so they're not really getting better at game like passing and so they believe they're
going to passing and then all of a sudden they get in the game like wait what happened right well
that's the game that's what we need to be good at right so I think there needs to be that degree
of stress and that realism right and now you're not going to be able to get there in the lesson meaning
you don't have the crowd there you don't have all that stuff right so it doesn't have to be exactly
like that but can you have a degree of that and that will bring it closer right next intentional
right intentional this is so he like what what aspect of the game are we working on here right I
think again like we said when it's disconnected from the game it becomes less relevant and it won't
translate back into the game nearly as easily they'll get better at doing that thing but that thing
when you take it into the game is not really going to work it's kind of like it's kind of like
going straight on a layup and scoring a basket in layup lines right it's like you're going to be
able to do that but that's not going to be able to present itself in the game yep almost to ever
right so can we make make it intentional so literally just by saying hey here's what we're working
on here we're going to work on that ball that catches you up high and you got to open up or we're
going to work on the tough floater and you just setting the mindset towards that and being intentional
right next I like the idea of natural consequences right and this is why the game like reps the
the reps in the game sometimes hurt their feelings right because they're not doing as well as they
think they are and that's okay right they might do well for a little while and then not as well
but those are the natural consequences from working on that skill I really like that I think that
is good work meaning like when when you don't do it right it doesn't work out the way you
thought it should that's a natural consequence right I think a lot of times we take that away
from them by making it a little too easy or they know it's going to happen too too quickly or
too soon and stuff like that where there's no choice element and no randomness so this or that
right yes hey I'm going to serve a ball that's going to be a drop in front of you or I'm
going to serve it to the back line right because you have to drop set or you have to move forward
so it's just to forward back I'm not going to move your side to side on this yes and that process
gives you too key exactly that that process of deciding is where the money is right because seeing
it makes the move happen you can't make the move happen without recognizing it and so I absolutely
think that there's tons of values that perception and action right you want to keep those links and
let's say one of those like one of those spiking machines it has the ball held up for you right
right right so you run up and jump and hit now there might be some you know it might be useful to
work on an approach for beginning players or something the ball is not going to be stopped
there and all of the timing all of it you know timing cues and everything or take all the
perception is taken out and you know wouldn't spend a lot of time on with a machine like that
absolutely and if you do you just do it intentionally knowing some of the limitations
and it's all good right um next I think good reps have a focus other than just the outcome
right so we're going to focus on passing threes okay that's awesome we every be awesome I always
want to focus on that and setting the intention obviously matters but can we have some
behavior that we want that will lead to that so just something by it's like by the end of this we
will be more efficient doing this is way better than by the end of this you'll be passing all threes
or you know not getting ace or whatever I think I think again setting the intention is great
next and we just kind of mentioned this having a degree of stretch meaning like you're not just
I think there's a time to reinforce reinforce right I do but I think there's a degree of stretching
towards what they cannot do I think that's those are better reps generally in lessened situation
right because it's like in the game you can't give them the attention sometimes that they need
on those stretch reps it's like well that one that one's a tough one but we'll address that when
we can't now you're in the lesson so now we can make it a little tougher and say okay on those
challenging ones here's what we want that kind of so there's a degree of stretching them to their
next level I let's put it like that I think that matters next and we mentioned this in the practice
exploring the how and the why and the connections and and the difficulties of some of these things
right and this is my buddy Sean is the best at this he's like but on that one this right on that one
this exploring connections right so it's you don't have and this kind of goes into the next one
you don't have a million focuses but you have a few focuses and then from there they're connected to
everything else right so you can get into that a little bit okay you totally did do that right now
why didn't it go there well we got to do this and that's connected to the sort of the next piece I
think that that idea of it being connected to the whole is really important and then finally I think
good reps you choose your focus wisely right I think a lot of times coaches are like here's how you
pass and it's like yes that's that is right but what about for this athlete and for that ball and
what should the folks as be for this person right I think those choosing those things wisely as
matters like and again if someone's great in a core passive passive situation like I want them to do
it but if they can't not get their body to the ball we kind of make sure they're good at going
offline or whatever yep so just defining what those things are consistently I think is really awesome
and then the kind of this is kind of what I was kind of mentioning is I think the
focuses should be differentiated so it's like for each athlete they have slightly different focuses
right you might set up the general focus for everyone but then the real money comes in it's
differentiated for everyone because you know what they are all different and they're all at different
places right and it would be amazing if they were all the exact same skill level at the exact same
time played the same way but that's not reality and I think a lot of times we'll treat them like that
all you got to do is you know get behind it or not that you know I'm off for that but it's like
can we take it to the next level and these are even better reps so so that is my take on good reps
and I would love to hear from the crowd too like I didn't mention anything about like motor learning
and any of that stuff but I think that we kind of talked around it right a lot of this has a
good motor learning practice is involved yeah but I think you know you talk about keeping perception
action linked right where you're not just doing the action there's a perception piece that come
to it which is you know big part of EcoD and yeah I just think the the other one that I would
mention and you've talked about interleaving before and that idea of good reps have little bits
in pieces where you have to go back and forth and you're not doing the same thing over and over
and over and over and over and over you know same thing over or maybe it's this or that and then
you go away from it and come back and that's a great and every time you come back so I think
that one thing like oh we're gonna do this until we get it right well and it's it's apparently a
strengthens that that skill if you leave for a little while because I almost have that remembering
process well that's it while the brain science says that hey you know we as humans we want to get
to autopilot right right right so you know as a coach we want to fight autopilot right right we
want to say wait a minute we have to be intentional about these things so we don't want to be on
autopilot absolutely but I would I would also say it feels good to be on autopilot oh no I mean once
you start playing you have to be on autopilot right you have to be doing those things right I guess
what I mean is to the players like players you seeking out comfort in skill development is not the
goal yep right you want to be a little bit uncomfortable and sometimes the coaches are gonna put
that on you and it's good right like I think a lot of times players like well I want to feel good
after I leave this lesson you know I mean I want to believe I can pass and it's like that's not really
the way it works and if you're seeking that a lot of times you're seeking the wrong stuff
they can kind of move you away from your goal so anyways that is the scenario of the week
all right right up on the AOC article to involve videos okay a couple good ones you'll like these
because I was at that UCSD practice and then we're doing a lot of blocking stuff we I started with
our friend Ken Merzac okay and this video is blocking strategy for off the net sets
pretty good awesome yeah very good so some some specific blocking stuff okay the next one is
from another master coach who's actually dealing with some health challenges right now Jim Stone
so our our best to Jim and his family because I know they're going through a rough time right now
and this is the crucial first step for middle blockers because they were working on that at UCSD
on you know blocking the go red and really looking at how that middle is moving there and then finally
the last one we have we have coach Dunning and getting into out of system offense and he was
there John Dunning Mark Rosen and Lisa Rosen with a full 60 minute segment on out of system offense
uh very cool okay there's so much great stuff at the AOC you know in their library so I hadn't
seen this one before I started watching them all this hour on this is awesome so cool awesome
okay stuff and that takes us to the resource what do you got resource guy is so good okay the
resource is called flux sports performance and it is coach Zach Panolio's business okay where
it teaches sports performance that's basically lifting all all sorts of the process in sports
performance basically but he's not only a friend of ours he's an amazing coach and his workouts are
very tailored to volleyball players yeah almost the most I've seen compared to any other athletes
like you'll do a lot of one leg stuff he supports like how to land right and not only that but he
gets them so explosive and he's got a great uh Instagram page that talks about all this stuff and
gives the concepts behind it too so he got some demos of the athletes he's got him talking about
sort of the concepts and he's just got such great theory and such he's so grounded in reality
to have because he sees so many students it's a great it's a great resource for anyone that wants to
learn about how a sports performance specifically applied to the name again it is flux sports performance
flux sports performance yes and I'll put it on the show notes and the coaches Zach I'm sorry
yeah Zach Panolio right he also got a brother Jake Daniel yeah who's a wonderful coach too
but Zach Panolio is amazing they're in the San Diego area but his information obviously is on
Instagram and check it out everyone's gonna be awesome all right again thanks so much Todd
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