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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 getting better. We're getting more patron. All right. Okay from Patreon so we want to give a couple shout outs. My niece Ashley Rollins is a new patron so thank you. Aaron Brown
is a guy that we're going to get on the pod. I'll tell you about him later so he has a new patron as well as another coach I've been talking to pretty consistently a guy named coach Joe Johnstone so I thank you to our patrons and once again if you have any interest hopefully you do in supporting us check out our link at the end of the pod. Absolutely including the show notes 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 everyone check us out on Instagram at aoc dot the volley pod please check us out on a trion we'll leave that link in the show notes once again thanks to our sponsors hurl check them out at www www hurl.com and our coaching volleyball always killing it leader and sports education volleyball education you can check them out at the our coaching volleyball dot com thanks so much time well done see you next time take care bye
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