Podcast Suggestion: Nancy Lorentz on Movers Mindset
Listen to this amazing lady. She’s the founder of PK Silver, and a cancer survivor. Worthwhile listen.
Season of Giving
There’s a great guy here in town who volunteers his time in a local church gym to host free indoor volleyball sessions. He sets up three nets, welcomes people, negotiates […]
Migration to Volleysensei.com
The Volleysensei content will now live under it’s own domain at VolleySensei.com. To everyone who is subscribed to the blog and are primarily interested in the volleyball related content, please […]
User interface bug
Multi-language support is a key part of modern smartphone operating systems, and in iOS, the operating system for Apple’s mobile devices, it is partly invoked on the keyboard with a […]
Visualizing NCAA GPA data
On 5 Sept 2018, the NCAA Research team tweeted out this chart : It reports the average core high school grade point averages (GPA) among NCAA Division I freshman student […]
Homographic terms
Many terms in athletic coaching are poorly defined yet form the basis of disagreements. For example, the word athletic is really not quantifiable, and describes some quality that cannot be […]
Volleyball and Newton
I ignited a fierce debate a few months back by simply asking: “the higher you jump, the more force you land with, right? (Yes, it’s a trick question)” I posed […]
How do you want your set?
I hear a number of common phrases during volleyball play which I discourage athletes from using. This is why. “How do you want your set?” Often advised for new teammates, […]
Becoming height neutral
The website Beachvolleyballspace covered the recent FIVB Gstaad Major with an article celebrating the winners, the currently top ranked Canadian team of Paredes and Pavan claiming the gold. The article […]
Earned or Found
I was having this discussion once about buying chicken. My friend was of the opinion that there are just superior sources of birds, and that one should judge a restaurant […]