Teaching growth mindset
View this post on Instagram Sport dialog is full of fixed mindset cues: “she’s just too short”. “He’s too slow”. “I’m not good.” Growth mindset involves considering each setback as […]
Training Day: 26 May 2018
Fundamentals of Beach Volleyball Done in cooperation with Sideout Volleybar. 26 May 2018 at 10:30am. Click for more details.
“Was that going out?”
I hear a number of common phrases during volleyball play which I discourage athletes from using. This is why. “Was that going out?” This phrase is most commonly uttered right […]
The Math and Consequences of Rally Point Scoring
The adoption of rally point scoring fundamentally changed the strategy in beach volleyball. The original mintonette borrowed scoring from baseball with nine innings — but few people even remember that. […]
Age and gender are not barriers
View this post on Instagram Age and gender are not barriers to being able to move with confidence, as proven by the number of incredible women that attending the Women's […]
FIVB Doha 2018
The news about the FIVB Katara Beach cup in Doha that has people agog is that Jake Gibb and Taylor Crabb managed to defeat Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena in […]
The Texas Primary Elections: by the numbers
It’s the day after the Texas Primary Elections, which serves to narrow the field for the two major American political parties heading into the midterm elections in the fall. Here […]
Observations on Primary Elections
Today was one of the election days in Texas. As a primer for the reader who is unfamiliar with the political set up in America, the scene is dominated by […]
How extinction shaped the Australian outback
The story in the Atlantic. When extinction is spoken about, it’s almost exclusively in terms of land based vertebrates, usually mammals, which form a tiny portion of the biodiversity of […]
Bring a coffee mug with you
Bring this with you for brunch. Or anytime you are in company that tends to start eating before you’ve had a chance to update Instagram. Order the mug.