🏐 Alan Knipe: Culture by design

Welcome to The VolleyBrains Weekly. It’s too hot out here to write a catchy line....make one up for yourself this time around. 😇

Here's what we've got this week

• Communication ➡️ Results, with Alan Knipe

• Japan, you are being silly 🇯🇵

• Our summer schedule ☀️

Coach Knipe lays down the fundamentals

Sit back and absorb these next 5 minutes of coaching awesomeness.

In the following 2 clips Alan Knipe explains why he’s all about making sure that he has control over his program’s culture. (Coach Knipe’s Masterclass)

"Culture is everything about your team. It takes time and it takes effort, and we choose culture by design over default." - Alan Knipe

Okay, so til now we’ve got.

Let’s continue…

Bringing us to this:

Yes, all this is obvious. And probably that obvious that we take a lot of it for granted…

Choose culture by design, not default.

The practical stuff.

In the article below we’ve featured parts of our interviews with Alan Knipe, Hugh McCutcheon, Dan Friend, Terry Liskevych and Laurent Tillie.

Over there they dive more into the specifics ➡️ what are some of their ‘culture defining practices’ with their players.

Enjoy!

Japan, going at it.

Japan is currently ranked number 7 on the FIVB world rankings.

But they are wiping the floor with every team (8 wins in 8 matches) during this year’s VNL.

Check out this Ishikawa and Takahashi combo to find out why it’s so tiresome playing against Japan. 😅

The VNL ranking today (25th of June 2023) is:

Summer schedule for the VolleyBrains Weekly.

We’re doubling down on creating our Masterclasses and Practice videos for volleybrains.com in the coming weeks.

You can expect this newsletter to drop in your mailbox every 2 weeks during the summer months. 👍

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That's a wrap. See you in 2 weeks!

Matias