🏐 John Dunning delivered big time.

New Masterclass alert.

October 01, 2023

Welcome to The VolleyBrains Weekly. Your biweekly/weekly volleyball newsletter is here. đŸ”„

Here's what we've got this week

  • John Dunning’s Masterclass is LIVE (part 1) đŸ”„

  • Solutions. Polish solutions ✅

  • Team, trust, risk 🇹🇩

  • Tim is the actual glue 🍯 (yeah, this is honey)

John Dunning on VolleyBrains

Today we launched part 1 of 2 of our extended call with John Dunning.

Coach Dunning spent 32 years in collegiate volleyball. First at the University of the Pacific and from 2001 til 2016 at Stanford University.

John guided his teams to 5 NCAA championships. 🏅

In this Masterclass John talks about:

  • The one coaching skill that overshadows all others

  • Why teaching any skill must be based on science/ biomechanics

  • What his goal is and how it could help anybody's journey

  • What the most fundamental team rules should be and why

  • The 2 things any successful team needs to possess

  • and so much more, ...

Our article was going over 14.000 words (with 23 video clips) so we decided to chop it up. Part 2 will go live next Sunday.

Click below or go to volleybrains.com.

64. John Dunning: Only do things that show respect.

In this Masterclass we feature John Dunning. John is one of only two Division I college volleyball coaches to have won NCAA championships at two different schools. And has guided his teams to 5 NCAA championships.

volleybrains.com/john-dunning

Can’t rip it?

What are the top teams in the world doing in difficult situations?

They create smart solutions.

Check out this 4-minute compilation of ‘smart plays’ by the Polish men’s National Team and Polish powerhouse and Champions League winner Zaksa Kędzierzyn-KoĆșle.

I know you guys (and girls) love these kinds of compilations. Purdue’s Michael Bouril came in clutch when I asked for a đŸ”„ clip earlier today. Go and take a look at his YT channel.

Winning Team = Trust + Risk

Canada’s Women’s NT head coach Shannon Winzer had this to say


More on coach Winzer’s coaching over here.

Tim IS the team

Check out this little excerpt below and the entire blog post over here.

“Which brings me to Tim. Tim’s score was consistently zero. Zero! Not just low, or trending downwards, but literally zero. Week after week, iteration after iteration. Zero points for Tim.

Well, Tim clearly had to go. This was the manager’s conclusion, and he asked me to make the necessary arrangements to have Tim removed and replaced by someone who actually delivered, you know, stories.

And I flatly refused. It wasn’t even a hard decision for me, I just said no.”

No really, read the blog post.

“Don’t try to measure the individual contribution of a unit in a complex adaptive system, because the premise of the question is flawed.”

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Matias