🏐 New practice sessions - Dan Friend

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Here's what we've got this week

• Practice video time: Dan Friend 🔥

• Santa’s gifts 🎅

• BQT: Big Quote Time, Coach Knipe’s edition 🚀

• Superstar volleyball 👸

• Do hard stuff 💎

Dan Friend on VolleyBrains 🔥

Today we (again) launched a new Practice video session on volleybrains.com

The coach we featured:

Dan Friend is the head coach of Lewis University, the 2015 AVCA coach of the year, and our loyal VolleyBrains members will remember Dan from a Masterclass article we did with him a bit over a year ago.

In his Masterclass Dan put a huge emphasis on the personal development of his athletes. Today we'll take a deeper look at the technical and tactical side of things.

In the VB members-only video sessions coach Friend will go into detail on:

• Engaging a large group of athletes

• The differences between preseason and in-season

• How they evaluate redshirts

• Personal receiving activation methods

• What their specific focus is on during this part of the season

• Being attentive to running a smooth transition game

• The differences between his and pro athletes

• Many intricate details during drill overview

• and so, so much more

Enjoy!

The practice videos are 44 minutes long and timestamped.

Click below or go to volleybrains.com.

Open preview 1: Transition Excellence

Open preview 2: Receiving Activation

Santa’s gifts 🎅

On more than a few occasions we received the following question.

“Does VolleyBrains have gift cards for their full access membership? I want to gift a membership to a coach that’s dear to me”

No, we don’t.

But we will for Christmas. 

Feel free to just reply to this email (say hello and tell us you’re interested) if you are interested in gifting the gift of volleyball knowledge. 😇

We will follow up and keep you posted.

Fill that toolbox up 🚀

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The best…of the best. 👸

When you need to name the top 5 women’s pro club teams, you’ll probably mention Turkish clubs Vakifbank and Fenerbahce.

Two teams with some of the biggest international stars playing for them.

Gabi, Fedorovtseva, Eda Erdam, Stysiak, Zehra Gunes, Chiaka Ogbogu, Jordan Thompson…to just name a few.

In yesterday’s league game Vakif and Fenerbahce were standing at opposite sides of the net, and Turkish sports broadcasting network TRT SPOR was so nice to share a public stream.

Enjoy!

Doing hard things. 💎

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But I’m not here to give you podcast recommendations. 😊

The next quote he tweeted though…is essential.

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Matias