🏐 Alan Knipe knows what to protect.

Recruiting 101 with Kevin Hambly.

April 16, 2023

Welcome to The VolleyBrains Weekly. Your weekly coaching bites are hot and ready, let's feast on them right...

Here's what we've got this week

  • Alan Knipe knows what to protect

  • Jenia Grebennikov got this

  • Keep your goals to yourself?

  • Recruiting 101 (with Kevin Hambly)

Protect your time.

Below we feature a short clip from our Masterclass with Alan Knipe.Coach Knipe discusses the importance of protecting your energy and motivation in sports. His message, of course, applies to all aspects of life...😊

There are only so many days in a week that you can be on edge and be at that high, high level ready to compete. You have to be careful to protect that time.

We don't use most of the time that we're allowed. We shortened it all up. You don't want your guys emotionally invested 2 hours before the match.

And if you're going to ask them to be like that every day, all week long, it's very difficult to have the buildup to the match so that they can fully invest into the competition.

I'm very protective of, especially as it gets late in the season, how many times in a week we're asking them to get up to full competition mode. Burn that energy, emotion, passion, and physicality that they're putting in to practice.

And then asking them to use that again on a Saturday and a Sunday when we've been doing this now for 4 or 5 months. So I'm really protective of that. And that's something I probably wasn't very good at when I was young, because you 'needed' to get a 3-hour practice done every day and you 'had' to get every rep in.

By the end of the week, they were out of gas.

Alan Knipe.

How did I get here?

Jenia Grebennikov is widely regarded as one of the best liberos in the world.

The best liberos also find themselves in not ideal spots. 😅

Or are they?

You scouted the first tempo and position 4 to spike a sharp diagonal ball on a near-perfect reception = you run up. No questions asked.

Thanks for the clip, Michael.

Better to keep your goals to yourself?

Do you think that sharing your goals with others will make you more likely to achieve them?

Derek Sivers says, "Nah, not so fast!"

In his TED Talk, he argues that blabbing about your goals can actually make you less motivated to achieve them.

Why? When telling someone about your goal, you (well, your brain) feel like you've already accomplished something. It's like getting a participation trophy for just showing up!

So, what should you do instead?

Don't spill the beans to everyone you meet and stay focused on 'the journey'.

Check out the short 3-minute clip below.

As with a lot of things that are true, sometimes the opposite is true as well.

Maybe the only way for you to reach your objective is to share it to 'an enabler'. 🤔

Don't be a douchebag.

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