High Performance Coaches Clinic

[outwest1]

Any updates from the High Performance clinic in Colorado ? I know they not only has Karch and some top USA HP coaches but some international coaches involved ? Any feedback on the event, some of the best presentations , anything new and interesting ?

[BigTenVball]

Julio Velasco Head Coach Argentina, also Iran, and coached in Italy. Very entertaining, had some really good insights about solution errors versus technique errors, and primary versus secondary problems.
Laurent Tille France Men's Coach started a bit slow on first day, but picked up better on 2nd day. Was funny, interacted well, and once he did some explaining about what he was teaching/talking about, some stuff made better sense.
Karch of course, really good. talked a lot about the gym being process driven and outcome free. did "stir" some murmurs when he talked about making libero's and serve receives be much more vertical in their stand in serve reception. Related it to a middle line backer in football needing to have movement in all 4 directions, versus low and being limited movement usually going forward.
Jaime human computer.
Who else was there, and what were their thoughts?
FYI- Colorado and Colorado St had their players there as "demo" players. Got 2 days of really nice "extra" training.

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Feb 8, 2015 19:24:40 GMT -5 BigTenVball said:

Julio Velasco Head Coach Argentina, also Iran, and coached in Italy. Very entertaining, had some really good insights about solution errors versus technique errors, and primary versus secondary problems.
Laurent Tille France Men's Coach started a bit slow on first day, but picked up better on 2nd day. Was funny, interacted well, and once he did some explaining about what he was teaching/talking about, some stuff made better sense.
Karch of course, really good. talked a lot about the gym being process driven and outcome free. did "stir" some murmurs when he talked about making libero's and serve receives be much more vertical in their stand in serve reception. Related it to a middle line backer in football needing to have movement in all 4 directions, versus low and being limited movement usually going forward.
Jaime human computer.
Who else was there, and what were their thoughts?
FYI- Colorado and Colorado St had their players there as "demo" players. Got 2 days of really nice "extra" training.

Are these presentations archived?

[vbct3]

Clinic Summary: www.teamusa.org/USA-Volleyball/Features/2015/February/06/HP-Coaches-Clinic-Giving-Global-Lessons

Julio Velasco was a pleasure to listen to. Focused heavily on teaching players to think about the situations they are presented and the best solutions. Huge on empowering players to make decisions and subsequently think about whether or not they chose the best solutions. From Velasco: Sometimes the solution you chose was correct, but execution was the problem. Other times the solution you chose was not correct, so re-think the situation and come up with a better solution. Sometimes the issues are physical, rather than technical.

Laurent Tillie was a great personality. He is working hard to bring the coaching styles from USA overseas from a feedback and positivity perspective. Does not believe in "punishments", or consequences as we might call them here, to drills. "Losing is enough punishment." He tries to infuse humor into his feedback in an effort to create connections with his players.

Both of these international coaches were instructing the demo-players from CU and CSU to practice things that are drastically different than we prefer in USA. Ie. Cross-over steps on serve receive, bending at the elbow to change angles in your platform, and setting the ball high and tight to the net when out-of-system.

But if you listened to their overall messages, less so the technical, they were pretty spot on with their ideas on feedback and situational awareness.


Karch: Focus on Process vs Results, data-driven decision making.
Jamie: Motor learning principles, human mind limited capacity to learn, layering skills in your drills.
US WNT/MNT/YNT Technical Coordinators: Scouting, stats, how and when to use them.

[Coach John]

I wrote up an HP clinic report from my own perspective for those interested. I generally agree with what's been said so far. I thought Velasco was particularly good. His first session got me thinking in a more structured fashion about some things. Tillie was the more controversial one - at least in terms of what we generally seen coached in the US on the technique side of things.

And yes, the presentations will be archived from what we've been told.