The VolleyPod presented by The Art of Coaching Volleyball

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The VolleyPod is all about coaching kids volleyball!Each episode we cover 3 segments that are each designed to help you become a better volleyball coach.First, we focus on a specific volleyball skill, talk about how to teach it, and provide drills and video links for further help with that skill.Then, we present a common coaching scenario and discuss tips for how to (and how not to) handle it.In the third segment we share a resource that has helped us to become a better coach, with the hopes that it can help you too! See you on The VolleyPod!

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Recent Episodes
  • A Volleyball Rotations Primer, Big Fish Small Pond Syndrome, and the Newest Concussion Information
    Apr 11, 2025 – 00:38:16
  • The Actual Hard Parts of Coaching, Middle of the Season Culture Tune-up Using Quotations, and The Why Is Everything
    Apr 4, 2025 – 00:30:23
  • B.E.T On It: A Psychological Approach To Coaching Gen-Z and Beyond with David Durand
    Mar 27, 2025 – 00:37:10
  • The 'Libero Manifesto', Timeout Ideas, and Fit for Thoughts Foundation
    Mar 21, 2025 – 00:30:53
  • Passing an Actual Floater, 10 Ways To Improve Our Practices, and The Tough Stuff: 7 Hard Truths About Being a Head Coach
    Mar 14, 2025 – 00:28:34
  • The Power of Context in Player Development with Loren Anderson
    Mar 7, 2025 – 00:39:16
  • Dominate the End Line: Serving for Success, My Team Misses Too Many Serves, and How To Change
    Feb 28, 2025 – 00:37:39
  • Where Do I Hit It Coach? An Attacking Choices Paradigm, My Team Is Unfocused and Does Not Play Hard, and the 900 Square Feet Newletter
    Feb 21, 2025 – 00:34:30
  • Metaphors for Teaching Skills, App Solutions for Coaches, and Talent and the Secret Life of Teams
    Feb 14, 2025 – 00:32:19
  • Mastering the Triangle, What To Say During Timeouts, and What Drives Winning
    Feb 7, 2025 – 00:31:46
  • Training in Pairs: Differential Learning Ideas, When Your Team is Losing, and Think Again
    Jan 31, 2025 – 00:41:17
  • Teaching Blocking To Young Players, Keeping the Big Things Big, and TedTalks
    Jan 24, 2025 – 00:42:56
  • In The Lab with Sean Thomas: Analogies for Passing
    Jan 17, 2025 – 00:37:29
  • Ace Prevention for Young Teams, Train to Win or Train to Develop? and Mathew Houlihan
    Jan 10, 2025 – 00:35:34
  • Training Pursuit, Creative Subbing Plans for Bigger Teams, and Tod's New Book
    Jan 3, 2025 – 00:31:28
  • Innovative Techniques from the AVCA Convention
    Dec 20, 2024 – 00:39:38
  • Tod's New Book: The Volleyball Coach's Book of Lists
    Dec 13, 2024 – 00:47:41
  • Framing and Reframing, When Your Team Just Isn't Getting It, and Zdenek Hanik
    Dec 6, 2024 – 00:29:08
  • Yo-Yo Serving Games, Coaches' Self Evaluation, and The Founders' Book
    Nov 30, 2024 – 00:24:40
  • Russ Rose, John Dunning, and Terry Liskevych and Their New Book, Learn From the Legends
    Nov 22, 2024 – 00:33:47
  • At Home Playlist, 7 Mistakes Coaches Make in the Playoffs, and TorqVB
    Nov 15, 2024 – 00:34:05
  • Setting for beginners with just a ball and a wall, Preparing to play a team a second time, and Rob Gray's new book
    Nov 1, 2024 – 00:34:15
  • Hall of Fame Coach Peter Ogle on How and Why To Work Hard
    Oct 25, 2024 – 00:39:24
  • Improving hitting efficiency for hitters who don't have heat, Recover like a champion, and The MarcPro
    Oct 18, 2024 – 00:26:33
  • The Parent Pod
    Oct 11, 2024 – 00:47:31
  • Coaching in reality, When my team gets down they stay down, and Anti-Fragile
    Oct 3, 2024 – 00:29:44
  • The 46 Challenge Drill, The Tether Method for out of system play, and The Captain Class
    Sep 26, 2024 – 00:29:07
  • Training responding in your athletes, My team doesn't move their feet and balls are dropping, and The Out of Rotation Podcast
    Sep 20, 2024 – 00:25:03
  • Feedback 101: Finding Your Coaching Voice, Before club tryouts, and How To Change
    Sep 13, 2024 – 00:34:10
  • Beth Van Fleet on blocking, How Georgia State Beach selects partners, and Jeff Jansen's workbooks
    Aug 30, 2024 – 00:33:46
  • Itsy-bitsy Ideas for improvement, A no-nonsense way of standing out at tryouts, and Jordan Larson shows her character in Volleyball Magazine
    Aug 23, 2024 – 00:22:34
  • Early Season Priorities, The Olympics part 3, and Finding Mastery
    Aug 16, 2024 – 00:25:36
  • Talking less, The Olympics part 2, and Dan Meske on Instagram
    Aug 9, 2024 – 00:32:17
  • Sean Thomas on malleability in passing, what to check out from The Olympics, and HowStuffWorks.com
    Aug 2, 2024 – 00:30:38
  • Making Camp Great, Evaluating Your Practice Plan, and John Kessel USA Volleyball 6 on 6 Games
    Jul 26, 2024 – 00:27:01
  • Day 1 Practice Plan, Help Your Athletes Move Up a Team, and Top Dog
    Jul 19, 2024 – 00:35:33
  • Don't Train to Play (Play to Win), Tod's Book of Lists, and Soccer IQ
    Jul 12, 2024 – 00:29:13
  • Lessons from Tod's 11s, Starting with a New Program, and Avignon
    Jul 5, 2024 – 00:32:13
  • This or That
    Jun 28, 2024 – 00:43:11
  • 10 Skills To Have in Your Teaching "Bag", Ending the Season on a High Note, and Bites of Beach on Instagram
    Jun 21, 2024 – 00:29:25
  • The Balltime Team joins The VolleyPod to discuss their product and progress
    Jun 14, 2024 – 00:30:21
  • Making the end of the season fun and effective, Do's and Don'ts for when players miss practice, and AOC's Resources section
    Jun 7, 2024 – 00:32:34
  • Handcuffed Speedball Doubles, Starting a brand new volleyball program for kids, and The Playmaker's Advantage
    May 31, 2024 – 00:26:26
  • Get more kills from smaller teams, My players' parents are habitually negative, and VNL
    May 31, 2024 – 00:30:17
  • Guest Coach Eduardo Fiallos from University of Colorado
    May 29, 2024 – 00:39:00
  • Freeze Framing Part 2: Defense Continued and Offense, Developing Confidence, and The 48 Laws of Power
    May 24, 2024 – 00:30:17
  • Episode 106: Using "freeze framing" pt.1 serve receive and defense, Dealing with an aggressive front row setter, and Empathy vs. Sympathy
    May 3, 2024 – 00:28:58
  • Episode 105: Moving from a cutthroat culture to a competitive culture, Mid-season serve receive tune-up, and Volleyball Magazine
    Apr 26, 2024 – 00:30:13
  • Episode 104: John Mayer from CYBO on Serving ABC, Ideas for dealing with a frustrated player, and Mayer's top coaching resources right now
    Apr 19, 2024 – 00:43:41
  • Episode 103: Long court doubles constraints games, Playing up and playing down, and Powercore 360
    Apr 12, 2024 – 00:29:44
Recent Reviews
  • Mike from NEO
    Helps me get centered
    The podcast has helped a lot with drills and mindset training.
  • Ctcp98
    Great volleyball pod on coaching youth teams
    Love this pod, I coach 8th grade volleyball and this year I am trying a 6-3 instead of a 5-1 rotation by position. No longer specializing positions or putting up a block when girls can’t jump high enough to block anyways. Keep up the good work, it’s appreciated!
  • Alli Stiffney
    Love it!
    Great podcast-easy and quick listen with super practical tips and drills. Love the focus on cue words! But a warning-if you listen in public you might find yourself practicing your arm swing, reaching high, passing platforms, etc.. 🤣 I’ve been caught testing out their strategies multiple times while out and about listening to this podcast! ☺️
  • Dan Thomassen
    Best Volleyball Podcast for any level coach
    After 20+ years of coaching all levels, this is easily the best coaching volleyball podcast I’ve heard. Tod and Davis are extremely knowledgeable, have immediately useful tips for running a team, practice, or tryout. The format is smart and fun. I will continue to listen and assign to all coaches in our program. Enjoy!
  • Coach-dad
    Great format
    This has quickly become my #1 volleyball podcast. The format is wonderful and as a AOC premium member it makes it easy to view the videos that are referenced. Keep up the good work. I will be spreading the word.
  • HousendaHouse
    Crucial Resource
    I shared this podcast with some coaching friends and after every episode we call or text each other and talk about the little things we got out of the episode! Also, listening forces my brain to visualize what they are talking about which opens up new levels of thought for me as a coach. I highly recommend all coaches tune in!
  • _m
    Listen in on two great coaches talking tactics and techniques
    This is so exciting… it’s a couple great coaches from Art of Coaching giving great tips and advice on teaching different aspects of the game, along with pointers to videos from AOC to see the drills in action. Tod and Davis are brilliant and have a ton of experience coaching players and building teams. If you’re a new coach or one looking for new wrinkles to teach skills to your kids, you couldn’t find a better pair supported by better material out there. Looking forward to new episodes!
  • olivia_ouli
    From coach to coach
    What an amazing resource! Thanks!
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