Saguaros Train the Trainer
WHY SAGUAROS VOLLEYBALL CLINICS?
Our volleyball clinics are designed for coaches who are training athletes at all levels of the sport, from young beginners to seasoned professionals. In addition, if you’re new to coaching volleyball this is without question the most effective way for you to get started. Lastly, if you’ve been coaching for 30 years, we’ll still teach you some new tricks.
NEW TO COACHING
If you’re a new volleyball coach, there’s no better place to start than with the Saguaros Train the Trainer Volleyball Clinic. Not only will we provide you with a solid foundation from which to start, but we offer on the job training.
OUR CLINICIAN
You will not find a better teacher when it comes to relating to your level of coaching. Although many of our volleyball clinicians have coached at the highest levels, including the Junior Olympic Games, we have also spent thousands of hours coaching at the junior’s level. We have undeniably been living in your world for over 30 years.
LEARN BY DOING
“I hear and I forget, I see, and I remember, I do, and I understand”. Attendees at our volleyball clinics can participate in drills, score-keeping, and other on-court activities which surely enhances learning. Additionally, this will help you better understand what your athletes experience when you ask them to make a change.
PRINCIPLES
We believe that coaching principles are liberating, not restrictive. Furthermore, sound coaching principles allows us coaches to build great systems around the abilities of our players. We rely on science, research, and experience (trial and error) to develop our principles unlike those chasing temporary fads.
SCIENCE DRIVES OUR METHODS
For over 21 years the Saguaros has relied heavily on science to help develop our volleyball clinic curriculum. Whether it’s hiring statisticians to help us determine the most important skills, or combing through thousands of data points to help our teams improve by 1 percent, science is a foundational component to our coaching clinic curriculum. Additionally, we believe that no science is settled science. As the game evolves, and as we learn ourselves, we continue to refine, tweak and adjust our coaching methods in an effort to get better.
THE SCIENCE OF MOTOR LEARNING
Motor learning is generally defined as a set of processes aimed at learning and refining new skills. It often involves improving the efficiency of mechanics and is certainly helpful with teaching complicated movements such as passing, spiking, blocking etc. At our volleyball clinics we walk you through how to implement the science of motor learning into your practice plans. Additionally, a deeper understanding of the motor learning concepts will simplify the way you coach and increase the rate of learning in your gym.
COACHING EXPERIENCE
While science helps us develop sound principles, volleyball coaches will still be faced with challenging decisions. Experience matters, and our advisory staff has plenty of it. With more years in the gym than we can count, our staff has tested countless methods, at all levels, with all genders. The ideas presented to you at our volleyball clinics have been refined and are proven effective regardless of the level you are coaching. Learn from our experiences, which, in turn, will shorten your own learning curve.
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