Webinar with Kåre Mol online
We announced the webinar with Kåre Mol at the beginning of the year, now you can watch the full 2 hours online on youtube:
We announced the webinar with Kåre Mol at the beginning of the year, now you can watch the full 2 hours online on youtube:
Former World Tour Player and IBVCA Coach Robert Nowotny celebrated his 47th birthday recently. Reason enough to get an article on the FIVB news site. Read it here:
https://www.volleyball.world/en/beachvolleyball/worldtour/2021/news/nowo-at-47?id=92104
Read here an article about IBVCA Coach Marco Solustri:
https://www.volleyball.world/en/story/solustri-even-after-five-olympic-games-coaching?id=92077
A few days before Christmas we have a real highlight for our followers: a video interview with Richard Lambourne. Lambourne is currently coach of US-Team Crabb/Gibb, but worked with many other american Top-Teams before that.
We hope to make more of these video interviews, let us know how you like this one in the comments!
Enjoy!
Angie Akers is currently the Head Coach for the USA Beach National Team of April Ross and Alix Klineman and previously led the Dutch Beach National Team of Madelein Meppelink and Marleen van Iersel to 4 FIVB medals (2 silver, 2 bronze) and a 6th place overall Olympic Ranking.
At this year’s AVCA Virtual Convention she will take us into the training process she is utilizing with April and Alix as they prepare for the Olympics. Coaches will see first hand how she develops and executes dills to promote improvement in elite athletes.
If you are interested find more info about the AVCA Convention here: https://avcaconvention.org/beach-education-track/
Scott Davenport was just voted Coach of the Year by his IBVCA colleagues. Read here an interesting article about his work as a coach.
The IBVCA Coach Awards for the 2019 season were held last night at the European Championships in Jurmala, Latvia! These awards are voted by our members and are based on the performances and/or development achieved by the coach and their respective team(s).
Best Coach Women: Scott Davenport
Best Coach Men: Slava Nyrka
Most Outstanding Improvement Men: Martin Olejnak
Most Outstanding Improvement Women: Genadijs Samoilovs
Dani Wood is one of the coaches on the world tour who worked with both genders at a high level. In this interview he answers how he worked with men compared to women and what he changed in his approach and what remained the same. If you are interested in switching from coaching men to coaching women or the other way round or if you just want to hear what an experience beach volleyball coach at the highest level has to say, this is a good read for you!
CONTINUE READINGDr George Giatsis is an Associate Professor in Kinesiology of Volleyball with an emphasis on Beach Volleyball at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He played for Greece on the World Tour and has been a top-level coach for many years in Volleyball and Beachvolleyball.
His current scientific project in Kinesiology is about the arm swing technique in spike attack in Volleyball and Beachvolleyball. He has analysed all the top players (male and female) since 1982 in Volleyball and Beachvolleyball in the major events of Olympic Games, World Championship and Champions League. He is focusing on differences in the movement during the cocking phase (arm movement from jump to “turning point” (elbow is back)).
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