Thanks must go to Hugh Nguyen for taking a great coach development session last night. Participants included three South Australian state team head coaches, coaches from the major volleyball school programs, club coaches, and even a school coach from Queensland who was in Adelaide for the holidays.
Huy in his clear meticulous manner discussed the new video delay programs available for coaches, and the strengths and weakness of each. This is clearly the way to make great gains in both individual and team learning.
It is a matter of concern to me that this development seems to be passing most coaches by without so much as a cursory glance. I think this “head in the sand” approach could well be a telling factor into the future. I can clearly remember the clear, quick, precise changes kids have made when seeing the type of feedback Huy was demonstrating. The cost to set up a club or individual coach is about the same as a used bag of old volleyballs.
The second part of the session was based on high definition stats and integrated video packages. The benefits were obvious. The view was that these should not be done by coaches while coaching but should be done by assistant coaches, parents or support staff. The high quality discussion revolved around the best cameras to use. The key fact to look at was the format the camera used with MPEG4 being the preferred option. Huy uses cameras costing way less than $200 (which is good seeing as he has six of them).
All in all, a great well prepared session Huy. Thank you on behalf of all the coaches present.
Cheers Eldo, was great to see the number of coaches we had who turned up to learn about an unglamorous topic in the interests of making their teams/players/programs better. Big thanks for organising the session!
Cheers Eldo, was great to see the number of coaches we had who turned up to learn about an unglamorous topic in the interests of making their teams/players/programs better. Big thanks for organising the session!
Also, i should note that I too was guilty of making my own parents take stats for the U15s team I coached in Albury Wodonga last year. I was also impressed last night by the stories of a number of coaches who had stayed up late on some occasions preparing video to give their team that extra edge or help heir players see something that could help them improve. We’ve all done it, but the VBStatsHD (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/vbstatshd/id575141935?ls=1&mt=8) stuff can really make it quicker now.
I am blogging about you again Eldo….beware….lol