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Coach Your Brains Out

CYBO Coaching Coaches with Walt Ker

    Written by Nils Nielsen

    “Vision, vision, and vision.  These are the three most important skills when it comes to passing a volleyball.”  -Walt Ker

    Whether you agree or disagree, this is one of the fundamentals a coach would learn if Walt Ker was their mentor. How many of us have been lucky enough to have a mentor guide us along our coaching journey? If you’re like most, you probably started coaching as a side gig and realized along the way that you enjoyed the work. After a season or two you realized how unbelievably great you were at it, and maybe you went out and read a couple books. You probably talked to a few other coaches and realized that they weren’t nearly as great coaches as you.

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    Coach Your Brains Out

      In April of 2015, I started a coaching podcast with John Mayer and Nils Nielsen. We spent our first episode huddled over an iPhone talking about warmups. The conversation went all over the place and the audio was rough, but it was fun to get together and talk volley and different coaching ideas. I titled the podcast “Coach Your Brains Out” as a joke, thinking we’d come up with something better later. We never did.

      Over two years and one hundred and something episodes later, we’re still going strong putting out an episode a week. We usually record remotely now and our sound has gotten better thanks to some microphones. We’ve also added Andrew Fuller to the crew. It’s crazy to look at the list below and see all the amazing guests who’ve come on and shared with us. If you’re into coaching or playing sports (especially volleyball) then this podcast is for you. I’ve learned a lot doing this podcast; it’s made me a better player and coach. That’s why I still do it.Read More »Coach Your Brains Out