Aug 14, 2017
Neurosurgeons say if they practiced the way they did 18 months ago, they’d be sued for malpractice. Heart surgeons believe if they practiced the way they did 5 years ago, they’d be sued for malpractice. Yet, in youth sport coaching we still practice the way we did when we were kids.
John Kessel believes we should all be sued for malpractice because we have not evolved the game to meet the times. Do you agree?
Listen in on this thought provoking, information packed podcast as John shares an amazing amount of knowledge and has myriad quotable quotes in a short hour long podcast. Get your notebook out for this one!
Bio
Since 1985 John has been working for the National Governing Body of
the sport, USA Volleyball (USAV), now as Director of Sport
Development. He currently serves as the staff liaison for Disabled
Programs, USA Deaflympic Teams, Starlings USA, National Parks and
Recreation Assoc., the YMCA and over 30 other Affiliated
Organizations working with USAV. He is Secretary of the NORCECA
Technical and Coaches Commission, and Director of Development for
World ParaVolley. He was Team Leader for the 2000 USA Olympic Beach
Volleyball Teams in Sydney, which brought home one gold medal, and
for the 2004 USA Paralympic Women’s Sitting Volleyball Team in
Athens, which came home with the bronze medal. In 1995, Volleyball
Magazine’s special Centennial issue named him one of the 50 most
important people in the sport in the past 100 years. In 2013 the
American Volleyball Coaches Association inducted him as their 60th
member of the AVCA Coaches Hall of Fame.
John has been coaching since 1971 at the collegiate level or above,
including Women’s U.S. Open titles in 1986 & 1987. A sought after
international lecturer, he has conducted seminars in all 50 states,
and in over 50 nations, including China, Denmark, Bolivia,
Thailand, Qatar, United Arab Emerits, Cook Islands, Barbados,
France, Germany, Egypt, England, Italy, Argentina, Lithuania,
Japan, Iceland, Puerto Rico, Western Samoa, American Samoa, Canada,
Guatemala, Venezuela, Greece, Israel, Australia, Jamaica, New
Zealand, Holland, England, Belize, Trinidad Tobago, Ireland, Tonga,
Belgium, Haiti, Vanuatu, Costa Rica, Fiji, Poland, Nicaragua,
British Virgin Islands, Vietnam, and El Salvador. He is also a busy
author, with over half a dozen USAV books, including the IMPACT
coaching manual, the Jr. Olympic Volleyball Program Guide, and most
recently Minivolley 4 Youth, the Youth Coloring Book, and countless
articles. His blog called “Growing the Game Together” is the second
most popular blog of the hundreds found on the US Olympic
Committee’s Team USA website and he promotes the “Grassroots”
Button on the USAV website with material, videos, posters, and
information for clubs, schools, coaches, parents, players, and
officials. He has received many other awards, including USA
Volleyball’s Honorable Mention in 1978 and 1986, the Harry Wilson
Distinguished International Service in 2004, the George Fisher
Leader in Volleyball in 2006 and in 2007 was named a Sport Ethics
Fellow by the Institute for International Sport.
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Show Notes
2:45 “That which you teach, you learn” Why we should have more peer
mentoring in sport
10:45 The game trains the brain – Kids need to play more
18:25 Did your parents hire a “bike riding coach”? How’d you learn
to ride a bike?
21:00 If a surgeon practiced they way she did 5 years ago, she’d be
sued…
27:00 For this to work, Coaches have to show their own failure,
vulnerability, willingness to learn
35:00 To get in the best physical shape to play volleyball, you
should play volleyball…
38:00 Every time these hands touch the ball, they are going in the
end zone. That’s how I play.
46:00 Do we practice to look good in practice or do we practice to
perform in games?
53:00 Don’t, Try, and But are words coaches should eliminate from
their vocabulary
59:00 If you are always working on the personal “re”, you will be
happy and succeed
Get in Touch
Twitter: @johnkesselUSAV
Email: john.kessel@usav.org
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