Ashley Clark is an American volleyball coach. She is currently coaching at Surfside - an elite club on the West Coast. She is also a co-founder of "bebettermedia," the one-stop shop of how to be a better version of yourself. We are ready to tackle hard-hitting volleyball subject matter today. Come ride with us.
03:57 - The grind of “Red Rock,” one of the biggest juniors tournaments of the year, you win or you learn
10:01 - Growth mindset, and the comparative to other approaches. Working with coaches at LMU with different philosophies, plus, why are we doing all the right things and still losing?
17:35 - Can studying theatre make you a better coach?
23:21 - Human design, and the application of athletics in general, and volleyball specifically.
41:01 - the transformation of kids asking and understanding the “why.” Good reading material like “chop wood , carry water.” Plus, more more Human Design dialogue
46:10 - 4 rules before applying “studies” to practice, how great coaches become great in the first place, growth mindset vs fixed mindset, and the false dichotomy of feeling you have to choose more than one.
52:50 - why a 2-hour practice is as exhausting as an 8-hour workday. Should we be practicing moves extensively that will not be used in a game as much?
57:38 - learning in practice and practicing what you learned, and the where, the concern of overloading the kid.
1:02:55 - how much of this game is mental, and how much is taught in practice, teaching 12's and 13's is "the lord's work"," how human design applies to leadership, voice, speech and touch of sound from a theatre perspective and how it helps for sports
1:28:46 - RE: the notion that momentum does not exist, human design in terms of putting it into action
1:38:40 - the old school concept of being a phone call away (we speak on the phone), Human design and how it applies to being organized or enlisting people who are organized.
1:43:33 - there is no such thing as "expert marksman", facts DO care about your feelings, how "retrospective action" makes you understand how you can move things that are in your way.
1:56:30 - she missed when it counts, then hit when it counts and the value of that journey
2:05:03 - the importance of the on-board meeting with the parents and players, plus, one more fun story
2:12:31 - the not-so-lightning rounds
