It's awareness of what others are feeling in the group, and you c- like no matter how much of a, you know, aware you are of others and like you can't really have a strong sense unless you're in there and asking questions and, and on a daily basis.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'd say with all aspects, all the above, and the more you ask questions, the more people feel like they can be honest and open with you.

I mean, that's a huge piece of it too.

Like, are you just getting what they think you wanna hear, or are you able to, um...

Yeah, be like, I genuinely, I, I've, I'm just, I'm super c- I'm just curious.

Like, what's the hardest part for you about coaching today?

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... what, what happened? Just, just curious, you know, fill me in.

You know, I, I know, I know you, you care so much to be here.

Just, uh, instead of...

I think initially, like when I first started coaching, I'd just, yeah, maybe the person would be on the lot, you know, you gotta run or whatever, like some sort of punishment.

And so as I've, I've evolved, that's some of the motivational interviewing, just be curious and try to understand like what happened, you know.

I, I really do want to understand and, and try to come up with a solution how it can be fixed.

And you c- like no matter how much of a, uh, you know, aware you are of others and like you can't really have a strong sense unless you're in there and asking questions and, and on a daily basis.

You know that.

I had an incredible college coach, Marv Dunphy.

He coached in a couple Olympic games.

He won a gold medal.

Pepperdine is a tiny little school, and we won a national championship when I was there.

And he would say something, individuals never lose the desire to be treated like individuals.

And I think that's just the first principle, I suppose, just that the appeal is to create robots and systems are really nice, but to treat everyone the same, like I'm going to have the same cookie cutter, you know, movement solutions for everybody.

What's your thought on that?

Um, but I still think that takes away from just their own adaptability.

Yeah.

We've had some discussions on that.

If Franz Bosch will use the language of a tractor, I think it's sort of a synonym.

I mean, it's a little different than an invariant invariant feature, but, um, I know he says you don't want to cue an attractor.

Those emerge.

If you're going to throw the ball hard or if you're going to throw a javelin or if you're going to spike, you have to get to this 90 degree position.

Yeah.

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You had 15 in the lineup? Not in the lineup, but...

Yeah, we had 17.

One who was out all year, so we had 16 who were eligible to practice.

Yeah, I think we went a little bit different this year than past years in that we definitely have...

Maybe some differences in our, I guess everyone does, but some jumps in our talent level and even just the amount of blockers.

We went much more towards in training, keeping our top players on the same courts.

Like in the past, we would do a lot of, if you won, you'd move up a court and it just kind of randomly people would play against each other.

Smooth sailing.

offense and just hitting the cones and i was like oh man like i could do this up there but with my wife like i wanted to be able to compete and so i don't know i think the playing against the defense and making those decisions and reading i guess so important um at any level but i mean for me that was like what i just longed for because like hitting a bunch of high lines with no defense open net didn't feel like it was really challenging me or getting me much better

To the original question, yes, coaching a beginner and an intermediate and an advanced and an elite player, it's all different.

You're going to approach it differently.

A beginner, you can do almost anything and they're going to get better.

They're going to get way better in a small period of time.

There's going to be more effective ways and less effective ways, but...

Hopefully, you just don't turn them away from the sport.

Might be