The VolleyPod presented by The Art of Coaching Volleyball
Aug 14, 2026 · 29 min · 15 segments
Support **The Volley Pod** by engaging with us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/thevolleypod In this episode, Davis and Tod explore the art…
In one form or another, how you're doing it is what we're gonna talk about, and there's all sorts of different ways to do it, and there are some better practices, okay?
... because I think this is probably, you know, we think about under-taught volleyball skills.
I think from a coaching standpoint, cuing is probably an under-taught coaching skill, so.
... is cuing, right? So can you be good at it as a coach? And I think there is more to it than people think about a lot of times.
The first one is the simple idea that lead cuing is better than post cuing, okay? And I'm the worst at this.
But when you can say what to do before they need to do it, especially just before, that is very powerful for shaping behavior.
'Cause there's so many things that have to happen to recreate that similar situation.
There's all sorts of reasons why, but if we could be great at lead cuing and, and terrible at responding to what happened, we would be well off as coaches.
In one form or another, how you're doing it is what we're gonna talk about, and there's all sorts of different ways to do it, and there are some better practices, okay?
... because I think this is probably, you know, we think about under-taught volleyball skills.
I think from a coaching standpoint, cuing is probably an under-taught coaching skill, so.
... is cuing, right? So can you be good at it as a coach? And I think there is more to it than people think about a lot of times.
The first one is the simple idea that lead cuing is better than post cuing, okay? And I'm the worst at this.
But when you can say what to do before they need to do it, especially just before, that is very powerful for shaping behavior.
'Cause there's so many things that have to happen to recreate that similar situation.
There's all sorts of reasons why, but if we could be great at lead cuing and, and terrible at responding to what happened, we would be well off as coaches.
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