American Beach Volleyball Club

Our coaching philosophy is encouragement based. We coach in the present and future, not in the past. We don’t beat athletes up for mistakes. We DO hold them accountable for effort.

We know that if our training is fun and positive, athletes will love the game. If athletes love the game, they will train passionately every day. If athletes give their best daily & are given good coaching information, they will excel.
Their habits developed as athletes will reflect in their lives as sons/daughters, students, husbands/wives, parents & citizens.

Our coaching provides structured play targeted at skill development, maximizing contacts, with score & reward.
We play as much as possible. Karch Kiraly, Hugh McCutcheon and others at the highest levels of USA volleyball emphasize that “The Game Teaches the Game.” The most productive use of limited training hours is playing the game of volleyball. Outdated old school techniques focused on isolations, repetitions and progressions, which don't transfer efficiently to actual play in the intricate game of volleyball. We structure our drills to look and feel like games kids play, meaning they are fun, competitive, maximizing contacts per hour, with a score and a reward for winning/losing.

Coaches provide encouraging, limited information & modeling during play.
We grow athletes from unconscious incompetence to unconscious competence (4 stages).
We foster an environment of fun, friendship, competition & opportunity– the best way to maintain long term high level work ethic