HeyJaredThe Curious Polymath
This is my Substack of some thoughts and opinions. Short essays that I hope is long on insight and knowledge. Philosophy, the Smart Grid, teaching and coaching, cognitive sciences, politics, mathematics, electric machines and drives....among other things.
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What is Volleyball’s Counterpart to the Rondo in Futbol/Soccer? (opens the original)
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I read Doug Lemov’s book The Coaches Guide to Teaching (Lemov, The Coaches Guide to Teaching, 2020) a few years ago. Lemov centered his book on futbol/soccer, which is what he had coached and where he drew the examples. Futbol/soccer, however, is different enough from volleyball to made direct analogies challenging for someone trying to draw parallels, but coaching advice is universal and much of Lemov’s approach can be generalized so that they can be applied to volleyball coaching; indeed, his
Volleyball Coaching Life-My Dumbassery (opens the original)
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In my years as a club volleyball coach, I have had the opportunity to make some smart decisions, and of course, I have also had the opportunity to make some really dumbass decisions. I would like to think that law of averages applies so that the smart decisions cancel out all the dumbass decisions at some point and that I am in the positive by this point in my coaching, but I’ll be damned it I am going to find out for sure.I had many more dumbass decisions at the beginning of my coaching life, a
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