Clinic Updates And Passing Webinar

Dates and Vids

Hello all. At the bottom of this email, below the paywall, I have the link up for this past weekend’s Reception Systems Webinar. It was well-attended and had some of the best engagement of any webinar I’ve done, so it seems like you all liked this one. If you didn’t catch it, now’s a great time to become a Premium Subscriber and get access to this.

I’m working on the June webinar as well. I’ll do a similar theme where I link it to this month’s main topic, which will be In-System Offense. Let’s say tentatively for June 30th, but a change in the live event schedule could cause a shift there.

Speaking of Live Events, the Summer 2024 Seminars page is continuously updated, but I know some of you primarily interact with SmarterVolley via email, so I’ll lay out the latest updates here:

Dates Available:
Jun 08-09
Jun 15-16 (Richmond, VA GMS, public event, sign up through GMS)
Jun 22-23
Jun 29-30
Jul 06-07 (semi-open… needs to allow easy travel to Louisville area, I have a private event during the week… contact direct if you think it will work)
Jul 13-14 (Chattanooga, TN GMS, public event, sign up through GMS)
Jul 20-21
Jul 27-28 (Wilmington, DE, public event contact me directly to sign up)
Aug 03-04 (private event)
Aug 10-11 (holding… may open up)
Aug 17-18 (Chicago suburbs… Sunday is public)
Aug 24 (private event)
Aug 25 (will need to be in the Boston/Providence area)
Aug 31-01
Sep 07-08
Sep 14-15 (New Orleans area, public event, contact me directly)

You can see there’s still a few weekends open if you want to get me in your gym, but they’re filling up fast.

And if you can’t host an event? There’s 5 public events you can attend. The Richmond and Chattanooga events are the GMS curriculum, which I can’t recommend highly enough if you’ve never been. If you want to learn from me (and other, even better coaches) about how to coach the fundamental skills or organize your defensive system, these are great events.

Wilmington, DE will be 1 day of Running The Template and 1 day of Offensive Concepts.
The Chicago-area event’s public day will be Running The Template.
New Orleans will be an Offensive Concepts session.

Final item before webinar link, a big shout-out to SmarterVolley OG Peter Wong and the Halton Hurricanes. They just took home the U18 National Championship in Canada making it back-to-back for that group.

You can give this group credit for the Offensive Concepts seminar existing. I’ve been doing clinics for Halton for years and with this group I wanted to give them a little extra. So I said, “okay, let’s try to do 1 day of GMS-style fundamentals, like we’ve been doing, and then on Day 2 I’m going to try to take everything I’ve learned about offense in 10+ years of coaching at the pro level and distill it into a system that you can teach kids in 1 day.” And so, the Offensive Concepts seminar was born.

2 years and 2 championships later and yes Peter, I’m taking total credit. If any other coaches want to win back-to-back nattys, just get me out to your gym. After 1 day, your setter will be able to do this:

Okay, that’s not true. That will take at least 2 days.

But I will promise your team will be able to do annoying stuff like this when it’s 24-22 in a playoff match:

Okay, on to the webinar.