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The Volleyball By Design podcast gives coaches simple, actionable, step by step strategies so you can get clarity in your coaching and apply what you learn right away.
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Monday Oct 06, 2025
Monday Oct 06, 2025
In this episode, we dive into a popular discussion regarding volleyball IQ. How can we, as coaches, improve our players volleyball IQ. In this episode we dive into 5 main strategies and a few others to help your players increase their volleyball IQ. We talk about:
- Volleyball IQ is game understanding + perception + decision making + anticipation
- Block Training vs Game Training
- Video
- Decision Making & Cues
- Types of drills
- Problem Solving
- And a few more key concepts
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Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
Tuesday Sep 30, 2025
This episode is a little different. Yes, you'll still get some value out of it as a coach for a variety of reasons but I walk you through my entire process for starting my ProAm Volleyball league. We dive into:
- My Vision
- Step By Step Process to Start
- Draft Combine
- Unique Rules
- Tickets
- Staff
- Coaching
- Etc.
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Reach out via Instagram @BrianSingh_CoachB
Monday Sep 22, 2025
Monday Sep 22, 2025
In this episode, I dive into the tactical aspect of serve receive and not necessarily the technical. Understanding how to tactically approach serve receive will help increase your sideout percentage. We dive into:
- Long Angle vs Short Angle
- Spin vs Float
- Different footwork
- Film
- Mindset
- Libero
- Seams vs Passing zones
- Increasing Sideout %
- Short Serves vs Long Serves
- And a few more key concepts
Click here to join Digital Volleyball Academy - www.digitalvolleyballacademy.com
Click here to join my free workshop - www.volleyballworkshop.com
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Reach out via Instagram @BrianSingh_CoachB
Monday Sep 15, 2025
Monday Sep 15, 2025
In this episode, I dive into the conversation regarding playing time and how it affects the culture of your team. We talk about:
- Dealing with players, parents and administration
- Volleyball Manual
- Popular scenarios on your team regarding playing time and culture
- Strategies to help deal with the playing time dilemma for coaches
- And a few more key things
Click here to join Digital Volleyball Academy - www.digitalvolleyballacademy.com
Click here to join my free workshop - www.volleyballworkshop.com
Reach out via Instagram @BrianSingh_CoachB
Monday Sep 01, 2025
Monday Sep 01, 2025
In this episode, I dive into some drill concepts as well as team and individual drills. These drills are vetted and proven and used by the best coaches in the world. We dive into:
- Fundamental vs Skill
- Block Train vs Game Train
- 6 Individual skill drills
- 7 Team Skill Drills
- Multi Skill Drills
- Performance Indicators
- How To Implement Progressions and Variations
- And much more
Click here to join Digital Volleyball Academy - www.digitalvolleyballacademy.com
Click here to join my free workshop - www.volleyballworkshop.com
Reach out via Instagram @BrianSingh_CoachB
Monday Aug 25, 2025
Monday Aug 25, 2025
In this episode, I share a list of items that will help coaches be more prepared and ready for the beginning of the season. We dive into:
- Equipment
- Planning
- Training
- Structure
- Reporting
- Meetings
- Etc.
Click here to join Digital Volleyball Academy - www.digitalvolleyballacademy.com
Click here to register for my free workshop - www.volleyballworkshop.com
Reach out via Instagram @BrianSingh_CoachB
Monday Aug 18, 2025
Monday Aug 18, 2025
In this episode, we are privileged to have on 2025 Libero of the tournament at the NORCECA Championships Quintin Greenidge where he not only dives into the technical and tactical aspects of being a Libero but tells us the insights from what the best coaches did for him to get him to the next level. He dive into:
- Serve Receive - Technical
- Defense - Technical
- Club
- Film
- Strength Training
- And a few more key concepts
Click here to join Digital Volleyball Academy - www.digitalvolleyballacademy.com
Click here to register for my free workshop - www.volleyballworkshop.com
Reach out via Instagram @BrianSingh_CoachB
Monday Aug 11, 2025
Monday Aug 11, 2025
At DVA LIVE 2025, there were amazing guest speakers that provided real insights that helped coaches with their teams. One of them was head coach Dan Lewis who had a great presentation about his planning process, player development, evolution of the game and so much more. In this episode, you get to hear some important points he made during that presentation in which you could apply to your team. He dives into:
- New phases of volleyball
- Guiding Principles
- A drill he uses every single practice and how you can cater it to your team
- Static/Block Training vs Game Training
- Stats
- Culture
- And a few more key concepts
Purchase DVA LIVE 2025 (All Video Replays & Access to all resources shared) - www.volleyballworkshop.com/dvalive2025
Join Digital Volleyball Academy at www.digitalvolleyballacademy.com
Reach out via Instagram @BrianSingh_CoachB
Monday Aug 04, 2025
Monday Aug 04, 2025
In this episode, we have the privilege of having 6X National Champion Jessy Satti on and he talks about how his club is the largest club in Canada and why they're so successful. He also talks about how he's gone to 9 18U provincial championships in a row. It's a great episode. We dive into:
- Keys to growing a club
- Retaining Athletes
- Seasonal Planning
- Practice Planning
- Phases of Training
- Top Drills he uses
- Setter work
- And a few more key concepts
Join Digital Volleyball Academy at www.digitalvolleyballacademy.com
Join my free workshop at www.volleyballworkshop.com
Reach out via Instagram @BrianSingh_CoachB
Monday Jul 28, 2025
Monday Jul 28, 2025
In this episode I share several strategies that you can use in games to adjust and give your team an advantage. We discuss:
- Match Prep
- Matchups
- Blocker Tendencies
- Serving Strategy
- Backcourt Defense
- Substitutions
- Offensive Plays
- Timeouts
- Setter
- And a few more key concepts
Join Digital Volleyball Academy by visiting www.digitalvolleyballacademy.com
Join my free workshop at www.volleyballworkshop.com
Attend my virtual coaches clinic at www.volleyballworkshop.com/dvalive2025
Reach out via Instagram @BrianSingh_CoachB