Beach Coach Certification
$150.00
Beach volleyball is NOT just indoor volleyball in the sand. It’s a unique sport with distinct rules, scoring, skills and strategies. Players must also contend with the environmental elements of sun, sand and weather. Because of this, you simply can’t coach beach volleyball the same way you coach the indoor game.
In the Beach Coach Certification, you’ll get more than four hours of beach-specific training from UCLA head beach coach Stein Metzger, a former Olympian and top AVP player who also happens to be one of today’s best collegiate beach coaches who guided the Bruins to back-to-back NCAA championships in 2018 and 2019.
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Discover the Secrets of Coaching the Beach Game
Beach volleyball’s popularity is exploding, and it’s getting more competitive each year. If you want to gain an advantage, now is the time to elevate your coaching skills before the other programs catch up. Whether you’re brand-new to coaching or you’re a coach who’s transitioning from the indoor game, the Beach Coach Certification will deliver the tools you need to run an effective beach practice, prepare athletes for competition, and develop a winning program.
Topics include:
- Differences in beach from indoor
- Top 11 rule differences
- Building the individual player
- Building the basic program structure
- How to create pairs & teams
- Wind ball basics
- Skills training
- Drills
- And more!
Key features
- Stein’s Beach Toolbox: Dive in for valuable tips from one of the best coaches on the beach! From planning practices to creating perfect pairings, you’ll learn what it takes to develop a winning program.
- Drills for the Sand: Hearing information is one thing, but watching it in action is even better. Watch over 70 minutes of beach drills specifically designed to improve skills, systems and communication.
- 24/7 “Members Only” Forum : Go one-on-one with fellow coaches as you work through the course. With exclusive 24/7 access, you can ask questions, share ideas and connect with peers anytime you want.
The whole package:
- 4+ hours of beach-specific instruction
- 8 core modules
- 27 video lessons
- Transcriptions of each lesson
- “Test your knowledge” quizzes with each module
- “Members only” access to the Beach Certification online forum
- Status as a Certified Beach Coach
- A digital badge for use on your website, social media platforms and other communication vehicles
- A digital certificate you can print, frame and display in your home, office or gym
12 reviews for Beach Coach Certification
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David Perkins –
Great course. I will probably review some of the sections several times. The wind section was very informative.
Stew Arevalo –
I truly learned a lot from Stein. The module on the wind influencing the game, as well as the teachings on how to pass the ball depending on where the server is serving from along the endline, was very enlightening.
I truly would recommend and encourage this course to anyone that is training juniors players and even collegiate players, or more seasoned players.
The course provided me with fresh ideas, as well as new spins on methodologies on how to train a few of the skills that I was already training before.
Pam Davis –
This course has great content. I liked the usage of white board and watching players perform the drills. The information on dealing with the wind was exceptional. I highly recommend this course.
Neil Hokanson –
The course covers technique, strategy, training and intangibles like culture in a very clear fashion. Stein has a great communication style.
Marco Garcias –
I am coaching beach volleyball in Portugal for about 15 years (not as a professional coach) but with young and senior athletes and I enjoyed a lot your course. Just a small recommendation: more specific drills about some fundamentals. e.g., serve drills, attack drills, block drills. But CONGRATULATIONS, I really loved to do this course. The way you talk and explain make things very easy to understand. Thank you so much!
Karl Wideman –
Amazing course. Metzger has so much knowledge.
Mickey Caughey –
This was the kind of course I needed. I’ve wanted to start a beach program at my high school for a long time. Our CIF Southern Section is going to start a girls beach volleyball program that will be sanctioned as an official CIF sport next year. I plan to contact my Athletic Director and School Principal to let them know about my Beach Coach Certification from the AOC, and of my years of playing in beach volleyball tournaments. I plan to ask them if we can start a girls beach volleyball program next year. The interest is there as several of the girls from our indoor teams have definitely let me know they want to start a beach program. Maybe the cards are lining up now? The one thing I would have preferred in the course would have been to have the videos show all the players on the court so I could see what each player was doing on the court in one full take. That way I could see what each person’s responsibility was on the court and could see exactly how the drill was run. But it’s still a great course!
F. Ray Vance –
Quality information – As someone who’s been on and around the beach and doubles since 1992, this is the best course certification I have been a part of. Stein is a great communicator and shares great information and covers a lot of the elements that many clinics and training gloss over which is developing culture. Worth the time and expense. Would love to do a AOC Beach clinic if he does that at some point.
Chris Rice –
Good course – Covers a wide range of topics. It really helped organize my thoughts and put specific words to concepts I knew but had some trouble explaining.
Claude LeClerc –
More for those with less experience at the beach game. There is a lot of information for inside players/coaches who need a crash course on the beach game. Being a beach volleyball player for more than 30 years, I did not learn a lot. On the technical part, there are questions in the quizzes that are explained later on the course, the camera views of some drills are not helping on understanding the (sometime too long) explanations that comes before. I so wanted to like this course… after I took the setter and the head coach certifications, which are really well done and helpful, I was expecting more from that one.
Coach Julio Rodriguez –
Excellent!!!
Linda Lunnen –
I run a juniors grass doubles program which is growing and developing. We also travel to play in the sand. This course helped to expand my understanding of the beach volleyball game. It also improved my confidence and my ability to teach doubles to my players. Thank you!