Pareto Polo: Reverse Skull, Proper Body Coaching Language, and How Much to Charge
Welcome back to the Pareto Polo weekly Blog post. Today we are going to talk about the Player skill called reverse skull, the Coaching Skill of proper body language and the Business skill of how much to charge in your water polo business.
Player Skill
Reverse Skull:
This player skill might be a top 5 in the 80/20 play book. If you or your athletes have the ability to properly reverse skull, it helps you play defense, and lets you move properly on offense. Since videos and pictures are worth 1k words. Here is a video of the reverse skull.
You can see in the video that the athlete is able to move their body through the water with out swimming. The legs are making a bicycle motion and pulling water with the heels. The arms are skulling, pushing and pulling the water. For example if you were reverse skulling to your left:
- Your left hip and leg would be on top of the water
- Your right hip is pointed at the bottom of the pool
- Your right hand is extended out in-front of you pushing
- Your left hand is by your body pulling
The feet are pointing where you WANT to go. This skill can be used to play drive defense, get ready to hip over, move to a new position on defense, move with out the ball on offense to a new shooting lane and pop out from a position to shoot! Video credit goes to USA water polo and Dan Clute.
Coaching Skill
Our coaching skill for this week seems simple but you will see coaches all over doing it. Poor Body Language while coaching. See here one of the best coaches ever making the simple mistake.
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Bill is closing off his body. When you cross your arms like this it makes you closed off. Athletes are not going to want to ask you questions and probably not want to interact with you! If that is your goal though..... go ahead. I have caught myself doing this over the year and when I made a effort to stop, my athletes were more receptive of my coaching and came to speak with me more often.
Business Skill
This weeks business skill is how much should you charge for your coaching? First it depends on your area. Some places have a higher income base then others. Also you should never short change your time. In general you need to see how much your time in worth and go from there. The more athletes you have the lower you can charge to achieve this goal and vise versa.
Example:
You think that you should be making 25 dollars a hour coaching. Your club practices 2 hours a week. So you are working 4 hours a week, average of 16 hours a month. To make the 25 a hour you need to make 400 a month. That can be as little as 4 kids paying 100 dollars a month! But do not forget to factor in your pool rental costs, supplies of practice: caps, balls, goals and cones.
This is a super simplistic example. Work out how much you want to make per hour, factor in your area's income, pool rental costs and supplies cost.
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