If You Can’t Handle The Heat

Joe breaks down his German Cup Final and the lessons that come along with it. Life as an athlete can be very up and down both on and off the court, so we wanted to talk about how to handle those moments. How have we handled our biggest volleyball losses? How do you come back stronger? All these questions and more are answered on this weeks episode.

The boys welcome on Gabi Garcia Fernandez to talk about his insane journey from Puerto Rico, to BYU and now playing with and against the best volleyball player in the world. He gives all the details on what it is like to come face to face with your idols and the personal connections with each of them.

We welcome on Erik Shoji to talk about his summers plans and his upcoming Champions league matches.

The Orange County Crown is here! We teamed up with Mike Griffin and Bad Boys Volleyball to bring you the premier grass event in California! It will be held at Huntington Beach Sports Complex from June 4-5 and has a 15k purse. To SIGN UP or for more INFO go to our website outofsystem.net.

We welcome on a a long time teammate/friend of the show Colton Cowell. We dive into what he has been doing since the National Championship and the journey back from shoulder surgery. He is possibly playing in the most entertaining volleyball league in the world.. in INDIA.

We decided to delve into the world of Crossnet as we welcome on Co-Founder/CEO Greg Meade. The full story on how they came up with the idea is WILD!

We decided to bring USA Volleyballs sports psychologist/mental coach Andrea Becker. She has seen and coached the best volleyball players in the world, so naturally we picked brains about a lot. Volleyball is such a psychological intensive sport with so many different types of mentalities, styles and players, so how do you accommodate to that as a sports psychologist. We go through the best ways to handle adversity, how to bounce back after a rough match and the best ways to mentally approach the game. 

We have always tried to get different perspectives/roles on the podcast, so we decided to bring on our favorite ref Renee Marcellus! She has been reffing us since we were 12 years old and has been traveling the wold for international and national events ever since. BTW Joe and Micah are setters so they asked for a lot of tips on how to get their arguments through to refs haha. Typical setters...

This is long overdue, as we welcome on former ex Rainbow Warrior Taylor Averill. We get into right with the classic middle vs setter debate and things get spicy as we talk about what we think the best way to train.

Jason Hames(Nicklin Hames Dad) joins the pod and reunite with the Boyz again. Is Nicklin coming back?How do you handle conflict amongst players? How do you balance coaching and being a parent? All is answered on this weeks episode of If You Can't Handle The Heat!