True! I believe excellence is a delicate balance between different qualities that work in synchrony. Too much of something and lack of other things creates lopsideness that doesn't end up as good as it could be..!

Entertaining, fun and impressive volleyball is just that, entertaining, fun and impressive! 🙃

Hahaha! 😅 It is definitely way more fun to watch!

Thanks! Absolutely! It's been a great "journey" to see him develop all the way from a kid to now beating everyone, and super fun that he still found the time to do an episode also! :)

EDIT: This reply is very long, and someone pointed out the irony of that as an answer to a comment that says my episodes are too long. So here's a short version: In my opinion, podcasts are basically never too long if listened to in the background while doing other things (when podcast listening is integrated into your lifestyle in smart ways), but basically always too long if listened to by just sitting down to watch the episode. Therefore my well intentioned suggestion is to explore new ways of consuming podcasts which will also unlock the benefits of longer episodes. Usually this makes the consumer actually wish episodes were longer rather than shorter. I will soon release a few videos/podcast episodes on how to do this in the best ways I have found, for those interested. Cool, now that that's out of the way, here's the original reply: Heyy! First of all, thanks a lot for a thorough piece of feedback, I really appreciate it and it really helps! This will be a bit of an answer also haha, it might sound partly defensive at first but I think it will make sense in the end! Soo I both agree and not with your feedback, or I mean, I agree with it, but I think we have a bit of a different view on how to "utilize" a podcast episode, so let me just quickly give you an overview of how I think about it and then I'll get back to your details you shared! So in my mind, and the way I listen to podcasts, is not at all the same way I watch KZfaq videos. Podcasts for me, is something I listen to in the background while doing other stuff (mostly commuting for me, but sometimes while eating, cooking, showering etc), which for me removes the aspect of being too busy to listen to an episode. I would very very rarely sit down and watch a podcast episode in the way I watch a KZfaq video. Also I'd be listening to it in a podcast app that saves the position in the episode if you pause it in the beginning. So for example a 1.5 hour episode I might listen through in 3 days with 30 minutes of commuting every day, once I reach my destination I just pause it and next time I pick it up and rewind it a minute or two to remember where I left it (some podcast apps even do this automatically), and then over time I make my way through the episode. The interesting thing is that when I listen in this way, I often find episodes to be annoying for being so short and to the point, because I feel like a lot of interesting ways the episode could go if a bit of natural conversation was allowed in gets missed out on. But I definitely think there are different ways of listening to podcasts, and they are all valid. I am myself though a huge fan of several hours long podcasts that are able to go really into some deep and interesting corners because of the not stressing about how long the episode becomes (I guess Joe Rogans podcast could be one example here, he makes very long episodes and it is one if not the most listened to podcast so I think I am not completely alone in this viewpoint.) But it really requires the different strategy of listening to it to become realistic. Actually ever since I started my podcast (at first I just had a KZfaq channel where I got severely "punished" if I was not kinda quick and to the point) I have been planning to release sort of a guide on how I think one can get the most out of one's podcast listening. I actually think this is what I will release next in my project, and I hope it will give all my episodes more listens when more people realize how easy it actually is to listen to countless of hours of podcasts once one builds it into "dead time" in one's daily life. But we will see what the outcome will be I guess! Now that all of that has been said, I will still take your points and think about them. The talking while the other guy is talking point is of course something I should stop with if it has no purpose and is just annoying, I'll relisten to this episode with that in mind and see if I catch myself doing that. What I'd like to ask though (if you don't mind) is if there is any chance that it was annoying in this episode because of the slight lag in an online video call? In a face to face conversation (which I am honestly much more comfortable doing) I feel like talking slightly over each other becomes much more natural, tolerable, manageable and "flowy", compared to an online call. In the online call both the sound is a bit worse (makes it actually more hard to hear what the other person is saying, as you are having the conversation), and the delay sometimes makes both people start talking at the same time which can be really annoying, both as you are having the conversation but of course also for listeners. If this is the case, I should probably have a bit of a different strategy when doing online recordings vs face-to-face recordings, so far I have just done what I do in a face-to-face conversation regardless of how the conversation is recorded, but I might need to change this strategy and adapt to the recording reality for every episode. I always strive to record my episodes in person if possible for this reason and sound quality reasons, but then of course reality is that this is not always possible. Then regarding not sharing stories of myself or my perspectives on things: I am not sure. Again personally the podcast episodes I tend to enjoy most are more like "conversations" where all parties share and riff off of each other, rather than "interviews" where one person is there only delivering questions and the other person is answering these questions. I feel like in some previous episodes (especially ones recorded face-to-face) this has lead down to some really interesting and insightful rabbit holes that honestly neither me or the guest could have gotten to alone, it is like the conversation becomes a collaboration in an investigation process, which is something I personally value a lot both in other podcasts I listen to (that also do this) as well as in my own episodes. There is for sure value in both approaches, but I guess I am just sharing my perspective here and explaining why I have been doing it this way so far, and that it has been a deliberate plan by me. Whether it is good or not is I guess in the eye (ear?) of the beholder haha.. So anyway, I hope this makes some sense! The timestamp feedback I have gotten earlier, and I have actually done it on some of my content, but maybe I should look into it more. I also have plans on chopping some topics out from these long episodes and posting them as individual shorter videos, that's just something I haven't gotten around to doing yet, I guess my priority has been to first and foremost try to make people realize how the timesaving stuff is not needed anymore once one listens to podcasts in a way where that is not an issue (so I have for example worked on creating this podcast listening guide that I talked about.) Regardless, thanks a lot for the feedback. Feedback is my main way of bettering myself at what I do (both in coaching and running this online project) and it really warms my heart when I see that people care enough to actually take the time to write out these pieces of feedback for me. I hope I also convey a picture of being someone who listens to it and learns from it (both in my answers but also future actions) to a reasonable degree. I often struggle with deciding what to prioritize when building out this project, there is unlimited of things I "should do" but only limited time, so I always need to "bet" on what I think will give the best outcome considering my vision for the project and my goals, and unfortunately let the hundreds and thousands of other ideas be for the time being.. I also know that I often do things that don't seem to make sense for other people because I have very long term visions for this project and sometimes one has to sacrifice some short term gains for setting things up properly for the future. But all this feedback gives me more "meat on the bone" to make these decisions. Regarding the uncomfortable topics and sending questions to people beforehand, I agree. This episode was the first time I encountered the "uncomfortable questions" part to a bigger degree, so I guess I was more of a beginner when recording this episode. I'll try to be more mindful of this in the future though, and adapt my strategy depending on who is guesting the show! :)

I think some of these are really good suggestions, but the length of the podcast is great for me as I listen to them on my drives, when working out at the gym, or when working on the computer. Otherwise having questions prepared for the interviewee to review beforehand/prepare for and time stamps are great. i use time stamps for some podcasts with consistent topics that I'm interested in but have other discussions I don't care about. This could be done with this like "Connection to LearnBeach VolleyballFast" "Jump Setting" "Serve Receive" "Hand Setting in Game vs Practice" "etc." So far loving the podcast myself and a structure to it with background -> Volleyball Lore -> Volleyball Techniques -> Volleyball Pop Culture -> etc. for each guest could work. You'll have a consistent product I guess. I don't produce podcasts, just consume. @LearnBeachVolleyballFast none of the above is a critique of this episode or what you should do, just discussing podcasts in general and using yours as an example :)

@@Itstime1231 I really appreciate this! So just to try to understand (since I don't really use timestamps myself in my listening), if there is a podcast you know consistently has a part of the episodes that you like and another part that you don't care for so much, this is when you become a timestamp user? Is that correct? :)

@@LearnBeachVolleyballFast yes exactly. For me - can't talk about others - two I listen to have question and answer portions by the hosts/guests from the listeners, so I listen to those then maybe other topics that interest me. Just an example, not saying how it should be done. For the most part I don't use time stamps too much either.

@@Itstime1231 Thanks! Really appreciate it, individual viewpoints are valuable. And there really seem to be many different ways people consume podcasts, probably impossible to make everyone happy as always haha.. Anyways, thanks!

Hey! Thanks, and thanks for the feedback! I have now both added timestamps, and found a more enjoyable method to create timestamps, so who knows, maybe I'll have to start adding them into future episodes! :)

Hahah, thanks! :)

Haha I wouldn't mind! My guess is they are very busy, but I am going to Stockholm for a bit soon, maybe I should ask.. An in person episode would be gold over the Skype stuff!

@@LearnBeachVolleyballFast yeeaah absolutely thank you 🔥

@@danielecanghiari haha we'll see what I can do..!

Agree! Would be super fun if a jumpsetting team took home the big prize! We will see I guess! :)

Thankss! 😁 Hope to break 10k this summer and really get things to a new level! And yes, SoCal would be fun to come back to one day, was manyyyyyy years ago at this point..!

Thankss!! 😀 Was there something in particular that was extra good that I should do more of in the future?

@@LearnBeachVolleyballFast I think what you did with differentiating Pro and intermediate level is gold , most of what applies to pros don't apply to anyone else , even advanced and elites

@@ddavidpanah Yess! I thought that was kinda important to point out.. I mean I personally love hearing thoughts from the highest levels, but then starts a process of "should I do that already?" or "should I save this until later when I have maybe done X first?", which I think is a pretty interesting process! Anyway, glad you appreciated that! :)

@Learn Beach Volleyball Fast that's right brother , thinking of whats applicable and applies to the individual rather than following blindly , I liked the open quieting regarding gym work too , people think pro do loads of jumps and plyos but the fact is that they don't, it's Instagram that's misleading

@@ddavidpanah Haha yep. If there's one thing I wish my project makes people do, it's reflection. Is this true? Is what I do the best way forward for me? Am I following advice tailored to me or generic advice? Does this advice make sense to me, my situation, my body, my skills, etcetc. It's hard to get things right as long as we are asking the wrong questions.. 🤔

Thankss! Was there something specific that was extra interesting? :)

@Learn Beach Volleyball Fast a lot of great insight, but i really think young players need to hear the part about defense. Most coaches tell players to sit until the contact is made, but i agree with david that that doesnt work against good players. Against good players you need to decide and get a head start otherwise you will never touch the ball. 👍🏼

@Learn Beach Volleyball Fast i was hoping you would ask about his armswing. I teach my students his armswing because i feel it works best because of these reasons: 1. Best to Hit with max overspin 2. Low arm position translates better to shots 3. Low arm position allows him to hit at sharper angles becuz it's easier to hit the side of the ball. 4. Low to high attack takes the net out of play for shorter players. 5. It's easier on the shoulder than bow&arrow. What are your thoughts?

@@menehunebvb First about the defense: Yes, I agree. But I personally also agree a bit with learning to sit still.. I think a lot of new players if they never learn to sit still and "react" in a relaxed and quick manner, actually lock themselves up if they try to read too much. My personal belief though is that these top level defenders already know how to be in that relaxed "quick reaction" state so subconsciously that they barely even know what the alternative way is (that a lot of less skilled players end up in.) So ultimately I think a pro level defender knows how to be relaxed (or let's say maybe their body knows, they might not even realize consciously this is a skill they have if they have had it all the way from their childhood) even though they are reading. But I actually personally think that a defender that knows how to be relaxed and react quickly but not read is a better defender than the one who reads but is locked up (they are both worse than the defender that can both read and be relaxed.) I don't have any sorts of stats backing this up though, it is just my perception of things so I could of course be wrong here. Ultimately I atleast personally try to teach players both aspects, with the goal to in the end combine them both. I hope this makes sense, and I'd love to hear your thoughts on my ramblings here!

@Learn Beach Volleyball Fast i get your point. Over reacting is not good either. If you are relaxed you have a chance of reversing course some times when needed 👍🏼 personally, im good at reading so i rely on that a lot. And the group i play with is really good at moving the ball all over the court so if i sit until contact on a good set i wont touch the ball. I definitely sit on bad sets though.

Hope you enjoyed the episode! :)

He is..! Laura would be super fun, you don't happen to have any contact to her? :)

@@LearnBeachVolleyballFast Hi, only through instagram! It would be really amazing!!! Especially since she is about to play on Edmonton!!!

Haha I like this question! I of course have theories and guesses, but they should be left at that, I don't really like talking about other peoples stories at least when I only have limited insight into their backgrounds (I see some similarity between answeringthis question and gossiping, and I try to avoid gossiping), but I think I can still hopefully answer in some semi general ways that bring some value. So if I have understood things right, David had a very broad sports background as a kid, developing him into an athlete in many different ways. One way to look at this would be to say that his "movement library" has been broad already from the beginning. This then makes picking up new sport movements quicker/easier because the body already "sort of" knows how to do the thing. This is consistent with studies about early vs late specialization and how good athletes become in the long term (kids who try a lot of different sports and do not specialize super early tend to get more success later in life and have less injuries as far as I can remember the study conclusions), and with theories when it comes to "physical literacy". If you compare that to me for example, I spent 95-99% of my "childhood sport time" in skateboarding and snowboarding, sports that developed leg, foot and overall balance control a lot, but doesn't really require for example eye to hand coordination. I was sort of known to be not so coordinated with my hands as a kid, I could miss catching balls at times, didn't throw well, never more than low average in racket sports etc. So now in hindsight, it's no surprise that one of my biggest struggles in beach volleyball was serve receive, mt arms never had that deep coordination training that some people get in childhood, and it held me back for a long time. Now on the flipside, I found ways and methods that I believe can more or less completely develop those deep skills even in adults that didn't get this from their childhood, and those methods are part of what makes my coaching unique. One of the most consistent feedbacks I get from players I coach (especially private sessions, group lessons unfortunately tend to be a bit too shallow for the most groundbreakong changes to occur) is that I am able to help people actually fix the problems that other coaches over years and years have been able to point out to them, but not help them overcome them. Understanding symptoms is important, but until you understand the root cause of the symptoms, fixing things often don't happen, especially not in adults. Anyway, so I think David came into the sport at a young age, with a good broad and varied athletic background which seems to be consistent with long term success in sports in general. Another thing to his advantage is that he seems to enjoy it. If I remember right, in a Swedish beach volleyball podcast he said something in the style of that he is doing beach volleyball because it is fun and if it wouldn't be he wouldn't do it. Personally I 100% agree with this, life is too short to be invested into something you disguise (often when people aren't having fun in their sport anymore they not only think it's a bit less fun, but they actually often switch to like a dread almost), and I believe the person who enjoys training simply ends up training more and learning more than the one who doesn't enjoy training, on average. Lastly, like David mentioned in this episode, the integration with the Swedish coaches Rasmus and Anders, the whole jumpsetting playing style, and everything around that is probably the reason why David and Jonatan are competing among the absolute top teams in the world, rather than competing with maybe the top teams in Sweden and floating around somewhere in the relatively lower rankings on the world tour. Similarly to the Norwegian Topvolley school initiative, I think the Swedish initiative to find young talent and build almost like a "jumpsetting pipeline" of players is a great thing outside of the player's themselves control that end up pushing the level ofthe players to the next level. Here we just have to thank the previous generations of coaches and players who thought long term and wanted to try something different and created these initiatives, 15 year old athletes simply won't both develop themselves as players and come up with these initiatives and excecute on them at the same time, older generations of players and coaches are needed for it to happen. So thanks to Anders and Rasmus and the Norwegian Topvolley founders and everyone else doing this kind of work, the world would currently probably not see the level of beach volleyball it is seeing, if it wasn't for the work these people have put in in previous years and decades. I have some more thoughts on your question also, but some of it requires even more speculation on things that I don't fully know, and some of it is sort of trade secrets that I'll save for future online courses, so I think I'll leave things here for now and still hope this answer is insightful and valuable! :)

Thanks! I hope you enjoy the episode! :)

Yup, I agree. I "performed" quite badly on this particular one unfortunately, already started working on trying to not make that happen again! :)

My standing reach is 246 cm, David is 1 or 2 cm taller than me and probably around same arm length. My educated guess is 249 cm! 😅

@@LearnBeachVolleyballFastok thank you 👍🏻, can i ask how tall are you?

@@danielecanghiari 188 cm or 6'2!

Hahah saya di Bali sekarang! Kamu tinggal dan main di Gili Trawangan?

Yup I agree. I am not super happy with my performance on this one actually (unfortunately), I usually make sure that I am in a sense "grounded" mentally before I jump into an interview (or record a KZfaq video), but for some reason I think I sort of messed that up this time. Then I think doing the interview over an online connection with a bit of delay doesn't help either, I usually have a much easier time to get into the flow of the conversation in real life interviews. The planning for this interview was just the same amount as for my other interviews, which, if people consistently get the same feeling of unpreparedness from my side throughout my podcas, I should probably work on, but if it is only for this episode then I actually think it's other factors in the play.. 🤔 Regardless, can only try to learn from the mistakes and try to make things better in the future, and continue experimenting with the factors in play. Sitting down and doing another google session for podcast recording tips isn't a bad idea either. I definitely think I need to be more thorough with the "grounding" activities beforehand than I was at this interview regardless of if there is more stuff than that to fix or not. Anyway, thanks a lot for the feedback. These pieces of feedback force me to think and reflect, which ultimately becomes one of my best sources of learning.. So I'm very thankful for this even if it at times might sting a bit at first! :)