Awareness by coaching in a top-level university women’s volleyball team:

A case study using episode description

Abstract

    This practical case study for coaches presents a scientific investigation of a single coaching practice using the qualitative method of episode description, which assesses the background of an episode and the episode itself and draws considerations from the assessment．The subjects belonged to a womenʼs volleyball team that belongs to the first division of the university volleyball federation in which the researcher is involved as a coach．The focus of the observation yielded an episode labeled “What are your aesthetics as a spiker ?”
    This finding revealed that the researcher, in his role as coach, tend to be blind when faces on the scene of coaching and yielded the consideration that “Repeat inquiry into oneʼs own coaching philosophy and sense of ethical practice is warranted.”