Beach PLAYER DEVELOPMENT 101 | Collaborating with Your Coach to Track Performance with Brian Hurler

Beach athletes must own their skill and strategy development to succeed on the court. Brian Hurler, Performance Analyst for the U.S. Beach National Teams, guides athletes through ways they can track their performance and meaningful analytics to guide their development as individual players and as partners. Hurler emphasizes the need to start with setting your own standards, to commit to tracking your progress on a skill for multiple weeks, to ask for the coach to integrate your goals within practice drills, and to maintain a growth mindset as you develop skills unique to the beach game (e.g., expanded footwork). 00:00 - Introduction 00:57 - Initial Analytics for Young Athletes 02:59 - A Simple Way to Track Progress 04:27 - Balancing Your Goals with Your Coach 07:39 - Key Differences: Indoor vs. Beach