I’ve been coaching volleyball for a long time, at both the high school and club level. And like most coaches, I’ve accumulated years of drills, practice plans, training ideas, notes, systems, and things I’ve learned from other coaches along the way.
The problem was never a lack of information.
The problem was having that information where I needed it, when I needed it.
Planning practice often meant sitting down after a full day of work and trying to remember what we had done before, what worked, what we needed to work on next, and which drills would get us there. Some of those drills were in old notebooks. Some were buried in previous practice plans. Some were saved on my computer or phone. And plenty of them existed only in my head.
So every time I planned practice, I felt like I was starting over.
Then I would get to the gym and do it again - rewriting the practice plan on a whiteboard so the players and coaching staff knew what we were doing.
There had to be a better way.
The idea behind Blocq was actually pretty simple.
What if everything a coach needed to plan practice was already at their fingertips?
Your drills. Your diagrams. Your videos. Your notes. Your previous practices. Your training systems.
What if you could build that library once, add to it over time, and use it to put together your next practice in minutes instead of starting from scratch every day?
And once the practice was built, why should you have to recreate it when you walked into the gym?
That became the foundation for Blocq.
Build your drill library once. Organize your training material. Drop what you need into a practice plan. Adjust the timing, add your notes, and you’re ready.
Then take that same plan directly into the gym. Run it from your phone or tablet, print it, or broadcast it to a TV or smart board.
Plan it once. Take it straight to the gym.
Then we started thinking bigger.
Serving as a Director for a volleyball club over the last decade showed me another side of the problem.
Every club has an incredible amount of coaching knowledge inside it. Directors, experienced coaches, trainers, and staff members all have drills, systems, teaching methods, and ideas that could benefit other coaches in the organization.
But most of that knowledge lives with the individual coach.
When a new coach joins the club, they often start from scratch. When one coach develops a great drill or training progression, there isn’t always an easy way for another coach to find it and use it.
We wanted Blocq to help solve that too.
A club can build a shared library of drills and training resources that every coach can access. Directors can share information with coaches. Coaches can share with one another. And coaches can pass relevant information along to their athletes.
Instead of coaching knowledge being scattered across notebooks, computers, text threads, and individual coaches, it can become something the entire organization builds together.
And practice planning was only the beginning.
Once practice lives inside Blocq, there are other things we can make easier too.
Coaches can track results from competitive drills with Cauldron Stats. They can evaluate athletes after practice with Practice Ratings and follow development over the course of a season. Players can access their schedules, stats, ratings, goals, scouting reports, and other team information through their own portals.
Coaching staffs can plan together before they ever walk into the gym.
The goal isn’t to add more technology to coaching.
It’s to make the parts of coaching that already take time simpler.
Because most high school and club coaches aren’t just coaches. They have jobs. They have families. They have responsibilities outside the gym.
Their time matters.
If Blocq can turn an hour of searching, remembering, organizing, and rewriting into a few minutes of planning, that’s time a coach gets back.
And hopefully, it’s time they can spend doing more of the part they actually love:
Coaching.
That’s why we built Blocq.
Plan smarter. Save time. Coach more.
— Carl, Founder of Blocq