The exact training framework I used to go from a junior player to a Paris 2024 Olympian, and how you can use it too.
The high-leverage training inputs that separate high performance elite athletes from everyone else, and how to apply them at any level.
How to structure your practice time so every hour on the court compounds your improvement faster.
My personal framework for reading the game, making faster decisions, and executing under pressure.
Why most players plateau, and the mindset and training shifts that will get you past your current ceiling.
Whether you found me through a beach volleyball highlight or a coaching recommendation, I'm glad you're here. I started Miles Partain VolleyKnowledge because I asked myself: what did my younger self actually need?
Most people don't know this, but young Miles trained mostly at home. It wasn't the club volleyball practices or the volleyball tournaments. My dad built us a backyard court and tossed balls for hours, but he was a basketball guy, not a volleyball one. There was no one to review my film who'd already walked the path. I pieced it together myself, year after year, taking the long way to D1 First Team All-American and eventually the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Then on January 7, 2025, the Palisades fire took my childhood home. Strangely enough, our backyard volleyball court was the only thing left standing. I don't think that was an accident.
Since then, I stepped back from the pro tour into a full time job helping with my dad's business Homefront LA, and I had to learn how to train around a full-time life. Every rep had to count. I train differently now than almost any player I know.
What I needed back then was a high performance coordinator: someone who knew what to fix, why it mattered, how to fix it, and how to design my training plan across the full scope of a volleyball journey.
Now I'm giving back everything I learned along the way, on the road back to LA28 in my hometown.
