Jose Augusto Menegatti coaches the Brazilian national men’s volleyball team, currently ranked among the top four or five teams in the world (along with the national teams from the U.S., Russia, Czechoslovakia, and Germany). Jose was one of six Brazilians auditing the basic training taught by Gael Ohlgren nee Switzer and Michael Wm. Murphy, during June-August 1989 in Boulder. Nilce Broadway of Sao Paulo, an assistant in the class, served as translator for this interview.