Beach Training

The warm winds of Spring have arrived here in Sydney. It’s time to start pumping up the Mikasas and Wilsons, ironing our board shorts and getting stuck into those rotator cuff exercises. I have a feeling that this summer in Australia is going to be a memorable one.

So, to get the ball rolling, Victoria has announced their tour dates, so start marking your calendar:

Get more at VicBeach.com.au

Men

In the men’s tournament, we saw Rogers-Dalhausser right back on top, beating a new combination of Alison-Emanuel very convincingly; 0-2 (16-21, 12-21).

Hoyer-Soderberg had a good run finishing 7th and Lochhead-Pitman made a respectable 13th.

Mens results

We’ll have to do a little digging to find out if Todd and Phil have forgiven or forgotten the FIVB over last years bonus pool dispute but that’s a post for another day. I think we’re all glad to see them back.

Women

Germany has started strong with Goller-Ludwig taking 2nd place behind Larissa-Juliana in the Women’s even in opening World Tour Beach volleyball event: The Brazilia open.

Womens results

This is a great little drill that will help you to learn how to shoot a beach volleyball and see your opponent while you are making a shot.

The video shows it perfectly, sop not much to add apart from emphasising the importance of the coach in this drill. The coach should make big moves, so that he/she pushes the player to hit close to the line. It’s no good hitting a ball perfectly to the coach if he is standing 2 meters inside the side line. That is not the sort of shot you want to practice.

So if your coach is on the angle, make sure you practice your best sharp angle shot, not just an easy shot that the coach can catch. In most cases you don’t want to practice shots that land anywhere further than 50cm from the side line.