Beach Training

Float Serve: 1)       Left foot forward, variable distance behind the baseline depending on my intent for the serve. The harder I want to hit it the further back I stand. This also will increase the amount of distance the ball has to travel thus allowing for more float. 2)       Ball valve placed up or down [...]

Recovery is just as important as training hard. In fact, the harder you train, the more recovery you will need. We are currently in a light week in the gym. Generally speaking, every 4th week will be a light week. This means lifting at about 80% of the usual weight, and only doing two sessions, [...]

Training Wednesday night: cold and dark, but a very good session. The focus of the training was on passing the ball to the best spot for the setter. (Continuing our theme of improving our team setting.) By making a perfect pass, we are giving ourselves the best opportunity to make a perfect set. The first [...]

After skills on Saturday, we played a few matches against some guys we know. Again our focus was on Setting and serving. The result was very encouraging. We actually had several comments from our opposition about how few serves we missed. I see this as a direct result of the service routine systems that we [...]