Beach Training

The crazy Lacigas are back together for only the second time since Athens 2004 to play the Paris Grand Slam. Unfortunately they were knocked out in the first game of elimination. A similar story for Josh and Schachty, (Schacht / Slack) who beat Emanuel-Ricardo in the pool play. The big news for us Aussies was [...]

The South Australian Governments generous support of our sport (to the tune of about $5M) has secured 5 World Tour events over the next 5 years at our own Glenelg beach in Adelaide. I know what you are thinking… “why Adelaide.. nobody lives there….” but beggers can’t be choosers, I say. Let’s take what we [...]

I have to take my hat off to Natalie Cook and Tamsin Barnett, for winning their first World Tour event in Korea. The team Barnett/Cook, or Cook/Barnett, (as I’m sure they’ll be called everywhere they are printed in Australia) have really stamped some authority on the tour. Obviously there weren’t any Americans at the Korean [...]

What’s the story with brazil? How long are they going to dominate the sport? What’s their secret? Just check out the top 4 positions from Espinho. I hope you weren’t expecting answers to those questions…. If I knew them I wouldn’t be sitting at hom, drinking red wine and blogging about volleyball. I should add, [...]