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Awesome foot up

Sunday, May 15, 2011 14:52 No Comments

The video says it all. Check this crazy “foot up” out.

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Beach volleyball world tour Brasilia Open 2011

Tuesday, May 3, 2011 8:32 No Comments

Here we go! The final year of Olympic qualification. This year the FIVB World Tour will be super charged with every team battling for available Olympic positions. The 2011 World Tour kicked off last week in Brasilia and from first impressions, looks very much like the end of last year. In the Womens, Larissa-Juliana BRA [...]

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Australian Beach Volleyball Commission – NEW!

Monday, April 18, 2011 12:45 No Comments

We have just been forwarded a document from a group of prominent beach volleyball people who are creating a new organisation called the Australian Beach Volleyball Commission (ABVC). The idea here seems to be to get control of the sport of beach volleyball into the hands of the people who are actually involved in the [...]

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Is this a revolution in Hand Setting rules?

Monday, February 28, 2011 11:39 2 Comments

If the new rules laid out by the FIVB are interpreted by referees the way I read it, then anyone who learned to set a volleyball longer than two weeks ago is going to need to change their technique. Here is the opening paragraph of the new definition: “During the action of players setting overhand [...]

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