Beach Training

The FIVB has made some major changes to the way the olympic qualification system will work leading up to the 2012 olympics in London. A total of 24 teams will compete in each of the Olympic beach volleyball competitions. 16 will come from the FIVB world tour rankings 5 will come from the winners of [...]

Here are the results from the Victorian beach volleyball open for 2011. The mens division had an international flavour with our local foreigners Bo Soderberg & Kirk Pitman teaming up to defend their beach against the French brothers, Kevin Ces & Andy Ces and the german world Champions Jonas Reckermann & Julius Brink. Unfortunately the [...]

Some interesting controversies were reported from the QLD open, with light effecting play on the Saturday evening. Some games were stopped and had to be replayed the following morning. The most notable was the clash between Hinchley/Rohkamper and Palmer/Bawden. We are told that Hinchley/Rohkamper had 5 match points when the tournament director insisted that the [...]

The NSW Open 2011 was a hot, hot beach volleyball tournament. You can see some beautifully edited videos (nice job Raf) from of the semis and finals on the NBVA website. Mens semi final 1 – NSW Open 2011 Womens finals – NSW Open 2011 Here are the mens results: ———– Mens Beach volleyball NSW [...]