Beach Training

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]