Looking for a good pair of beach volleyball sunglasses at a great price? So was I, and I think I found them. I finally decided that this season it was time to buy myself some new beach volleyball sunglasses, so I started shopping through the usual stores, looking at the usual brands, and it struck…
Month: April 2012
Brasilia Swatch World Tour 2012
Brasilia Swatch World Tour 2012 Todd Rogers and Phil Dalhausser have started the season as they finished the last one, winning the Brasilia Swatch World Tour 2012 FIVB event, but they did it the hard way after losing in the second round to Santos-Vitor Felipe. The big surprise was the second placed Fuerbringer and Lucena,…
USA beach volleyball showdown – a race to the Olympics
The race for USA’s second Mens Olympic Beach Volleyball qualification place is a tight one, and might come to a head in the play off for 9th in Brasilia! The current FIVB Olympic rankings show Matt Fuerbringer and Nick Lucena on 3,700 points while Jake Gibb and Sean Rosenthal are on 3,640 points, just 60…
FIVB World Tour Beach Volleyball – Brasilia Open 2012
Qualifiers have kicked off in Brasilia. With the women’s draw now complete there have been a couple of interesting results. Firstly two of the three qualifying Dutch teams have made it through, Van der Vlist-Mooren and Meppelink-van Gestel, both upsetting higher seeded teams in the final round. They will join Sanne Keizer and Marleen Van…
Defensive blocking drill
There is a lot to learn as a blocker in beach volleyball. This little video shows a training session I did last week working on a defensive technique that is very important to learn as a blocker. It deals with a situation where the attacker plays a poky just over the top of your block….