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  • Beach Volleyball: Improving Your Speed on the Sand

    Watching the professionals perform beach volleyball is really amazing. Their pose is flawless, ball positioning is on spot and their power to get back from a very long rally is uncanny. They make the game appear very easy, however if you’ve ever attempted playing beach volleyball, you’ll realize that it isn’t. On the top level…

  • Understanding the Different Skill Positions of a Volleyball Team

    As volleyball players get even more focused on their game and participate bigger competition levels, they’ll realize that focusing on particular positions becomes an important component of their training and game. Higher-level volleyball teams start integrating particular skill sets, in which every player carries a certain part to play. Let us break down the player positions in…

  • What Do Coaches Look For During Volleyball Tryouts?

    In any levels from middle school to college, coaches try to find specific characteristics in the volleyball player. Particularly for volleyball club tryouts, coaches monitor the players utilizing some sort of rating system in the different sought-after elements of ability. Exactly what do volleyball coaches consider when searching for team tryouts? From our experience of coaching…

  • Im not at the beach but I still want to play volleyball

    Our top 3 places to keep playing volleyball when you are not at the beach. Whats better than playing volleyball on a beautiful summers day with a group of friends at your local beach. Whether its 2 on 2 or a fun group game with your novice friends, beach volleyball is always a hit. Unfortunately we can’t…

  • How to Improve Your Cardio for Beach Volleyball

    Beach volleyball cardio workouts must be integrated into all serious player’s training regimen. Getting good endurance is required on the volleyball court if you wish to become a successful player. Beach volleyball definitely isn’t a sport in which you are running long distances, however the fact is that endurance and cardiovascular performance could be one of the…

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