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Category: Volleyball
Improving Quads 3: Distributed Setting
Part of the Improving Quads series. As noted in the previous article, most beach quads teams adopt the “diamond” formation for both serve receive...
April 2, 2019
Role Model
The common refrain is that Southern California is the mecca for beach volleyball. Perennially good weather and nearly unlimited availability of courts, people have...
February 21, 2019
Build Up
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January 15, 2019
Courtesy Rules
In many communities where beach volleyball is played, some unspoked coed “courtesy” rules are occasionally in use. The most common form in doubles play,...
January 14, 2019
Sharing Volleyball Courts
Originally posted at http://drricky.net/volleyball/vb-courtsharing/ The abundance of public beach volleyball courts in Southern California is a pleasant anomaly. Locals usually do not have to compete...
December 4, 2018
Visualizing NCAA GPA data
On 5 Sept 2018, the NCAA Research team tweeted out this chart : It reports the average core high school grade point averages (GPA)...
September 6, 2018
Homographic terms
Many terms in athletic coaching are poorly defined yet form the basis of disagreements. For example, the word athletic is really not quantifiable, and...
August 21, 2018
Volleyball and Newton
I ignited a fierce debate a few months back by simply asking: “the higher you jump, the more force you land with, right? (Yes,...
August 6, 2018