The website Beachvolleyballspace covered the recent FIVB Gstaad Major with an article celebrating the winners, the currently top ranked Canadian team of Paredes and...
Volleyball for the rest of us
Earned or Found
I was having this discussion once about buying chicken. My friend was of the opinion that there are just superior sources of birds, and...
Improving Quads 2: Reduce seams
Part of the Improving Quads series. The convention of most teams in beach quads format is the “diamond” formation when receiving serve – the...
In praise of being quiet
“I need to talk more.” “Talk!” “We need to talk.” Verbal loquaciousness is almost universally valued on the beach volleyball court. Coaches punish juniors...
Falsifiability
In an earlier posting on detecting the signs of pseudoscience, I quoted an article which mentions unfalsifiability as a property. This is actually a...
A nuclear option
On the Facebook group Volleyball Coaches and Trainers (VCT), a coach shared a rule with regards to juniors beach volleyball tournaments held in the...
Recognizing Sports Pseudoscience
In a recent discussion with BJ Leroy of USA Volleyball, I encountered a paper by Bailey et al (2018) published in the open access...
Court behavior beyond the game
When people picture beach volleyball culture, they usually just think about just the game. People don’t seem to have to think about how the...
Improving Quads 1: The net is not a player
Although a great deal of the instruction describes beach volleyball primarily as a doubles game, many, if not most, people are exposed to it...
“Call me off”
I hear a number of common phrases during volleyball play which I discourage athletes from using. This is why. “Call me off” This phrase...