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Archive for January, 2010

So you are a pretty talented college player who has a lot of years of learning how to improve your setting while training on your club volleyball team, right? You may not be the setter on your team but you’re good enough to run down a ball that your setter can’t get to and set the ball to any of your other teammates.

Now, you want to start playing sand volleyball and you see that your first challenge is to coordinate your upper body setting mechanics with trying to learn how to run in the sand and all of a sudden you seem to be getting whistled for double hits and lifts every time you touch the ball.

As a competitive athlete that can initially seem rather frustrating because it feels like you are just giving away easy points to the opposing team by committing errors while trying to use your hands to set which of course is something you’ve been training to do for years.