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Playing Beach Volleyball How Beach Volleyball Helps Your Indoor Game
Learn several ways you can take advantage of the benefits of playing beach volleyball in order to help improve your indoor volleyball playing skills.
Playing beach volleyball is a great way for girls to improve their indoor volleyball skills.
The bad news is that unfortunately not everybody can adopt this strategy, because they may not have access to a sand court.
The good news is that playing sand volleyball has increased in popularity around the US at an enormous rate, both among female players in college and at the high school level.
Alabama's white-sand beaches are the home of the NCAA Beach Volleyball Championship, May 1 - 3, 2020.
This means that more local universities and colleges are investing in building sand courts in and around their campuses.
Not only will these courts be used in the spring during the college sand season but more coaches are hosting volleyball camps for sand players which allows you to attend and learn how to play beach volleyball from those who know the game well.
When you think of Bakersfield you might think of oil, agriculture, palm trees but probably not beach volleyball.
Now you might not exactly think beach volleyball but sand volleyball is close enough. The new courts at CSUB are as good as any you'll find in the country.
If you are a young player who doesn't live near a beach check with your local university or college to see if there's a sand volleyball court on their campus or if they're hosting a sand camp this summer.
This way you can take advantage of the benefits of playing sand volleyball in order to help improve your indoor volleyball game.
Playing Beach Volleyball
Helps Develop Strong Legs
The sand is a soft, uneven pliable surface which provides resistance and contributes to indoor players developing the leg muscles that help them when it comes to increasing their vertical jump.
Even without becoming aware of it, the more you run, jump and play in the sand, the more you develop strength in your legs.
- It takes alot more strength and energy to move your body through the sand.
- Your muscles work harder to hold you up and to move you forward or in the direction you are trying to go when chasing a ball.
- Your muscles work twice as hard than when you are running or walking on a hard surface.
Playing Beach Volleyball
Helps Increase Leg
and Foot Speed
Another major benefit of playing beach volleyball is that players increase their foot speed when they transition from practicing on a sand court to playing on an indoor volleyball court.
One of my two high school coaches was beach volleyball player Chris Talunas Rundle (former wife of beach volleyball legend and indoor Olympian Larry Rundle).
My high school was two miles from the beach so Chris would often have our indoor varsity volleyball practice and do conditioning drills on the sand since our school was so close to it.
At first, I would just die from exhaustion because the sand seemed to hold me back from doing any of the volleyball skills I was used to doing well.
But it doesn't take long to get used to it.
That was the first time I learned the benefit of practicing and doing conditioning drills in the sand.
After awhile, when I started running and jumping in my indoor games and practices I noticed I was a lot faster and I jumped a lot higher since the gym floor didn't provide the resistance that the sand did.
This is a common occurrence to almost all players who learn the beach volleyball game then return indoors to play during their season.
You'll find that it takes less time to cover more area of the court in defense because your legs aren't pushing as hard against the pliable surface of the sand.
Just like its harder to go from learning the indoor game to becoming good at the outdoor game, it becomes easier to go from the outdoor game to the indoor game.
One of the best things a player can do when she's doing her summer volleyball training workout is to find some sand to run sprints and jump train in and to play beach volleyball.
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Learn more about playing beach volleyball in the pages below
3 Beach Volleyball Hand Grips How Do You Hold Your Hands When Passing?
The purpose of the volleyball hand grip you use to pass a ball is to help keep your elbows straight and to insure you have a very flat and wide a platform.
Sand Volleyball Setting Tips Can You Set Better in Beach Volleyball?
Learn to fine tune your sand setting technique and improve your beach volleyball setting skills by facing your target and building leg muscle speed and strength
Beach Volleyball Bump Set Rules Should You Bump Set Or Deep Dish Set?
Beginner players adopt styles of sand setting by copying the professionals imitating their volleyball bump set or deep dish style. Is it the best thing to do?
The Bump Set Volleyball Skill Why Bump Set When You Can Overhand Set?
Beach players use their bump set volleyball skills more than hand setting so they can have more control of the ball when playing outside in windy conditions.
The Beach Volleyball Forearm Pass Who Takes The Middle of the Court?
With so much court area to cover, it's crucial partners establish who will use the beach volleyball forearm pass first when served to some areas of the court.
Pass A Volleyball On the Beach Better By Keeping The Ball Off The Net
In indoor volleyball you pass a volleyball to your setter who waits close to the net in Zone 3. In beach volleyball you want to pass the ball off the net.
Watch Beach Volleyball Videos To Learn How To Play Beach Volleyball
Beach volleyball videos have grown popular as pro beach players record Youtube videos that they use to instruct their subscribers how to play beach volleyball.
How The Beach Volleyball Uniform Helps Grow Olympic Beach Volleyball
Explore the fascinating journey of the women's beach volleyball uniform from a sportswear necessity to an empowering symbol of female athleticism
Beach Volleyball Tips Techniques To Improve Your Bump Setting in Sand
Use these 3 beach volleyball tips techniques for bump setting in volleyball 1) sand sprints 2) how to use your legs and 3) use the bump set over hand setting.
Beach Volleyball Tips Beginners Face 3 Obstacles Playing In The Sand
Beach Volleyball Tips Beginners use when playing in the sand like is playing on an uneven surface, 2 players not 6 and overcoming position specialization
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