Farrah, Michael and Beach Volleyball

So what the heck do Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson have to do with beach volleyball?

Respect.

Respect is very different than like.

Respect is very different than fear.

Respect is very different than worshipping or being “star struck”.

Respect is more about being consciously aware; it’s more about acknowledging something or someone.

Respect is more about not under estimating something or someone.

In beach volleyball (and in life!) to be your very best, you don’t have to like your opponent, your partner or even yourself! - but you sure better respect them… and you.

You may not like Farrah or Michael, but I really believe they deserve and earned respect.

The Lakers didn’t like the Celtics and visa versa, Frazier didn’t like Ali and visa versa, etc, etc - but they and many other well known opponents respected each other and therefore gave it their very best when they played each other.

In certain areas of their lives, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett gave and became their very best, in certain areas, it sure seemed like they didn’t…

It’s easy to gravitate to only things we like / stuff that is easily accessible and comfortable, (which isn’t a bad thing), but in most cases, settling for that alone will create a life of disrespecting what your very best is.

If you want to be your very best in beach volleyball,

• Stop disrespecting / under estimating your opponent.

And

• Respect your talent and goals by eating quality food all the time even when you are in a rush. FYI - no food is better than bad/fast food
• Respect yourself by getting enough rest before you play.
• Respect yourself by getting off the couch and truly training.
• Respect yourself by no longer hanging around people who will not consistently do something with their talents and goals.
• Respect yourself by no longer underestimating what it truly takes to be your very best.

The more you move toward being your very best in all areas of your life, the more you will respect yourself, the more you will respect how you live, the more you will respect the influence of the people you associate with and the more you will respect the world around you…U of Beach Volleyball is here to help you do this!

And, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson, we respect the good that you did, may you rest in peace.

Dan

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Happy Thursday!

We are changing a few things around at U Beach VBall – we have got a new super cool web design program that will make posting videos much easier to post and play on the website – ( if you’re in the market for web design programs check out XSitePro – it’s a GREAT system!)

So - When was the last time you heard the term volleyball used by a sports announcer?

Whenever I hear a football or basketball announcer use the term volleyball, I most usually cringe and shake my head –

It seems as though if a ball gets batted/slapped up around in the air, the announcer uses his "incredible talent and knowledge of sports" to say something along the lines of “ they volleyballed the ball… or he hit it like a volleyball…”

Now, if the only exposure the announcer has had to volleyball is playing it with a group of slap happy half 'sauced' relatives on a badminton net at a family picnic – I can forgive him.

BUT – since the AVP is regularly on Network TV, beach volleyball was shown as much or more than any other sport during the Olympics, the US has won Olympic gold metals many times in both the indoor and the beach game – the announcer needs to be slapped up side his head!

So, Mr Announcer, the next a basketball or football gets tipped around like a hot potato, show your intelligence and say, "in beach volleyball, that play would be blown dead because it would be lift or a double contact because it wasn’t a hard driven ball"!

Slapping at and batting around a ball is acceptable if you are in a swimming pool and your name is Gaylord Falker, or you are drinking Pina Coladas poolside in Cabo…but THAT ain’t volleyball!

Dan

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Happy Thursday!

Happy Thursday

Well we finally got enough time to post another evaluation video on YouTube - the combination of too much stuff to do and being computer/technology challenged takes it's toll!

Technology is such a bleeping tease -

It can do almost anything you want, but only if you and everything else involved is speaking the same "language"...and of course that language has nothing to do with swearing at my laptop!

Thank God for the reality of sun, sand and beach volleyball!

Dan

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