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Right after the current Volleyball World Pro Tour was announced in 2021 and the beach volleyball community was rightly up in arms about...

The talk is out there--what will become of the Pro Beach Tour post 2024? Will the Volleyball World experiment end after a pretty dismal...

The net should be fully tensioned and tied off before you attach antennas as any slight adjustment of the net can move the antennae....

Equipment needed: 2 tape measures (12 metres or longer) 6 small sticks (or can use 6 net antennae) Spade or shovel. Court lines Method:...

As the Funtec lines are the widely considered the best available competition lines in the world, I am focusing on how to replicate them...

(a google search on this exact title finds over 300 million results) Once again the role of sport in the world is in the news as the IOC...

Netflix has recently released its Tennis series "Break Point " which follows on from the Formula 1 series. With the creation of...

Senoh - screw on There are many imitations of the original Senoh antenna and they are usually cheap crap. The plastic bits you screw onto...

Funtec The absolute best beach line system on the market and the standard used at most international events around the world. The key to...

Note: start with the Funtec posts at 9.8m apart at the sand height as with the outward lean on the posts this will easily be 10m apart at...

International rules state 6m with a minimum of 5m. This means most events use 5m as the standard with many who have the space making the...

The place to start is with the Olympic qualifying principles (click to read). From this document the following key principles stand out:...

Unfortunately the current points system can be confusing and complicated. The World Ranking is the simplest yet it isn't used for entries...

Seedings Seedings are the points that rank or 'seed' teams before a tournament. The points are usually earned through previous...

Double Elimination This seems to be the most traditional format used in beach volleyball before the world tour made pool play more common...

More and more often beach volleyball events are being run in city centres or tennis stadiums or other locations where sand is trucked in...

In 2021 at a World Tour 1 Star event I was court side as court manager when Clemence Viera of France collided with the net post. Not by...

The block rule in Beach Volleyball needs changing. Other than confusion over the way referees interpret the setting in a game the...

The World Championships 2022 wrapped up this morning crowning the Beach Vikings and Duda/Patricia as World Champions of Beach Volleyball....