#20 - Olympic Lessons, Smart Attacking, Longevity, and More with Björn Berg

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8 ай бұрын

In this episode I take a walk around the lake with 2 time Swedish beach volleyball Olympian Björn Berg, picking his brain about all sorts of things beach volleyball that I find interesting and helpful!
Feel free to take a walk and listen at the same time, I can almost guarantee you'll learn a thing or two that you can apply to your own game in one way or another!
Topics covered are: Collaboration with your playing partner, smart attacking (and what it is), sports psychology and the mental game (both as an individual and within the team), longevity (how to play the game at a high level for a long time), confidence and serve receive, and more!
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Björns Instagram: / berg_beach
Björns sons Instagram (sorry Viggo you didn't get to join this interview, maybe one day I'll have to make it up with interviewing you??!) : / viggoberg11
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During the "smart attacking" part of the episode, Björn talked a fair bit about the power of being able to control the ball with one's wrist. I can't guarantee Björn would agree with everything I personally tend to teach about using the wrist, but if you want to dive deeper into the topic, here's at least one very well liked video that I have made about using the wrist when attacking: • The Truth About The Wr...
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@fredDeclerck 6 ай бұрын

Love the walk, and the steps in the background ^^ Also, being almost as old as Bjorn, I relate to several things he says, that, even if im a shorter player. Obvious things like develop a technique to look 1 way and sell it, but hit another, also things like putting the ball 1m away from the defender, he does not touchbase much on how he accomplishes that, but im guessing, it's techniques like half hits\half cuts (hits a bit slower, but at a sharper angle). SO Bjorn (and Alex), let me know when you come to Chicago, we'll get some games ^^

@LearnBeachVolleyballFast 5 ай бұрын

Hey! Nice, thanks for the comment! Yes it's interesting this thing with attacking.. Personally for me, so far, I have been going for the style where as long as I get to the ball correctly (so I need to know my setters tendencies etc) and see the blocker in the periphery, this is more or less enough for me to score. Of course there's more to it also, but that is according to me what produces 90% of my attacking success. But probably there could be something to learn for me to for example try to play with a less aggressive approach, and do these semi shots/semi hits and just try to get them a little bit out of the reach of the defender.. My philosophy is that the more playing styles you have mastered, the better in a sense because it means you have more ways to adapt when the circumstances for whatever reason make your number one choice of playing style not work..! Did you actually take a walk, that made you enjoy the walking podcast, or how did you listen to it? :)

@fredDeclerck 5 ай бұрын

@@LearnBeachVolleyballFast I have taken walks over some previous podcasts, however this was driving to and back from my sat am vball session ^^ (45 min out, 1h back)

@cappehnkrunch 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the early Christmas present! 🎄🎁

@LearnBeachVolleyballFast 8 ай бұрын

Hahah you're welcome! :) That's a nice way to see it as a Christmas present! I might be able to get something more up before Christmas also, we'll see! :)

@cappehnkrunch 8 ай бұрын

From a small guy for volleyball (182cm) don't steal our kit 😂 Please continue to telegraph hit or shot with your approach and elbow, please hit the ball "hard" instead of "fast and away" so you stay predictable and get tired faster 😂

@LearnBeachVolleyballFast 8 ай бұрын

@@cappehnkrunch Hahahahaha! 😅🤣 Noted!!