@@michaelandrew83 Good observation. Yes, this technique allows for not having to follow through (without hurting your shoulder), or one can also decide to follow through. I think the main benefit of not needing to follow through is that you can hit also balls that are set too tightly. There's examples of professionals doing this as well so it's not just me! 😄 I have a video planned on this topic for the future, the followthrough stuff is actually somewhat interesting because there's some differences also between followthroughs depending on swing type!

@@LearnBeachVolleyballFast love to see that video. I often do not follow through near the net, however off the net I like to follow through to guarantee I am feeling the top of the ball to roll it. If I am 4-6 feet off the net and I do not follow through the ball goes flat and out

@@michaelandrew83 I see, interesting! I would have to see it to be sure, but for me it sounds then like you might not be using wristsnap, at least not the times you hit a bit off the net and do not follow through... Because the wristsnap really creates topspin in my experience, whether you wristsnap with or without a followthrough!

Haha yeah I agree it's a crazy transformation, but I have seen it happen in one evening/just a few days for many players!

That's exactly what I believe. Some people still refuse to accept that the wristsnap would be a real phenomenon even after that explanation, I am not sure really what could be done to change that. Maybe if one built the wooden model I built but a bigger version of it where the "hand" actually has the same weight as a normal hand, and one made it hit a volleyball to see what would happen, if it also would "stop" or even "bounce back" from the impact with the ball.. So many interesting experiments could be made with unlimited time and resources! 😅

Good question! I am not sure I have all the answers, but the answer I have is that under a certain speed of spinning, the right move is to try to guide it with a slow contact, the spin will stop from that and the ball still go where it should. But a super fast spinning ball I instead think that the best way to do it is to "continue the spin" with the platform..! That way you will have no "spin friction" between the ball and your platform and the ball will go where you guide it, rather than where you guide it +- whatever the "spin friction" does to the situation. It's a bit tricky to "continue the spin" and still aim your bumpset, but it's possible to learn. I have no accurate way of describing how much spin is "too much" for a normal bumpset so that one needs to "continue the spin instead", but I know one can build a somewhat accurate feeling for it just from experimenting with it. Hope that helps!

My standing reach is 246 cm, David is 1 or 2 cm taller than me and probably around same arm length. My educated guess is 249 cm! 😅

@@LearnBeachVolleyballFastok thank you 👍🏻, can i ask how tall are you?

@@danielecanghiari 188 cm or 6'2!

Haha I wouldn't mind! My guess is they are very busy, but I am going to Stockholm for a bit soon, maybe I should ask.. An in person episode would be gold over the Skype stuff!

@@LearnBeachVolleyballFast yeeaah absolutely thank you 🔥

@@danielecanghiari haha we'll see what I can do..!

Thanks! Yess it can work surprisingly well haha! :)

Thank you! :)

Hahah! I prefer the oil the times it works because it takes less time and the ball is still "perfect" afterwards, with the rubber band method I become hestitant to let others pump my ball for example because chances are high they will push the rubberband inside the ball. But whatever works is better than what doesn't work! :)

Interesting! I need to reflect upon this a bit, I assume I'm watching the ball as I hit but I am not 100% sure actually! I know that I can often see the blocker in my peripheral vision so that probably means I look at the ball, but I should go out and do some hits and observe what I actually do..!

You mean that it's enough to just make the shots go really far/to the limits, and that that is the deciding factor, because then you will probably score even if the defender would happen to move that way?

​@@LearnBeachVolleyballFast Well I always feel like cut or high line is open. So I would stress myself out trying to figure out the "right" shot. But if my shots get even better, I create the openings. I'm tagging the back line lately because I'm playing so much and zoned in sometimes. That opens up the cut. And today I noticed people cheating for my cut shot after the fact. I thought I was telegraphing something, but then I would go jumbo and they'd be going forward for the cut. Also at A and AA here they will try to bait me to do something. So I have to pick a shot, go with it, and then see what happened afterwards. You definitely still can read, and I'm always surprised how well nuss can read, even when they're baiting her. But sometimes she struggles to score and starts swinging, which I totally relate with. The old BB me at scoring would think I have to swing or read better, but the A me at scoring wants to play a basic high line or cut game and make the shots really good. There's a tipping point that happens once the shots get to a certain level. It feels binary to me.

Amazing to hear! Enjoy the games! 😀

Hahaha! 😅😅 The oil is very helpful indeed!!

Thank you, hope it helps!! :)

Amazing to hear!! :)

I like it after a little bit of "break in" when the worst "plasticness" has been worn away. They might have made the newer batches rounder also, the first ones tended to not be 100% round. As always I think an important factor is what do people in your area play with in general, but yeah, I have ended up liking the BV550c in the end. But where other balls are perfect brand new, this one is perfect maybe 2 weeks in of use.

Nice, awesome to hear! Hope it holds up long term with the sunflower oil! :)

Absolutely! :)

Thanks! I hope it helps! :)

The one used mostly in your area. But if there is no games going on in your area, maybe I'd recommend getting the VLS300 because it should be cheap nowadays and it handles water well. But most places won't use that ball anymore.

Hello! Unfortunately I have yet to create the online courses.. So at the moment only online coaching and offline coaching in Europe available. There are some clips that will be parts of future courses available in a Patreons only Facebook group that I have. During Covid I started a Patreon and promised that anyone who donates money through it, will be able to use that money as "credits" in the future when I launch the courses. So technically it's possible to donate 5 Euros or whatever through the Patreon and get access to a few videos that the public doesn't have access to, and claim that 5 Euros in the future as prepayment. The videos in there are not in any sort of order though, just videos that I recorded because circumstances happened to be convenient to record them and I knew I need to record them sooner or later anyway. There will be a really good deal for about the 50 first people once I launch the online courses. I'll announce it first to Patreons, then to people who have communicated special interest in the courses, then to my email list, and lastly on KZfaq and Instagram, until all 50 spots are taken! This is at least the plan, which could change, but probably won't! www.patreon.com/learnbeachvolleyballfast is the Patreon, email newsletter can be joined at www.learnbeachvolleyballfast.com, and to tell me about special interest in the courses, email me at [email protected] :)

You're not the only one, it's simply physics and mechanics doing it's work! 🤩🤠

Makes sense! Never heard about the look away from sun and serve receive with peripheral vision thing, I'm gonna try that next time I play in those conditions! I also do believe that it would be good practice for someone like me (who does rely a fair amount on hard attacks) to play the game with a personal rule to only do pokeys for a full game for example. The awareness, vision and understanding you gain from those reps I'm pretty sure won't hurt your future game!

Nice! More videos around the topic probably coming this summer! :)

Always happy to take a quick look! Normally people who describe your problem, get it fixed by learning the wristsnap technique in this video, but of course there can also be other problems. For a longer in depth analysis and step by step instruction how to fix it I have to refer to my online coaching options (www.learnbeachvolleyballfast.com/coaching), but happy to have a quick look and write a few sentences of what I see, might give a good clue on where I think you should start! :) Upload the video somewhere and send it to [email protected] ! :)

Haha yeah it might! The tricky thing with beach setting is you kinda want to have your hands as wide apart as possible, but not too wide. Which creates for a perfect "slip through" opportunity at least for Mikasa balls that are wet from water or sweat.. Gotta try to be aware of it when theres a wet ball incoming..!

My guess then is that it has a hole in the actual bladder, and then the air comes out around the valve so air is trapped between bladder and outer leather and sips out next to the valve if you put the ball under water for example.) The only way I know how to fix that is cut up maybe 5 cm of the leather, pull out the bladder, find the place with the hole, fix it like a bike inner tube, put it back, sew the outer layer together and pump it up. It will leave the ball with some extra stitches but hey, a ball is better than no ball right?

Nice! Yeah, I have yet to see a good defender do what some of the coaches out there say you should do (start with a big step with the leg furthest away from the ball), but I'm always open to see proof of things being otherwise. But so far, no real game footage of a player doing that, and lots of game footage of players doing what I describe here! :)

I hope it helps! :)

Trust me, you are not the only one.. This is fairly common, especially amongst guys. There might be ways to stretch to make it better for some people, but for me personally even though I have done a fair bit of stretching already, I still need to use the asymmetrical platform for best results in beach volleyball.. Try it out and see! :)

Did it work

@@user-hj8lf4ys7spersonally for me, I was struggling to angle the ball since it felt like one side had more surface area than the other so I just went back to the regular platform and put as much emphasis on recieving with the extact center of my platform

Hey! Hahah yes, thank you! I do recognize your username here, I think you have been commenting earlier also? Always fun to meet people who saw videos in real life, maybe next time there will be more time for a chat! :)

Hahaha, good to hear!! That's what happens sometimes! 😁

You just have to be really careful when you insert the needle again to fill in more air. Have preferably a thin needle, use valve oil or at least spit to lubricate the needle, and aim inbetween the rubber band and the valve edge. If you happen to still have rubber band sticking out of the valve, hold onto it while you insert the needle. Hope this helps. In the worst case, you end up pushing the rubberband all the way in, and the ball will forever have a bit of a rattling sound, and you'll have to refix the valve..

@@LearnBeachVolleyballFast thanks... But i applied vaseline and IT WORKED!!

@@rehaninayat Nice! I am a bit unsure if its vaseline that is supposed to break down rubber long term or not.. If you by any crazy chance remember this in a year or so and wanna come back and give an update if the valve is still good with vaseline, feel free to do so! :)

You are not the only one.. It's very unfortunate, but maybe we can't expect anything else from the ones who naturally had a good platform? I don't know..! :) Glad you found your way here at least!

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? :)

@@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)

Good question! There might be other opinions (often associated with other philosophies of how the game is played compared to mine), but I'll give you some of my thoughts! So in the outlay of my future handsetting course, I have umm like a first part goal to have a handset that the referee is happy with, and that's it. If the referee isn't happy, nobody is. But once that is mastered, the evolution goes in two different directions: 1 - To also make the partner happy, and 2 - to still make the referee happy even if the setting situation is more difficult (think shanked serve receive, a very low and quick ball, a high and spinny ball etc.) And then the ultimate combo is when you can make both the referee and your teammate happy, even if the setting situation is more difficult. So setting well when the situation is difficult leads to a whole library of different techniques, how you need to do to deal with this ball and that ball etc, but just as an example certain low balls you might for example have to prioritize the set quality over your ability to still stand up after you set the ball, so you have to learn "falling sets" because if you try to set and stand on your legs afterwards in these situations, the set will be bad. (I think the last video in this video-series talks about that a bit!) There's way more to that with different directions etcetc but that will be in the course since its a whole bit to go through. On the other hand, making your partner happy with the set (and not only the referee), depends of course on your partner. And different partners think about attacking in different ways, and what is important for them is different. For some players, it is very important that the setter is facing wherever he/she is intending to set, for me that doesn't matter much at all I'd say, but another way of "telegraphing the intentions" of the set is crucial for me if I am attacking. So for example for me, I "need" to be able to read the set location and tempo from the setters body language, regardless of where they are facing. The thing is, all truly high level players I have ever played with (professional or almost professional players), have had this ability in their set. So I don't know. There are lower level players that use other systems to sync up between the setter and the hitter, but the one I personally prefer, seems to exist among professional level players but many lower level players don't use it or aren't aware of it even. So on one hand I don't want to say that I'm right and everybody else is wrong - after all what you need is a system between setter and hitter that works, and whatever does that job is good enough, on the other hand it seems to me that the specific system I like, also professional level players seem to like (whether they are deliberately aware of it or not), so that could maybe be seen as an argument that it's a system that also works on the highest levels. Hope that makes sense. So yeah, a bit longwinded here maybe, but for me, and expert setter is someone who can deliver good and predictable (for the attacker) sets both in good and less good situations. And then the less they can handle difficult situations, and the less their partner can tell where and how the ball is about to go, the less of an expert setter they are..!

Hey! Nice writeup, and I agree with you, good tactics! Now, I don't remember exactly all the words I said in this 40+ minute video and I won't relisten to it all just to write this comment (after all there has to be a limit on my perfectionism somewhere! 😅), so sorry if I'm repeating some points from the video but I do have some points that could be added! :) My main one is to become a good setter before becoming a good hitter (assuming you are not good at any of those from the beginning), because this makes it possible to find a higher level training partner to go practice attacking drills with. This will hopefully both make you a better attacker and build relationships within the higher level players, both things that help you get out of that "stuck" place. Another obvious one is find a good coach who can help you strangthen those weaknesses and flaws in your game thats keeping the high level players from accepting you into their group.. (Insert pitch for my coaching here..? 😅) The idea I had when I was stuck at that level but never actually put in action was to sometimes (say a couple times per year for example) pay 3 high level players a bit of money to play with me, 3 games (so everybody plays with everybody) and then ask them after the games for honest opinions on what is lacking from my game for me to be able to one day actually play at their level. Thinking about this now, maybe I could try this strategy in pickleball just for fun, to see what it would be like (I'm currently like a high intermediate/low advanced pickleball player.) The argument against this strategy could be that its already obvious for you what skills you are lacking so you don't need 3 additional guys to tell you what you already know, but sometimes people might highlight aspects of the game that are new to you (higher level players often view the game a bit differently), and regardless the sheer experience of experiencing the higher level, faster and more intensive game every now and then can be valuable, just so the body gets to experience what we are preparing for. Probably another tactic that I made up in my mind now is to get into a practice and play partnership coalition with a player at the same level as you. Together doing drills for your weaknesses, but also getting really synced up in terms of how you play the game, where and how sets are supposed to go, communicated etc, helping eachother mentally etcetc. A big part of skill in this game (especially at higher levels) is sync between partners, so two high intermediate players who get really synchronized might be able to compete with even advanced players who are just thrown into new temporary constellations because maybe they don't have a long term partner. Lets say you and your partner would get to play against advanced players as a team for a few months, over time people will start calling you also as an individual player to join them probably..!

I'm not sure you commented on the right video here..! 🤔🧐

Hey! Thanks for the commemt, I had to look it up because I had never heard about the ball! It seems to me (actually this website says so: sportraffic.com/product/mikasa-training-beach-volleyball-ball/) that this is the new version of the VXT30 ball.. VXT30 was like a cheaper version of the VLS300, but not a ton cheaper and not super bad, it was still a very playable ball! So yeah, when it comes to you and what you should do, I'm not quite sure! If the quality is similar to the old VXT30, it's definitely a playable ball, except that some people maybe wont play with it just because its not the official one.. On the other side, for example Wilson tends to make these cheap "replica" balls that are cheap copies of their real balls, and these tend to be really plastic etc and arent really nice at all to play with.. Not sure if I'm helping you with your decision. Does the surface of this ball have the dimples, in the same way as the Mikasa indoor balls and the BV550c?

Hope it helped! :)