Beach Volleyball Training-Defense
Volleyball training has to involve just as much defense as offense. Yes spiking the ball is a lot of fun and you need to learn how to spike a volleyball but that’s not all that wins games. We talked about how you need to learn to jump higher to be a big block at the volleyball net but what about the person that digs balls off of the volleyball net? Now, we will take a look at how important it is to do some beach volleyball drills for digging balls. One good thing about outdoor volleyballs is that they aren’t hard like the indoor volleyballs. If you read the post titled buy Wilson beach volleyballs only you will know that the Wilson beach volleyballs are much softer and less inflated than an indoor ball.
Lets take a look at some of the best defensive players in the AVP. The person leading the AVP with the most digs in 2009 on the mens side is Casey Jennings, the former BYU player that played sand volleyball in Utah before going pro. Now the woman with the most digs in the AVP is Brooke Hanson. Digging is a very important part to the game and adds a lot of excitement to the game of beach volleyball.
Top 10 Digs in the AVP
Casey Jennings
Ryan Mariano
Sean Rosenthal
Todd Rogers
Everett Matthews
Matt Olson
John Mayer
John Hyden
Nick Lucena
Aaron Wachtfogel
Top 10 digs in the AVP on the womens side
Brooke Hanson
Jenny Pavley
Barbra Fontana
Brittany Hochevar
Claire D’Amore
Whitney Pavlik
Chrissie Zartman (Shortest player in the AVP at 5’3″)
Tracy Lindquist
Tatiana Minello
Suzanne Stonebarger
It’s no wonder that the teams with the highest number of digs are consistently ranked at the top of the AVP. Everyone wants a big block at the volleyball net but having a great defensive player behind the block is priceless.
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