The home team is shaping-up nicely with athletes from Jersey and Penna training together regularly! I'll be at volleyball nationals for the next week, scattering the fine streets and public areas of Louisville with short, concise information cards with our contact information. With luck, we'll get just a bit of exposure among the hundreds of teams and thousands of volleyball players and spectators. Training will continue at Phoenix SC, as always! And Todd doesn't know that I'm suggesting this, but you should reach-out to him for South Jersey meetings.
My biggest project at present is assembling a team or two for training and competition in Wisconsin (5-7 July). We'll work with you to find the best fit for flights, driving, food and lodging. Let me know if you can set-aside those days! US head coach, Gastao Englert, will be organizing these practices, and you'll be sure to take your game to the next level!
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Updates: Local Television Spot and Training
Today's weather calls to mind that damp Friday in April when Kay and I lumped into Todd's Sonata, destination Allentown, PA. After several scheduling conflicts, SECTV crewmen (the '2-crew,' to local viewers) would be wrapping their camera and equipment in clear plastic bags and meeting us on the fields at Cedar Beach Park for an interview and tekker demonstrations.
Appropriately, I recently received word that SECTV would begin airing the SportsFest preview shows this week, but there has been no specific announcement regarding the fistball segment. Should this footage ever surface, I can tell you that I recall being preoccupied--the weather, the spirits of my friends after a moderate-length drive in moderately-jammed traffic, what to do with my hands, divining the depth to which my interviewer Really wanted me to delve, shouting passersby, and so on... Good for a chuckle or good for recruiting, it is immaterial at this point. We showed-up and we did our best!
Skill demonstrations went well, I believe (but then, I had the advantage of being a spectator to Todd and Kay as they ran-through first touches, setting, attacks, serves and some combination techniques). The shaggy grass was no help, but the cameraman was persistent: we shot and re-shot from different angles until he expressed satisfaction. He took close-ups of the US shields on our uniforms while we rambled off-the-record (I hope!) about our adventures and misadventures since finding the sport.
A good day, mates, made no less so by our stop at a Spinnerstown tavern.
I hope that we are able to meet today! If the weather is not permitting, though, we can look to Thursday and this weekend as ample time to train together.
Cheers!
Appropriately, I recently received word that SECTV would begin airing the SportsFest preview shows this week, but there has been no specific announcement regarding the fistball segment. Should this footage ever surface, I can tell you that I recall being preoccupied--the weather, the spirits of my friends after a moderate-length drive in moderately-jammed traffic, what to do with my hands, divining the depth to which my interviewer Really wanted me to delve, shouting passersby, and so on... Good for a chuckle or good for recruiting, it is immaterial at this point. We showed-up and we did our best!
Skill demonstrations went well, I believe (but then, I had the advantage of being a spectator to Todd and Kay as they ran-through first touches, setting, attacks, serves and some combination techniques). The shaggy grass was no help, but the cameraman was persistent: we shot and re-shot from different angles until he expressed satisfaction. He took close-ups of the US shields on our uniforms while we rambled off-the-record (I hope!) about our adventures and misadventures since finding the sport.
A good day, mates, made no less so by our stop at a Spinnerstown tavern.
I hope that we are able to meet today! If the weather is not permitting, though, we can look to Thursday and this weekend as ample time to train together.
Cheers!
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