How did YOU play?

    So after suprising myself with a 'new' level of play the last matches and training sessions I'm kind of experiencing a lesser period now. Probably since I'm striving for this fantastic level I have in my head now, which really wasn't that fantastic. At some point I had trouble serving the ball into court :wacko: :P :cheesy:


    But oh well we'll see. I have match tonight and one on tuesday, I don't expect very big things from this, but I also don't want to think about it. I hate thinking about volleyball, where I love doing it, but there's a distinct difference there.


    I'll just keep on doing what I'm doing and it's only a matter of time for my good form resurfaces, it is inevitable and this time I won't be as impressed by it and hence it should remain more stable.

    Bartek: Volleyball in fact is the only thing that keeps me from thinking about sexy chicks ;) Your profile picture makes it very hard to check out this forum at work btw :P


    Anyway, we lost our match 3-2. I tried to be modest and not expect too much of it, but played a really nice match actually. Reception was good, jump serve made for some trouble in their reception, defence too and scored most of everything in attack (used all angles: line, cross court and on top of the block), that is... till the end. The match got a little emotional at some point starting with me getting angry when the opposing team said my spike was out, while it was clearly in AND it touched block.. I don't get angry very often anymore and it was surprising to myself actually. The ref gave me a warning. After that I hit a cross court ball which hit one of their defenders. They all claimed it was out and when the ref asked the person in question whether he'd touched it... he said he didn't, so yeah after that my team was pissed and determined to win. We lost that set though (the 4th) and after that we also lost the 5th, in which I hit 3 rather crucial spikes outside of court :S In hind side I perhaps shouldn't have gone all out on those spikes, but was still a tad bit angry and I'd scored all of my attacks that way in the rest of the match. It was extra annoying, because the team we played had a bunch of really young players who (perhaps understandably) were acting rather childish. Oh well, it'll probably make for an interesting return match :)


    Played beach volleyball tournament with my girlfriend on sunday. We only played against all male teams, but lost of all our matches with only a 2 points difference, so that was quite good (albeit a little frustrating). Really felt as though my very best level was back again. Hopefully I won't get all obsessed about it this time :)

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    Why? :D


    Cuz it looks like I'm checking out a gay porn forum

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    Buahahahaha :)

    :P


    Played the other match last night against the number two seeded team. We won 3-2! Yay! upset. Their team was obviously more technically and atheltically skilled than ours, with the exception of myself of course :P (excuse my arrogance) It was a strange match.. the two sets we lost we lost really badly (25-12 I believe was one). But yeah I played really well again I thought. Still had the same level as I had on the beach. Specially beginning of the match I got a few blocks, a service ace with my jump serve and a few really good hits in. This led the other team to completely target me in serve. It didn't matter where I was on court; they woudl try and find me. First part of the match my reception was really stable, so all they accomplished was to get the ball perfectly to our setter. As the match furthered my setter set more balls to the other players since there was more space in the block there and my reception got a little shaky. But in the end played good throughout the whole match I thought. Played my jump serve in the 5th set and made no mistake and I didn't make any mistakes in attack either, in contract to the last match :)


    So was good to get rid of the bitter taste of last match. My team was very happy and so was I.


    An ex team mate of mine played on the other team. When he got subbed in I scored and ace on him straight away :P He played a really good match after that too though :)

    Next match won't be until January. Perhaps my girlfriend will make a video at some point, I made a few of her match not too long ago. Don't worry, it's coming :)

    Oh, I forgot; played a beach volleyball tournament with my (female) roommate and we got 1st place and won earwarmers, yay... :P I can tell my beach volleyball training is paying off. I don't even think about my receptiohn anymore, it's just solid and I don't have a hard time to see where I have to shot the ball to score. The problem with mix tournaments is that as soon as spike all out, you hit some poor girl in the face, so didn't do that too often. Thought my float serve was really good, scored some points with it.


    Funniest moment was this one team we were playing and the guy was really fanatic and he kept bitching about new rules and unfair decisions and every time he did I'd go "yeah no you can have the point go ahead, it's fine" and in the end he STILL lost 21-12 haha, even with the two bonus points I gave him :P Sometimes it's a a little unfair I find, because these people want to win so badly and I cannot say that I do anymore.. or well not as much, but then I do. Sorry to make myself seems so cool again, I really am not.. I am just a guy (jumping around in the sand)

    The youth A league just started today, and we won both our matches:
    MOK Krka - KEKOOprema Žužemberk 2:1
    MOK Krka - Calcit Volleyball 2:0
    I'm especialy pleased with our victory against Žužemberk, as they are the main condendor for this years title :)
    I played really good, in both macthes combined I had 91% reception and 81% attack :)
    We have 8 matches to go till the end of the A league, so hopefully our goal (reach the Final4) will be achieved! :)

    Those again are some sick statistics man :) Good luck in getting to F4


    I played mix beach volleyball tournament and won the whole thing again. Should probably subscribe to higher level tournament, but they're too late in the evening and my girlfriend isn't THAT good.

    Thanks! Theese two matches were probably the best matches I ever played in my life, so I think im in the form of my life! But unfortunaetly I got ill yesterday, so I just hope I'll be ready to play on sunday when we are gonna face Marchiol Vodi Prvačina(the 2d favourite for the title), and ŠD Brezovica...

    Had beach volleyball training on wednesday, normal training on thursday, match on friday and indoor tournament on saturday (my body hurts now).


    We lost our match 3-2 against the team that is about equally ranked. I played quite well in reception and average in attack. Hit a couple of attacks just wide, plus one of our setters is back from injury and his sets are not that stable yet, which made hitting tough sometimes. Played really well on serve. In beginning of the third set I scored 8 aces in a row with my jump serve!! I haven't had that since I played youth volleyball :P The team we played had some new player which obviously didn't belong at this level who kept hitting over out setter. The game in general had a lot of ups and downs. My girlfriend made videos and a lot are really good, they're still on her puter, but will post them as soon as I have them on mine. They give a pretty good idea of my game :)


    The tournament on saturday we won, but the teams we played sometimes were mix (with girls) teams (who were surprisingly strong actually!), but in general we were the best team there. Still hit more balls wide than I usually do, but at the end I felt as though I was playing some of my best volleyball. After the tournament some people asked me again whether I used to play in a higher league, so that's good for my ego (and bad for me :P).

    Good job! :)


    Had the 2d round of the A youth league on sunday, we played against ŠD Brezovica and one of the favourites for the title Marchiol Vodi Prvačina.
    In the first match against ŠD Brezovica the coach left me and the opposite on the bench, because he wanted to gives us a rest, because the opposition just wasn't on our level, we won comfortly 2:0 (25:18; 25:16).
    Second match against Marchiol Vodi Prvačina was the real deal, after loosing the first set 17-10, we started to serve on full power, and made a huge comeback, winning that set 25:22!! :) In the second set we moved up a gear and never gave the opposition any chance to win, playing good in attack and defense, winning the set 25:17.
    I played really well again in this game, I must say I'm probably in the form of my life, my reception was outstanding again(88%), scored 15points in attack(79%), served really well, didn't score any aces but most of their receptions of my servis we're outside the 3m line, so they had to play really slow... And i digged some tough balls in defense as welll :)
    Anyways for now we are the only unbeaten team in the A league, with 3 rounds(6 matches to go)! :)


    And here are the standings:


    poz. ekipa točke zm. izg. zm. izg. količnik zm. izg. količnik
    1 MOK Krka Novo mesto 8 4 0 8 1 8,000 211 177 1,192
    2 KEKOOprema Žužemberk 6 3 1 7 2 3,500 214 177 1,209
    3 Calcit Volleyball 4 2 2 4 5 0,800 208 195 1,067
    4 ŠD Brezovica 2 1 3 2 6 0,333 162 193 0,839
    5 Salonit Anhovo 0 0 2 1 4 0,250 81 116 0,698
    6 Marchiol Vodi 0 0 2 0 4 0,000 82 100 0,820


    Th next round is going to be verry important for us, as we will face KEKOOprema Žužemberk again, and Salonit Anhovo, if we will win both matches, we will almost surely be quallified for this years final4! :)

    Dude, awesome! Good to hear you're in such a great shape! I guess training, etc is really paying off. I think it's also good for your development to be one of the leading players of the team, because it'll teach you to deal with the stress of such responsability. And at the same time you play with a higher senior team right? So there you get to be 'underdog' again :)


    We lost our match 3-1 yesterday against one of the lowest seeded teams, while we were 3rd :( Don't know why, but we simply couldn't play and they were playing great. Think it might have something to do with two players who had been gone for a long time joining back in.. kind of introduces some uncertanties. I played quite well for most of the the game. The first 2 sets I felt as though I was the only one scoring points. Which at some point resulted in me getting almost all the sets when I was infront. And of course this resulted in me having a solid two man block and a well set defence in the diagonal in front fo me each time. So after a while I started getting blocked and defended as well :( Before that I hit someone in the face again. I've done that about 8 times this season already, compared to zero in my last two seasons.. don't know why this is. Reception was a little crappy compared to my usual form, but oh well. Jump serve was good again, as it just is lately. Only made one error and their reception firing balls all over the court.. compared to last game, this hall is twice as heigh, so they didn't hit the roof, so they were not aces.


    In the third set we came back from ten point behind, but ended up losing the set only just and then the last set the roles were reversed and we beat them really easily.


    I have the videos on my comp at home, but not at work. When I ahve the time I'll post them here :)

    I'm actually surprised I'm in such shape, because i have problems with my health, I was ill last week, so I only trained on thursday, but played fenomenal on Sunday, I'm ill again this week, but i probably won't train at all, so I hope that won't effect my game on sunday... :/
    Well I'm the 2d captain of the team, and the team and the coach trust me a lot so its good for my confidence, and I think one of the reasons I play soo good in the last time is that I'm really confident, and that I'm not nervous and I enjoy myself while playing, it really helps :)
    Yes I play for a senior team in the 3d Slovene league as well, I play as the 1st receiver in the team, so I think thats good as well, to play with better players on a higher level, you can really learn a lot, the only problem is that the senior matches are on saturday nights(I ussualy play the whole match...), and then the Youth matches are on sunday mornings, so I'm really tired already, thank god the youth A league ends in 3 weeks, and then the Final4(hope we quallify) is on the 8th may. :)

    Okay, well here's the long awaited video of my game :) In doesn't featue my famous all out jump serve though, only a held back variant.


    I'm the guy with 89, doing most of the hitting in this video.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OdqxCXMcfk

    Your profile of the attack reminds Me Bartman's attack from Politechnika Warszawska. Hm I have thought that You have blond hair but know I see that the photo in Your profile is Yours. A few months ago You have had another photo with blond hair...?