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Saturday 29 December 2007

Restart of the Beachvolley Indoor Training sessions

As last winter, we will once again organise indoor training sessions from january to march / april, depending on the weather in Luxembourg.

Where?
Indoor training centre in Wallau or Niederkassel. Both Beach Halls are aproximately 220 kms from Luxembourg and can be reached in +/- 2 hours by car.

When?
Saturdays or Sundays, every time when there are enough people (min. 4 players)

Time planning? (Proposal)
Departure at 08:00
Playing time from +/- 11:00 to 13:00 / 14:00
Lunch from +/- 13:30 / 14:00 - 14:30
Back in Luxembourg at +/- 16:30 / 17:00
This planning can of course be changed on request.

Organization of training session?
First 1 hour of exercises just to heat up and to exercise basic techniques. After this there will be 1 - 2 hours of gameplay.

Cost?
Beachcourt: 25 EUR / hour (Niederkassel) or 40 EUR / hour (Wallau)
(plus fuel, food and beverages)

Who is invited?
Everyone who has a passion for Beachvolleyball, a minimum of technique and physical condition and the will to do 1 hour of exercises before playing. It's only this way you can make some progress.

If you have some more questions, or if you want to participate, just make me an e-mail (cposing@pt.lu).

So join us for a whole-year-beachvolley-season....

Montpellier Beach Masters 2008 - 4th edition from 8th to 18th May

As every year now since 2004, the Montpellier Beachvolley Academy will organise its great Beachvolleyball event on the Place de la Comédie, in the heart of Montpellier, the city where the sun never sets.

This year, you can expect 11 days of perfectly organised tournaments and events from 8th to 18th may with about 500 players and 250.000 spectators !!

Below, you can see an overview of the programme of this year's Beach Masters, with a particular celebration - the 10th anniversary of the Final France - Brazil in 1998:

The Montpellier Beachvolley Academy has been created by Stéphane Canet and Mathieu Hamel with the philosophy to be a Beachvolleyballclub opened to everybody, from beginners and occasional players just up to the professional players from the FIVB World Tour, and this completely independent of the country you are living in.

There is really a great sense of human relationship combined with a very high level of competence and passion for Beachvolleyball.

So just don't miss this exceptional event in the very beautiful city of Montpellier:

great sport, big fun, beautiful girls and marvellous people guaranteed !!

For further information about the Beach Masters 2008 or the Montpellier Beachvolley Academy, please contact me at cposing@pt.lu

Don't stay away - see you there in May !!

Saturday 10 November 2007

FIVB World Tour Calendar for 2008

A new tentative calendar for the 2008 FIVB World Tour has been published on the FIVB Beach Homepage.

For each tournament a link will guide you to the detailed informations.

So if you want to follow the results of the professional teams, set by set, this is where you get information about TV schedule, entry list of the teams, qualification results and main draw results, not to forget a lot of high quality photos.

And if you want to plan your holidays for next year, you can already have a look at the dates of the different tournaments and find all useful details about hotels, maps, ticketing and so on.

For more information about visiting such an event, you can also write me an e-mail.

Direct link to the calendar !!

So, just have a regular look and enjoy the 2008 season !

Friday 26 October 2007

New Beach-Courts in Luxembourg !!

Very good news for Beachvolleyball in Luxembourg: next season two new Beachvolley-Spots will be available.

First, it's the city of Pétange-Lamadelaine that has joined the list of cities with a Beachvolleyball-infrastructure. Two new courts are situated in the "Rue du vieux moulin" and are administrated by the "Club de Loisirs Echelsbaach". The courts will be opened from mai to october from 9:00 a.m. to 22:00.



To make a reservation, just call the following phone number:

M. Fornella Mauro
L-4875 Lamadelaine
34, Grousswiss
Tél. 50 17 27


At Leudelange, the city-council has decided this week to construct a new sport- and leisure complex at the location called "Schwéngsweed". This new complex will be composed of one Multisport-field, grandstands for spectators, one Beachvolley-Court and two Petanque-fields.

For more information and reservation, please contact the municipal administration of Leudelange (37 92 92 - 1).

For more locations to play Beachvolleyball in Luxembourg, please have a look at the rubric "Beachcourts in Luxembourg" on this blog.

Thursday 18 October 2007

ProAm Beach Academy - more infos...

As promised end of september, more information is now available about the different courses of the ProAm Beach Academy during the Easter-holidays.



Two camps will be organised:

23 March - 27 March 2008:
5 days of training with the possibility to choose two options:
- "Full time" with 2 training sessions of 2,5 hours per day (Price 799 EUR upwards*)
- or "Free time" with only 1 session of 2,5 hours per day (Price 749 EUR upwards*)

30 March - 3 April 2008:
5 days of training with 1 training session of 2,5 hours in the morning and 1 gameplay and competition session in the afternoon (Price 779 EUR upwards*)

* All prices are including the flight from and to Germany, the transfer to the hotel and all inclusive accomodation in the ***** Hotel Hedef.

More information can be found at volleyball.de in german language. So just get a look and tell me if you are interested by this kind of training camps.

See you,
La lucertola

Tuesday 2 October 2007

Bad news - Lämmi's Indoor Beachcourt has closed !!

Some very bad news reached my ears some weeks ago, and it seems that the rumour is proven right: Lämmi closed the indoor Beach-Court in Aachen and decided to install a Badminton Hall (who the f... told him Badminton is the coming sport of the 21st century?).

So this is quite bad for us but I promise you that we will find another solution to play Beachvolleyball in Winter (I have some ideas already :-) ). There are some more Indoor-Beach-Courts in Germany and it seems to be possible to find one in approximately the same distance as the one in Aachen.

Nevertheless, many thanks to Lämmi, his father and the whole team. We really felt at home in Aachen.

For all Beachplayers: just keep an eye on this blog to stay informed about the Winter-Beach-Sessions.

Ciao tutti
La lucertola

Friday 28 September 2007

Some dates to put in your 2008 agenda


The season 2007 has just finished and the first dates for the 2008 training camps are already fixed. So start your holiday planning right now!

Easterspecial ProAm Beach-Academy

For all Beachvolley-Players, that want to start their season at Easter, several courses will be organised by the ProAm Beach-Academy in Turkey. The motto of this Academy is: „Training, Fun und Beach-Volleyball "all you can eat"!“ . Just up to 5 hours training are possible per day with the professional players Ines Pianka and Marvin Polte. Both camps will last 5 days and take place between 20 March and 4 April.


Registration for these camps is not yet possible, and more detailed information about prices and hotels will be published later on.

Aldiana Beachcamps 2008

During the 2008 season "beach-volleyball.de" will continue to organise regularly, in collaboration with Aldiana und FOCUS, Beach-Volleyballcamps in selected holiday destinations.

The trainers will be some well-known Beachvolleyball-Players. The trainings will last up to 3 hours per day (during 5 days) and will be held in mixed groups. And the last day, a small tournament will be organised for experienced players as well as newcomers.

The planning for 2008:

04.03.-08.03. / 09.03.-13.03.2008 with Ruth Flemig and Stefanie Hüttermann at the ALDIANA-Club Djerba

02.04.–06.04. / 09.04.–13.04.2008 with Ray Wenning and Arvid Kinder at the ALDIANA -Club Djerba

14.04.–18.04. / 21.04.–25.04.2008 with Ruth Flemig and Stefanie Hüttermann at the ALDIANA-Club Tunisia

28.04.–02.05. / 05.05.–09.05.2008 with Tom Hikel and Marvin Polte at the ALDIANA-Club Side

26.05.–30.05./ 02.06.–06.06.2008 with Ines Pianka and Jana Vollmer at the ALDIANA-Club Alcaidesa

13.07.–17.07. / 20.07.–24.07.2008 with Gudula Staub-Krause and Thorsten Schoen at the ALDIANA-Club Side

28.07.–01.08. / 04.08.–08.08.2008 with Top-Players at the ALDIANA-Club Alcaidesa

11.08.–15.08. / 18.08.–22.08.2008 with Top-Players at the ALDIANA-Club Sarigerme

19.09.–23.09. / 26.09.–30.09.2008 with Kay Matysik and Andre Fröhlich at the ALDIANA-Club Tunisia

15.10.–19.10. / 22.10.–26.10.2008 with Tom Hikel and Silke Schmitt at the ALDIANA-Club Djerba

20.10.–24.10. / 27.10.–31.10.2008 with Andreas Scheuerpflug and Markus Richter at the ALDIANA-Club Side

More informations about the Clubs can be found on the Internetpages of Aldiana.

Thursday 20 September 2007

Winter rest - time to get new energy

Hi all,

after a very long season, it's time for some holidays and some relaxing time. The beach season 2007 is now over but please don't cry - the next one is coming very soon.



Personally, I will use the months of october, november and december to do some fitness training (running, biking,...) and play Indoor-Volleyball once a week in Walferdange, just to stay in contact with a volleyball in winter.

After that, the beginning of the new year will start with some specific power training for beachvolleyball (twice a week) and with 2-3 practices a month in a Beachvolleyball-hall.

As the first training camp will be probably end of march, this leaves the necessary time for a 3-months physical preparation, to be already in good shape for the camp.

And after this, in April the new beachvolley season 2008 is ready to start.

For 2008, I hope that the weather in Luxembourg will be a lot better than this year. And that it will be possible to organise all together some beachvolleyball events:

Training camps in Montpellier
Participation in tournaments in Luxembourg and abroad
Visit of a Swatch Tournament in Europe
....

For suggestions, don't hesitate to write me an e-mail (cposing@pt.lu) or leave a comment on my blog.

Hope seing you soon,
Ciao tutti
La lucertola

Tuesday 21 August 2007

Diekirch Beach Tournament

Hello everybody,

the team "Ay Papi" has finished the tournament last Sunday on the FIRST place. After some more or less easy games, the final was quite tight: after a first set that was clearly won by the "Flying Mallers" we recovered from the shock in the second set and won finally the third set by only 2 points.


Thanks a lot to my team-mates Corinne, Angela and the "Spaniard" Misch Torres (and our supporters). It was a great afternoon.


Good news for all people: the city of Diekirch has decided to organise "Diekirch Plage" once again next year during the summer, with even 3 beach-courts.

See you there next summer !! (The cocktails are really, really tasty)

Ciao
La lucertola

Friday 17 August 2007

Beachvolley Tournament at Diekirch Plage

Hello everybody,
this week-end (19-08-2007) there is yet another Beachvolley Tournament at Diekirch Plage.
Location: behind the indoor swimming pool
Beginning: Sunday, 3 p.m.
Play Mode: 4 vs 4, leisure category




So see you there - come and have fun !!

Thursday 9 August 2007

La lucertola with Carolina :-))

Picture taken at the FIVB World Championship in Gstaad (July 2007)
A great moment for every Beachvolley-fanatic: seeing the brazilian stars in action - samba in the sand !!


Wednesday 8 August 2007

Lucky Man

La lucertola with the Salgado sisters: Maria Clara and Carolina. Both are probably the future brazilian Beachvolley legends