Beach Court in Echternach added to the map

Near the new Youth Hostel in Echternach, just beside the lake, there is a new facility available to play beachvolleyball. For the moment I do not know more details (number of courts, access limitations, fees,...) but as soon as will know more about it, I will add the informations.
Some more details have also been added to the beach calendar this week.
Surely waiting for the sun to come back, just like me, I hope you nevertheless enjoy your weekend...

but as you see in this video...there is no inappropriate weather to play beachvolleyball, ii-haah

 

Tournament Calendar Luxembourg Season 2014 online !!

On the internet page of the FLVB, the tournament calendar will be soon be online, but as the beginning of the tournament season is only 2 months away, I wanted to publish the calendar as soon as possible on this blog.
Big thanks to Norma to have collected nearly all the dates for the 2014 season and to share them with me (of course I will return you the favor).
One tournament is still not confirmed - the one of the VC Bonnevoie, normally in beginning of july, and then I also want to check the date of the 12th august for the tournament in Steinfort as the 12th august is not on a weekend.
Some more tournaments will be added as soon as I have notice of them - here in Luxembourg or in the french, german or belgian borderregion of Luxembourg.
So just keep an eye at the calendar page during the next weeks.
See you on the beach !!

How to manage the transition from Indoor to Beachvolleyball...

This weekend, spring shows all of its beauty here in Luxembourg with undisrupted sunshine and the first rays of sunlight on our skin. And so, all the beachvolleyballplayers in the country start thinking on leaving indoor volley for the first trainings in the sand, even if ground temperatures stay quite low for the moment.
But it's only question of one or two more weeks and the beachvolley season with its first tournaments in beginning of June will start shouting for preparation.
And so, we all have to manage the transition from volleyball to beachvolleyball once again after the winter. And for those who will try this switch for the first time in their life, just have a look on an article written by April Ross, which describes very well what makes the difference in Beachvolleyball.... (April Ross - the-transition)

For those who don't know April Ross - she's a californian beachvolley player, born in 1982 in Costa Mesa, California, a very energic person and sportswoman and had already some great successes, mainly with Jennifer Kessy.

Start of the 2014 Beachvolley season not far away....

Me and my mate Mat' (2012)

The first of march is the official start of the meteorological spring and so I really hope that in a month or perhaps a little bit earlier the beachvolleyball season can start here in Luxembourg. Everybody still remembers the last season with horribly cold temperatures just up to June and so I personally never got really in it, not even in summer.
But hopefully 2014 will be different and for the lucertola, it will be a little bit of a comeback season after 2 years of injuries and a lot of professional work prohibiting a regular training.

Lucertola team in reception trouble (2013)

Remembering 2013....
Nevertheless 2013 was quite remarkable with the GSSE hold in Luxembourg, seing the Goodbye-Tournament of Norma and Anne, and seing the first official big competition for Ben and Djamel.
Then, in July, the World Championship took place in Polonia with big changes in the hierarchy established during the last seasons. With refereing more indulgent with pass play, the game is getting much quicker and tactically different with men playing a