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Post by volleyballjim on Nov 12, 2012 13:18:29 GMT -5
No, but appreciate the invite...do you REALLY want me telling your friends about "etiquette" rather than hitting it down in the front 5 ft line !
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Post by vballit on Nov 12, 2012 20:03:06 GMT -5
Well Jimbo you dont have to tell my posse anything just talk with your game, btw if I am blocking your ball is going down on the 5 foot line on your side after it bounces off your face
TheVolleyballGod
VBG
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Post by volleyballjim on Nov 12, 2012 20:05:04 GMT -5
VBG, I appreciate your consideration.....FYI, I haven't seen my arm above the net in 6 years, so be ready to P U L L .....
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Post by vballit on Nov 13, 2012 22:46:20 GMT -5
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Post by volleyballjim on Nov 23, 2012 21:43:57 GMT -5
Since this forum is DYING, I guess its a "winter-thing", here's #77: Play is over, you won the rally PICK UP A &^&^%&*%^*&^&^ ball and SERVE !!! Tell the other team that you've got a ball (assuming you play with 3 or more which you SHOULD), and for them to KEEP the ball that was in play ESPECIALLY if they've got NO BALLS on their side and you have ALL OF THEM!...it COMPLETELY speeds up play.....
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Post by volleyballjim on Dec 11, 2012 21:52:30 GMT -5
#76 - No, I DIDN'T call "OUT" too late. OK, you NEVER call out too late UNLESS you call it AFTER your partner contacts the ball. None of this "Hey, you need to call it earlier" RATHER: "You need to pull off when you hear it", PLUS, why didn't YOU know it was out, you're CLOSER to the play...Anyway, leave your partner out of your FAULT !!!!
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Post by kokyu on Dec 15, 2012 1:59:58 GMT -5
75 - When servers don't call the score at all during a single rotation, and not even after the other team sides out unless asked. When you're serving call the score at least once, and courtesy call to the other team at the sideout if score weren't given beginning of that point. Don't whisper the score, you can hit hard, you can verbalize a robust audible score. At the bare minimum if you're serving you have to keep score even if you break aforementioned etiquette. If you repeatedly forget or lose the score while serving, you most definitely aren't caring or playing to best of your ability. Don't be a bum on the court!
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Post by kokyu on Dec 15, 2012 2:03:35 GMT -5
74 - Don't bring a semi-flat ball to the court, you have a pump at the house.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2012 10:55:44 GMT -5
If you repeatedly forget or lose the score while serving, you most definitely aren't caring or playing to best of your ability. Don't be a bum on the court! au contraire, mon ami. perhaps one cares so much about playing to the best of their ability that their focus is on that, and not some silly score...
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Post by kokyu on Dec 15, 2012 11:29:10 GMT -5
If you repeatedly forget or lose the score while serving, you most definitely aren't caring or playing to best of your ability. Don't be a bum on the court! au contraire, mon ami. perhaps one cares so much about playing to the best of their ability that their focus is on that, and not some silly score... Of course the score isn't important in of itself. The problem is, where I'm from, it's the server's responsibility to keep the score and if he forgets then a group discussion, however short or long, can delay and throw off the rhythm of the game. Other players may themselves not know the score either to no fault of their own as they're not serving and in charge of keeping score. Almost always it's the best players who forget the score, but that entitlement attitude to cause multiple "what's the score" discussions throughout a game gets old quickly.
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Post by volleyballjim on Dec 16, 2012 2:53:37 GMT -5
All this servin'-scorin' stuff, it brings us to #73: If you call the score WRONG and its in your favor MORE THAN 50% of the time, you're a CHEATER......See, forgetting the score is FINE, its just, well, when you "guess" the score (which we could talk about at length) you're apt to make a mistake, BUT that's OK, UNLESS your guesses are OFTEN in your favor. If that's the case, viola, you're a CHEATER ! ! ! See, here's the deal: You should make your errors on a random distribution so the breakdown would be 50/50 or within some confidence interval that would be close to that. I tracked a guy who was, SERIOUSLY, 9 out of 10 wrong in HIS favor......REALLY, do you want to win by altering the score....? Go trap a fly ball in the outfield and hold your glove up like you caught it or something, but STAY OFF THE SAND ! ! ! Just say'n...
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Post by kokyu on Dec 16, 2012 12:06:57 GMT -5
That's plain sad, VBJ. I've never played with a cheater. That's as low as it gets.
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Post by volleyballjim on Dec 16, 2012 12:17:04 GMT -5
@kku....in "deference" to these "cheaters", I'll say they are hyper-competitive...BUT, you cannot separate fact from "interpretation".......
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Post by kokyu on Dec 16, 2012 12:43:06 GMT -5
@kku....in "deference" to these "cheaters", I'll say they are hyper-competitive...BUT, you cannot separate fact from "interpretation"....... After a repeated pattern of cheating, what did you and the other players say? Does that person always partner with another cheater or is he solo psychotic?
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Post by volleyballjim on Dec 16, 2012 13:12:18 GMT -5
Here's the deal: These "select" players are known (I was a golfer, you know the integrity of players after a round or two, let alone years of play). When they call the ball "IN", the only thing you know is that it MIGHT be in, but also it might be out. There are other players, on the other side of this phenomena, that call every bad set, tell the opponents "You take it", etc. I've reverted used to this when there are any marginal calls, ESPECIALLY when one of these, and I use the word a bit loosely, cheaters is involved: "Did anyone SEE it contact the line"? At least when I say that, some back away and it exposes their "soft" data as they focus on ball imprint and other circumstantial evidence etc. Anyway, to answer your question, YES, we play with them and there are multitudes of them (just at different severity levels). Every beach player knows how hard it is to get 4 players of similar skill scheduled to play at a specific time, so we DO have to put up with some stuff....
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