Beach Volleyball Instruction

To be held at Croyde throughout spring and summer 2008

FOR GROUP BOOKINGS DATES CAN BE PRE-BOOKED
Mid Week and Weekends Available

Aimed at all level of players from absolute beginner, to players who would like to improve their beach knowledge but who haven’t had chance to work with a beach coach. Alternatively those who would like to work over a continued period with a regular coach and would like event coaching as well following on from the weekend.

Denise Austin will be heading up the coaches. Her credentials include; top ranked beach player in the UK over 15 years. Various international training camps abroad with world tour and Olympic medallists, playing on the FIVB world tour including the highest place for a UK team of 7th in 2000 and Staff Tutor for the EVA on beach volleyball.

The two days will include direct technical input into your core skills, looking at game play and also your own action plan and feedback from the weekend to prepare you for the season ahead.

The coaching will be tailored to the athletes and most levels will be catered for. We will attempt to place you with volleyball players of a similar level to aid your learning.

The cost per athlete is Ł60 for two days. For group bookings Ł55 per person minimum of 6. Maximum of 8 per camp unless by arrangement

Accommodation is easily available B&B Self Catering or Camping. We also offer B&B with a continental breakfast for Ł25. Accomodation on offer Seabirds B&B Croyde Nick and Denise AustinPlease phone Nick 01271 809676 or 07977 059321

To book your place on the course, please contact Denise and Nick Austin on 01271 890676 or 0777 33 82 305. Places are limited 8 Max and will be given on a first come basis. Once booked please fill in the Registration and Medical forms.

Or email info@beachvolleyballinc.com

Please note that refunds will only be given within 14 days notice of the date of your booking.

downloads:
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Medical information download form

The Civil Service Beach Volleyball Camp 2007 Feedback

The event was hosted by Denise Austin, international beach volleyball player and National Coach and the top ranked British woman, having been as high as 7th on the FIVB International Rankings, for 8 people - 6 CSSC members and 2 guests - 4 male and 4 female, which worked out quite nicely for playing mixed pairs

. The aim of the w/end was to develop awareness, knowledge and skill levels with regard to beach volleyball at every level from beginner to experienced player (which we quickly discovered none of us were !!) There's an enormous difference between playing Beach Volleyball and playing indoor volleyball on a beach '-)

The eight attendees were: Dale Walkden - MOD Abbey Wood - Organiser, Ivan Rogers - MOD Abbey Wood, Whips Moore - MOD Abbey Wood, Peter Holt - Job Centre, Poole, Sarah Newstead -Dstl, Jackie Bowler - HMYOI Portland, Peta Williams - Guest - Airbus UK, Hira Tierney - Guest - Airbus UK,

The w/end started, after introductions, with a warm up session. That description doesn't really do it justice - we all agreed afterwards that we'd never had so much fun, or smiled so much, during a warm up !! Denise was a very knowledgeable, enthusiastic, intuitive and capable coach, quickly able to determine the individual needs of those attending and to provide instruction/drills that could be carried out by all to develop the skills necessary on an individual level whilst still enabling the dynamics of the group, as a team, to develop in parallel.

A lot of the activity was recorded so that we could watch it later and it definitely felt like it took a lot longer to watch it than it had to do it, such was the level of enjoyment (if it's at all possible to use that word in connection with being worked hard, on sand, using muscles that your body has forgotten it had) from all those taking part.

Sunday followed a similar pattern, introducing new skills/techniques and how to employ them in a match situation, building up to the competition for King and Queen of the court, which, after some very good rallies (not withstanding the odd "domestic" over application of the rules) the victory was awarded to Ivan Rogers (the King, incidentally) and Sarah Newstead, so a particularly large "Well Done" to those two.

It is, in fact, wrong to single individuals out, everyone that attended the w/end showed a marked improvement, learnt an enormous amount, and went away with things to remember and work on to continue their improvement. This was only achieved because everyone put in so much effort, not only into learning things for their own benefit, but everybody helped everybody else and a very good team spirit and ethos was developed.

Of all the sports contested at the Olympic Games, Beach Volleyball has the fastest rising number of spectators. This is not only because it is a fast and exciting game to watch, but also because more and more people are getting involved and playing at all levels - I refuse to admit that it has anything at all to do with the skimpiness of the outfits!! ;-) That is why I believe that a very good way of getting more people involved and playing volleyball within both the CSSC South West Region and the CSSC as a whole, is to run more of these w/ends. That, in turn, will increase general awareness of volleyball, along with increasing the numbers of members playing, which can only lead to increased participation at Regional and National events.

Some of the comments about the w/end were: "I thought the w/end was very successful and enjoyed it immensely."
"It was good that Denise challenged us but also kept it at our level."
"As someone who's never actually really played beach vball before, it was perfect as I now feel confident I could enter a beach competition (although how well I'd actually do is another matter!) and at least know what was going on."
"And of course the basics always need work - the digging work was particularly good."
"It was really great that there were only 8 of us, so you got advice on exactly what you personally do wrong/well."
"Good mix of learning techniques & playing games"
"Relaxed atmosphere and Denise made it easy for you to just "have a go" at everything, even if it went horribly wrong!"
"It was nice that Denise had a few clear basic messages which got repeated a lot and which you can keep in your head the whole time - e.g. use legs, keep low etc"
"Denise put everything into a game context as well, so that you understood when you were supposed to use what and why and that she talked about trying to understand what the other team are going to do and how to react to it."
"It was nice that we weren't all from one team because it was nice to play with different people"
"I think it would be good to encourage newcomers or more improvers to try it."

Feedback from the previous camps

" The weekend with Denise offered an invaluable insight into the entry-level beach volleyball. She managed to give me a smooth transition from indoor techniques to a fresh new 'beach thinking'. She was firm yet approachable, very professional and prepared for various levels of players. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience and would like to point out that over many years of playing I did not come across to such a high quality of volleyball coaching in the UK." (Katarina)
"The weekend course was an invaluable experience for anyone who wants to start playing beach volleyball. The coach organised a range of players together in order to expose us to experienced players as well as players with whom we could focus on basic beach volleyball technique. I was amazed at the high calibre of coaching which was seen from very clear explanations, precise diagnosis offering steps to improve and also sensitivity to players of different strengths and changing morale. Altogether amazing sporting experience!" (Hanka)

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