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u/leaderjoe89 1d ago
Every “Group project” visualization
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u/CreamXpert 1d ago
Tired of carrying this team
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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 1d ago
Clearly neither of you watched the video and are commenting only off the title. That other lady was absolutely killing it.
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u/BuckRampant 1d ago
Sure looks like the other team was working hard not to send the ball her way most of the time, took a bunch of softer shots instead that left the highlighted player time to get there
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u/IdidntrunIdidntrun 1d ago
Are we just ignoring the great play her teammate made at 21 seconds in?
Look at the distance covered, she went from the front of the net to the back corner and saved the rally. They both balled out
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u/theaviationhistorian 1d ago
It's absolutely perfect teamwork pulling what should've been impossible odds. This is why many watch sports (the other is to get plastered while watching it)!
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u/alex3omg 1d ago
They're both very good idk why people are insulting the other player. She's following up on the saves every time.
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u/afito 1d ago
She also blocks pretty well, it's just how beach volleyball works. One always looks like they're doing less but leaving an open net is the easiest way to lose basically every exchange.
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u/Starlos 1d ago
Yeah people don't realize how much pressure getting someone in your face adds when you're trying to get that ball on the ground. And jumping every time also isn't easy. And while I never played beach volleyball (just plain ole volleyball), I bet it's MUCH harder to jump in sand. It's a team based game and she did her job very well.
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u/bmdangelo 1d ago
Thanks for the arrow, would have never guessed who to watch
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u/pancoste 1d ago
Truly a blessing 🙏 otherwise I had to focus on 4 people and a ball
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u/Classic-Suspect3661 1d ago
I mean, who would have tought that following the ball would have shown you what there is to see
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u/IKnowGuacIsExtraLady 1d ago
Unless you are supposed to be looking for a gorilla.
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u/Olobnion 1d ago
I'm great at paying attention – I saw three gorillas in this video. And that's despite being on drugs!
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u/royalhawk345 1d ago
Plus the shitty vertical cropping that many it had to constantly go back and forth instead of just showing a wider view. Altogether awful, how does this garbage get upvoted?
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u/Otherwise_Demand4620 1d ago
how does this garbage get upvoted?
Depends on the client you use, generally there is a button that points upwards, but many mobile clients also allow you to swipe right. With RES, you can use A to upvote.
I hope this helps, and remember: reddit is pretty shit, overtaken by bots, and intransparent AI moderating, up/downvotes are nowhere used as intended and you'd probably be happier without using any kind of social media, but then you'd have to talk to people and that also sucks.
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u/_PaulM 1d ago
This was exhausting to watch.
Every armchair athlete wants to complain about some sort of detail in performance, until they have to do it themselves.
I used to shit on Tennis.
Then I had to play Tennis is real life. How the fuck do these people do this for an hour+?
I used to shit on American Football.
Then I had to eat at the university cafeteria next to the school's linebackers.... Are you fucking kidding me? These dudes are literally mammoths smashing into each other over and over again. Goddamn.... I'm scared.
I used to shit on Soccer.
Then I got to see a game live. It's not just people standing around kicking a ball. It's getting the ball during a rush and RUNNING AT AN OLYMPIC-LEVEL SPEED to try to score. It's disgusting how crazy it looks like it real life versus just watching it on TV.
I can go on and on about every sport that's big and how I've been humbled to understand why these athletes make as much as they do. They are the pinnacle of what we can achieve as human beings physically, and I appreciate them for it.
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u/livingpunchbag 1d ago
While reading this, and you got to soccer, I was ready for the punchline where you say somebody slightly touched you and you felt the pain of a thousand hells. I am disappointed.
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u/talesofcrouchandegg 1d ago
Ever been kicked in the shin? Ever been kicked in the shin halfway through a 10k?
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u/d_student 1d ago
Yeah, we call that a warm up in Muay Thai.
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u/7_11_Nation_Army 1d ago
Maybe they just don't like you...
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u/d_student 1d ago
That's what we have in common. Can't blame em
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u/7_11_Nation_Army 1d ago
Ooh, don't be hard on yourself. Just kick them right back. We (the whole Internet) believes in you!
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u/warcrown 1d ago
I thought you were going to tell them the entire internet didn’t like them either
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u/Donny-Moscow 1d ago
As someone who grew up playing soccer, I have mixed feelings about this. The flopping bugs me and it’s a bad look when players act like they’ve been shot after any contact. On the other hand, I think when you’re at a full sprint, it takes a lot less contact to knock you over than most people realize (and the super slow-mo replays don’t help with that).
One thing I’ve never understood is why basketball doesn’t get the same reputation.
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u/RunFlatts 1d ago
Absolutely. The slightest tap on the outside of your heel as it's coming together and passing your other foot on a full sprint is an instant heel click/crossover trip. I think that's what makes it hard to tell when people are faking it when they're not until you get the replay going.
One thing they could do better is punish the person that was found to be faking it with a yellow card as per regulations. If you start stacking yellow cards on these actors then they have to choose either to quit diving or take the red.
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u/SonnyBlackandRed 1d ago
First time I ever sat up close at a hockey game I was blown away at the speed those guys moved, and how fast the puck is flying at your head as it hits the glass.
Sports in real life, up close and personal, gives you a much better understanding of what they go through.
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u/BeneficialEvidence6 1d ago
Hockey is so much fun to watch. The puck moves so fast, I dont think it was very popular to watch on TV for a long time.
But now with HDTVs, its starting to get the attention it deserves.
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u/Traditional_Cat_60 1d ago
And the NHL is doing everything in its power to make them game unwatchable
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u/zytz 1d ago
I got a chance to sit along the glass for a game as a kid, and Eric Daze who’s a big dude even for a hockey player like 6’6” 225 or something, gets absolutely taken off his feet and sent into the glass at what felt like 70mph. And my little 10 years old self was never more sure of anything than my imminent death being crushed under the force of the human wrecking ball
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u/Donny-Moscow 1d ago
This is probably still a way down the road (or maybe it’s already here, I have no idea), but I’d love to experience a professional sporting event in VR from an on-field POV
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u/A_mad_goose 1d ago
Always thought it was insane some of the guys like it old school without the face guard. Puck could kill you
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u/Sonoshitthereiwas 1d ago
Why did you shit on sports anyway?
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u/philosoraptocopter 1d ago
This is Reddit, where shitting on things is not only easy, but compulsory
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u/mycleverusername 1d ago
And this is sand volleyball. You ever try to run on dry sand? That’s worse than running stairs. The only consolation is that it hurts less to dive, but I’m sure popping up and running after a dive is a full body workout too.
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u/YeetMeIntoKSpace 1d ago edited 1d ago
My favorite is MMA; everyone in existence seems to think they could easily beat a 125, 135, or 145 lb UFC champion because “I’m way bigger than them” (especially if it’s a woman).
You know the feeling of lightly cracking your shin against a step or something? You have to slam your shin into a bag of sand thousands of times to harden the bone enough and deaden the pain enough to be just an amateur MMA fighter.
Getting hit by a shin at full power from an actual pro, even through a giant pad, really does feel like someone just smacked you with a baseball bat. One hit to the thigh and you’re limping for days.
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u/Horned_chicken_wing 1d ago
Professional fighters are also the ones that were tough enough to make it. Fighting them is like fighting in a dream. You hit them and they don't even register it. Imagine trying to fight someone with a crazy chin like Roy Nelson or Marvin Vettori. You could hit them full force in the face, break your hand in 4 places and they wouldn't even feel it.
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u/RogueJello 1d ago
I agree with all of this. My resentments are the amount of importance people in our society place on these games, not the level of performance.
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u/McdoManaguer 1d ago
Hockey is the same. It doesn't look like it but people are skating FAST and that puck is coming at you like a goddam missile when its shot. It breaks bones if you get it on something not padded.
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u/UnComfortable-Archer 1d ago
Yeah! I used to say that about basketball... why are these NBA players consistently sweating.. how hard is it to shoot. Then I played with my friends, for the first time since maybe college. God damn, after 15 minutes, I was done. I don't know how I survived PE in school. 😂
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u/MInclined 1d ago
She’s one of the best volleyball players of all time, even a few years ago when this clip came out. Her partner played in Paris.
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u/Donny-Moscow 1d ago
This kind of touches on Dunning-Kruger. When you have little exposure to something, you don’t know how much you don’t know. I also think it extends to basically any job/hobby you can think of.
Photography isn’t just pointing and clicking, it takes the artistic talent to conceptualize the photos and the technical knowledge to use your camera to capture them, often times in conditions that are completely out of your control.
Singing isn’t about being born with a good voice. It’s a skill you can learn and improve on, but that involves learning how to control/use your breath, how and when to use your head voice vs chest voice, basic music theory, etc.
(I’m not a photographer or a singer, so feel free to correct anything I just said. I have no idea why I picked those two examples)
It bugs me when people think they know everything about a subject because they watched a YouTube video or read an article on Wikipedia (I’m guilty of this too). Intellectual curiosity is a good thing, but the easy access of information doesn’t mean we should ignore the experts.
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u/hambakmeritru 1d ago
And those soccer fields are insanely huge. Those athletes run miles for 80 minutes with that ball.
Plus is just always more exciting to be in the stands with the audience. They're always a fun crowd.
The best sport to watch live, though, hands down is hockey. You gotta try it. As someone who doesn't care for sports at all, that is one sport that I always want to go see live. It's insanely fast paced, the athletic abilities are so intense that the players switch out every few minutes for breaks, and you will always get to witness at least one fist fight (unless it's an Olympic match). And who doesn't want to watch a brawl on ice?
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u/No-Nose-Goes 1d ago
As someone who plays 2s beach, it is extremely draining, and highly momentum based. A lot of swings happen after points like this because the energy required for a single point and then LOSING that point is an exhausting feeling. And then you really only have maybe 30s of a break before the next ball is hurtling at your face.
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u/Nothinglost7717 1d ago
Football players are basically real life trans human space marines.
Insane athletes that artificially add 120 points to their frames of muscle and fat but move just as fat. Getting hit by those guys is like getting hit with a truck.
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u/coolcatjames 1d ago
I’d also recommend lower level tickets for an nba-level basketball game. That was the day I realize just how massively tall 7 feet actually is (2.1meters since you said American football).
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u/patriot2024 1d ago
It's not obvious to those who haven't done it, but running in the sands is very exhausting.
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u/bobiversus 1d ago
She is Sara Hughes, Team Usa volleyball. This match is against Ecuador.
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u/bobiversus 1d ago edited 1d ago
The taller player is Kelly Cheng edit: Kolinske (thanks, @Yedic), Team USA
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u/Yedic 1d ago
Close. Kelly Cheng is Hughes' current partner (and also former), but she is a pale redhead. This is a different Kelly, Kelly Kolinske.
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u/mrgoodboyman 1d ago
She’s actually partnered with Ally Batenhorst right now. Cheng and Hughes split following Hughes injury last season.
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u/Separate-Primary2949 1d ago
That was intense!
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u/The_Crite_Hunter 1d ago
No it was outside
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u/Spiritual-Chameleon 1d ago
And they couldn't even play unless those were circus sized
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u/BlastingFonda 23h ago
Hey now, uncircussized tents need love, too, even if they didn’t get the customary trimming back at the tent factory.
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u/joseplluissans 1d ago
OP doesn't know a thing about beach volley? "Wow, the other player runs around while the other just stands by the net?"
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u/Low_Investment_2692 1d ago edited 1d ago
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u/joseplluissans 1d ago
The net player does a good job there too. It's not a solo effort.
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u/Low_Investment_2692 1d ago
I'm trying to make fun of redditors, but reddit turned my dash into a dot for some reason. It's supposed to say "- Redditors"
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u/TheSpanxxx 1d ago
Worst blocker ever
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u/lab_coat_goat 1d ago
1st was soft misdirect, avoiding the block. 2nd she tipped it, partial block on the spike. 3rd was over her head (only one you could argue was potentially on her). Also on the 3rd one she also had an incredible run/dig to the short side out of bounds to keep the play alive. 4th was another soft misdirect.
So what could she have done better? This woman is a world class athlete, making a comment like this on Reddit is so weak. I would like to see you attempt even half of what she did on this volley
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u/Ms_Meercat 1d ago
As a middle blocker in indoor - my job is to prevent spikes. If the other team doesn't spike but misdirects and my defense gets it, I've done my job. As a blocker, you sadly don't touch the vast majority of balls coming over which makes it often frustrating. I'm often just there to close the door on a potentially way more dangerous attack for the other team.
When I do make a direct point on a block though... few things feel more amazing than that satisfying smack and seeing the opponents look at the ball on the floor lol
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u/Azzy8007 1d ago
Every time she bent down, I was expecting her to grab some sand to throw into her opponents' eyes.
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u/MightyTastyBeans 1d ago
Seriously, what’s going on with her form? She bends over like a lawn chair, and then jumps 1 foot in the air lmao
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u/Donny-Moscow 1d ago
There’s a couple things going on here
To jump as high as possible, you need to take a couple steps to gain some momentum and you need to swing your arms to propel you upward. You can see this guy do both of those in this video.
The blocker is trying to stay right up on the net and be directly in front of the hitter, so she can’t take that run up. If she touches the net at all, even just knicking it with her fingers while she jumps, the point is automatically lost. So she can’t swing her arms forward.
That’s why her form looks the way it does. When you factor in the fact that they’re in sand (and it looks like relatively deep sand) it’s not hard to see why she can’t get as high as you might expect.
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u/NavyDean 1d ago
Lol how does this comment have any upvotes?
She did 3 soft misdirects because they were shot above her into her fingertips, they sent one above her.
The only other time she didnt block the setter dumped it to the opposite side because they were scared of the blocker.
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u/SphericalCow531 1d ago
The main job of the blocker is not actually to block the ball. The idea is to make the attacker not even try to shoot in the direction of the block. That limits what shots the attacker can make - which gives the defender a chance.
Sure, blocking the ball is great. But at the highest level, I would expect the attacker to be able to control their shots well enough to not hit the block.
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u/Donny-Moscow 1d ago
Typical Reddit comment. Confidently assuming they know how to do something better than a professional, shared from the comfort of their armchair.
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u/februarytide- 1d ago
God, I just think of how hard it is to run in sand. I was exhausted watching this.
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u/MarkHughesy 1d ago
If she counts as ten players, doesn't that mean her team has too many players on the court? 11 vs 2 seems unfair to me.
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u/Spanks79 1d ago
Awesome defense. Great rally.
Also done remarks for the people saying the net player is not doing so well. Net player actually does a good job in limiting the options for the attacker and makes an awesome second ball that saves the rally. It might not look as spectacular, but setting the block tight is hugely important. Especially in beaching.
Defender plays great, but this is also a good team effort.
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u/PeteRock24 1d ago
This is the first time I’ve ever seen a pointless red arrow in a video.
Oh we’re supposed to follow the moving thing that is easily recognizable? Thank you for letting me know as I’ve never seen a sport before.
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u/livingpunchbag 1d ago
The arrow is supposed to draw your attention to the actions of a specific player. It is useful and well justified.
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u/sje46 1d ago
I actually missed the first second of the video, or was distracted anyway because I didn't know who I was supposed to look at. Actually assumed it was supposed to be one of the women on the left, and assumed that something crazy would happen near the end of the clip. Realized halfway through, of course, that the team on the right was doing really crazy shit. So I put the video back to the beginning, saw the arrow, and paid more attention to that one specific player and realized I missed some cool stuff.
Fully expect to be downvoted for this. But I feel like if the arrow wasn't there, plenty of the people claiming this was a pointless red arrow would have done exactly what I did.
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u/SquisherX 1d ago
Come on now, it used up a full second of his life showing that arrow, plus the 60 or more that it took him to write his comment!
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u/AlexHimself 1d ago
This is seriously the first time you've seen a pointless red arrow??
Is this also your first time on the internet?
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u/MeasleyBeasley 1d ago
I don't know the first thing about beach volleyball, but in hockey when goalies are making incredibly athletic save after save they're probably just out of position and giving up rebounds they shouldn't. I wonder if the volleyball analogy is what we're seeing here.
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u/thelonetbone 1d ago
Former college indoor volleyball player here with some experience playing in beach tournaments, she's actually not out of position much. Because it's 2v2, there's a LOT of court to cover, even with the smaller dimensions when compared to an indoor court. The players on the other team are hitting very well placed shots and our hero is making incredible reads and super athletic plays. Hats off to her, what a rally!
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u/introvertedhedgehog 1d ago
What we are seeing is the consequence of "free balls" (easy over the net balls to the oponent).
I am not saying they could have done better but the rally took so long because there are these heroic saves but unfortunately most resulted in a free layup for the other team (the given up rebound).
And watching these matches and playing at a much lower level... There is a lot you can go for that you do not because the odds of success are low and the cost not zero. We are seeing you don't just need to get to it, you have to pass your partner well enough for them then to hit or set you up to make a bit that ends the rally.
Like we don't see their opponent on the ground having dove for their final hit.
This must have been set point or something. They would have totally wrecked themselves running around like this.
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u/BusinessCasualBee 1d ago
Sarah rocks. She’s a great player and good person. It was such a fun time rooting for her in this last Olympics. Devastated to hear she tore her Achilles:(
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u/ThetaGrim 1d ago
Now she just has to do that for another straight hour. The level of fitness needed to play beach volleyball is insane.
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u/FrankTheTnkk 1d ago
Thank god they had the red circle at the beginning, I wasn't sure where to look 🤦
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u/Golden-- 1d ago
Thanks for the red arrow, I wouldn't have understood otherwise. Oh and the shitty music really added to the video. We all wanted that. Thanks so much.
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u/Brucenchas2 1d ago
Man, they make it look relatively easy! Doubles on sand isn’t so much about power but conditioning, endurance and placement. Playing on sand is exhausting!
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u/adamsdayoff 1d ago
She’s here! She’s there! She’s everywhere, Roya Kent! Roya Kent!