tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15972853.post1181429114733469062..comments2023-05-07T13:25:55.908+02:00Comments on I Heart Volley: Triumphant ReturnJordanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09336399903937063249noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15972853.post-86094966105174577732008-09-27T23:08:00.000+02:002008-09-27T23:08:00.000+02:00Finally someone realized it! Thank god.One of the ...Finally someone realized it! Thank god.<BR/><BR/>One of the problems is, as you mentioned, not many of the kids know anything about the elite players. Also, many of them are scared of the elite players in the big clubs they play in (I know that for a fact from myself when I was younger and from those kids I help train and trains with). I often hear some of the younger ones say things like "look! It's Shaun! He’s that guy from Canada" They really think he’s cool, but then they try to avoid him, thinking he might eat them.<BR/><BR/>One of the big problems with introducing the young players to the elite games, is that there is no contact between those two groups. Not even in marienlyst.<BR/><BR/>We seriously need contact between those two groups! Not much is done for young players, just take marienlyst, your own club. We once had over 30 kids running around playing kidsvolley, now, there are 4-5, not much for a one of the biggest volleyclubs in Denmark. Also, on my team, we are about 22-25 players, and we are only about 5 who knows what real volley looks like.<BR/><BR/>Me and a few of my team-mates help out at EVERY game played in marienlyst, hoping someone will notice us and think we do a great job. But not even that can make people open their eyes for us and help us. All we get is, sorry for my way of saying it, a damn lousy bottle of soda!!<BR/><BR/><BR/>If you one day have time, we could arrange something with you coming to help the u15-u17 team or something, we kind of lack the expertise with setting,. And it could be cool for the new players to see how real volley is played. It would be really cool, I’m a big fan of you myself.<BR/> <BR/><BR/>Maybe you can help us change it and make the interest for volleyball bigger? Please?<BR/><BR/>Ps. I just have to write this, so you really realize how much one single practice, with an elite, can do. <BR/>When you came to Marienlyst, for the first year to play on the team, you came to one of the kids trainings and played a match with me and my old team-mates. That made such a huge impression on me and from that time I decided I wanted to be a setter, like you, become just as good and nothing else is good enough for me than that, and I have become a setter, a damn good one too, just because of that one little time about 4 years ago, think about it. <BR/>If you can change one persons view on volleyball that much, with just one time playing with them, think about how much you can do with helping out several times?<BR/><BR/>That's just my opinion. I really hope and have faith in you can help. I think i speak for a lot of young players.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15972853.post-37522405635316642632008-09-17T07:52:00.000+02:002008-09-17T07:52:00.000+02:00so, when i was a sophomore and you were a freshman...so, when i was a sophomore and you were a freshman, and i was trying a second time to make the team, did you want to be like me? <BR/><BR/>coolAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com