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  1. 1 hour ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    So basically a knuckleball serve. That’s how I would always serve when I played volleyball, but I didn’t pay attention to where the valve was. A knuckleball serve seems to have the best accuracy to receiving difficulty ratio of any serve and I wish we utilized it more 

    Yeah. Watching good float serves from the general perspective of the receiver is crazy. The ball shifts around in the air in an unpredictable way. 

  2. Not Texas Volleyball related but we seem to have some very knowledgeable folks on here about the game.

    What would you say is the most effective serve for a player to learn? My daughter is playing 14U this year. Her serve has developed a lot over the last two years. 2 years ago she could get the ball over the net about 5% of the time from the service line and those would be dribblers that tape. Now she can consistently get hard serves crossing the net within 24” from the top of the net and landing deep (25’ or so).

    She’s been working on spot serving and trying to learn both Float and Topspin. Her placement right now is pretty darn good. She can hit corners and lines within 18” or so with some velocity. But Float has been challenging for her to learn and frankly I don’t know that she jumps high enough for Topspin to be really beneficial.

    But what skills do you guys see as most beneficial at this level? Jump? Float? Topspin? Short? Placement? Low to the net? I know they’re not mutually exclusive but just factors that she’s been working on.

  3. 17 hours ago, SL Xpress said:

    I think Abby Gaido may be the prettiest volleyball player we've ever had on the team. Her profile pic is fine, but when she shows up on camera she stands out. 

    I will say they featured Madisen Skinner in a close up during the match, and she's an incredible looker, too. 

    I don’t understand why Molly Phillips isn’t in contention.

  4. 11 minutes ago, Im_smarter_then_you said:

    California still has football?

     

     

    Mater Dei was one of three Trinity League teams opening in Florida. St. John Bosco won 31-0 on Friday night in a game halted at halftime because of lightning. There was also lightning for Mater Dei’s game that delayed the start by one hour. 

    Orange Lutheran made it a Trinity League sweep in Florida with a 17-13 win over Miami Northwestern. Reagan Loki threw two touchdown passes to Nico Bland.

    Elder daughter's high school team played Mater Dei during their Freshman year. Her boyfriend at the time was a center on our high school Frosh team. Not a big kid. I think he was around 5'6" 170# or something like that in his Freshman year. The Nose for Mater Dei's Freshman team was about 6'3" and probably pushing 300#. He would pick our player up by the neck and throw him into the ground and choke him.

    Our school, lost something like 42-0.

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  5. Yeah. Sorry I misworded it. I still think it would be a great trip but I did want and wanted my kids to see the glaciers before they were much less grand. Alaska itself was pretty amazing overall. We also have a house in Tahoe, which is not comparable at all but we have a place for mountains and snow to go to regularly.

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  6. 14 hours ago, lilMAC25 said:

    What? Man it will STILL be worth it.

    I'm not sure.

    When we were in Seward we were planning on making a trip to the Exit Glacier as its own activity. We got to the RV Park early enough and close enough that we just went that same day/night. They've built a whole state park around the Exit Glacier as an attraction and it was completely underwhelming. It basically just looks like some snow on a hill. It was obviously much larger and grander years ago according to the maps they have along the trail. So we just ended up seeing a small glacier, getting rained on and being bitten by bugs.

    I don't regret seeing it but I am also happy we didn't make it a "trip" unto itself. It was very uninteresting. Contrasted with the amazing Glacier viewing we had later it made it pale in comparison even worse than our initial impression of it.

  7. 3 hours ago, Hagbard Celine said:

    i think the depressing comment is about the crystal blue water

    the northwest passage is navigable today

    the arctic may melt completely next summer

    https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/approach/monitoring/sea-ice/2025/briefing-on-arctic-and-antarctic-sea-ice---august-2025

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    Arctic sea ice extent on 4th August 2025, with 1981-2010 average extent indicated in orange, and the regions referred to in the text labelled.

    We just got back from an amazing RV and cruise trip to Alaska before the kids started school. I kept telling my family that I’ve always wanted to do it and frankly, I’m not sure how much longer it’ll be worth doing for the kids before the glaciers are diminished or gone.

    I have video of some of the most amazing glacier calving out there. A couple huge chunks that were several hundred tons breaking off.

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  8. 11 hours ago, Daichee Bell said:

    Josh Hoover has entered the chat.

     

     

     

    this has gotta be fake.

     

    So my younger daughter just finished her first season of club volleyball. Some genius at the Northern 
    California Volleyball Association books a tournament at the San Jose Convention Center each season concurrently with Furrycon. I guess it must be the cheapest weekend you can book the venue since most others wouldn’t want to be exposed to it. Having a bunch of teen and pre-teen girls intentionally intermingling with furries makes sense in some world.

    This year we were PM wave for the tournament on the first day. I was texting with a friend whose kid was playing AM wave and he was talking about how freaky Furrycon was. I laughed it off because it’s so absurd. But when we got there in the afternoon I understood what he meant. It’s somehow funny in theory, but when there are enough of those weird sweaty nerds in one place to easily overpower and kill you it becomes less entertaining.

    My kid needed to find a bathroom when we left that first night at 11pm (fucking volleyball tournament scheduling). It gets creepier at night when they’re making “night clubs” in the halls and they’re at the point where they’re removing their heads and just loitering around.

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  9. 16 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:



    I could SO raise UT's photography game. 

    I think what we need is some sort of still photography version of The Volume. A huge video wall with side walls and a ceiling. Give the recruits the choice of what amazing background they want their visit photo to be. For Photograph it's infinitely easier since it doesn't have to camera track or even animate.

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