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Xminus6

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  1. On 12/10/2025 at 9:10 AM, Js1 said:

    Go look at the list of pro players whose daughters are playing or played NCAAVB. It’s been noted more girls are going for volleyball due to fewer injuries than basketball 

    Spears

    Skinner

    O’Neal

    Duncan

    Ewing

    Booth

    Jurevicious

    Rondo

    Steph’s daughter plays here in the Bay as well.

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    1 hour ago, perfectchaos007 said:

    Cal Poly has a server that booms her serve, maybe harder than Parra. USC is struggling to side out when she's serving. 

    Yeah. Those serves were crazy. It honestly looked like a men’s team serve. I think she had a 6 point streak in the final set.

  3. 4 hours ago, closetojumping said:

    I don't trust restaurants or bars below a certain type of reputation to make me martinis or manhattans, that includes the workers at DKR. Virgin bloody marys, followed by JD/diet coke for me, if I'm drinking. 

    It's crazy you posted this. Growing up around the poverty line, my older brother bought this while working his first job and had it hanging on his wall until he left for Texas. I took over his room and kept that picture with me from there, to Texas, to my various apartments working start-ups in Houston. He thought he'd lost it. I gave it back to him like 10 years ago and he has it hanging in his office at his home to this day. 

    My brother had that poster hanging in his room too. It’s so obnoxiously funny.

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    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. 

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    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.

  6. 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.

  7. 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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    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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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

    image.thumb.png.39821d98120978573148f4b3734b3de7.png

    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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