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Alzadar
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Doctorbeat
Netherlands13241 Posts
On February 22 2014 05:49 Alzadar wrote: I hated volleyball, my puny gamer arms can't withstand the force of a volleyball, it's painful. Lots of technique involved in hitting the ball well. Took me quite a while to get anywhere decent. | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On February 22 2014 05:28 Doctorbeat wrote: I really shouldn't have gone to see 12 Years A Slave today, my mood is ruined for LCS. On the whole medal count thing: Golds count way more than any other medal. Winning is more important than competing, any high level athlete who's competing for Olympic gold knows this. A very American way to see things, and imo the best one. And tennis > badminton > pingpong, no argument possible. As a tennis player, I agree. | ||
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red_
United States8474 Posts
On February 22 2014 05:49 Alzadar wrote: I hated volleyball, my puny gamer arms can't withstand the force of a volleyball, it's painful. Volleyball is like all technique aside from your ability to jump and cover space on defense. I know some incredibly skinny, lanky dudes that can hit the fuck out of the ball and dig anything hit at them. Now, if you are like 5'9" or shorter then I can see hating volleyball. | ||
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Alzadar
Canada5009 Posts
On February 22 2014 06:01 red_ wrote: Volleyball is like all technique aside from your ability to jump and cover space on defense. I know some incredibly skinny, lanky dudes that can hit the fuck out of the ball and dig anything hit at them. Now, if you are like 5'9" or shorter then I can see hating volleyball. Nah I'm like 184cm. Maybe my technique was wrong but I did what everyone always said and it just hurts lol. | ||
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
On February 22 2014 06:07 Alzadar wrote: Nah I'm like 184cm. Maybe my technique was wrong but I did what everyone always said and it just hurts lol. 6.03675 ft | ||
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caelym
United States6421 Posts
On February 22 2014 06:07 Alzadar wrote: Nah I'm like 184cm. Maybe my technique was wrong but I did what everyone always said and it just hurts lol. I took a volleyball PE class. After a while your forearms got numb and used to it. It was a lot of fun, but being short sucked. | ||
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BlackPaladin
United States9316 Posts
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Gahlo
United States35154 Posts
On February 22 2014 05:48 mordek wrote: Gahlo is a sensitive and strong man ok? I just think it's more fun to pick on the bullies. :D | ||
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On February 22 2014 06:13 BlackPaladin wrote: I'm only 5'8. Volleyball was butts in PE. Libero's are usually pretty short. No excuses. | ||
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ComaDose
Canada10357 Posts
i loved playing that shit in tourneys, in like middle school, till everyone was better than me. | ||
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mordek
United States12704 Posts
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
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Shelke14
Canada6655 Posts
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kainzero
United States5211 Posts
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jcarlsoniv
United States27922 Posts
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mordek
United States12704 Posts
Shelke, are you going to bail next friday as well? | ||
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red_
United States8474 Posts
On February 22 2014 06:26 wei2coolman wrote: Libero's are usually pretty short. No excuses. I don't know that I've ever met a guy who started playing volleyball thinking 'I'm going to be a sick libero.' I know some girls that took to it early because they start organized play earlier in general, but dudes not so much. Generally a libero is a guy that was a setter or a super athletic hitter that finally reached a level of play where not being 6'4" starts to just be too much to overcome, even with a sick vertical(probably because the 6'4 dudes are now all jumping just as high). Also, even most national level liberos are like 6 feet tall. I mean, the libero for the US men's national team that won in Beijing was 6'4." Even basketball is historically a more 'short person' friendly sport than volleyball. | ||
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On February 22 2014 06:58 red_ wrote: I don't know that I've ever met a guy who started playing volleyball thinking 'I'm going to be a sick libero.' I know some girls that took to it early because they start organized play earlier in general, but dudes not so much. Generally a libero is a guy that was a setter or a super athletic hitter that finally reached a level of play where not being 6'4" starts to just be too much to overcome, even with a sick vertical(probably because the 6'4 dudes are now all jumping just as high). Also, even most national level liberos are like 6 feet tall. I mean, the libero for the US men's national team that won in Beijing was 6'4." Even basketball is historically a more 'short person' friendly sport than volleyball. NO EXCUSES. | ||
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