For Christmas and New Year’s Eve, we had the visit of two couples of travelers: Julia and Kaya from Berlin, GER, who came to BeachVolleyCenter to complete their four months journey before taking the airplane back home, and Sandra and Alex, from Lausanne, SUI, who have cut their two-month journey by a week of intense beach volleyball with us. 2012 has started under the sign of the sand, sweat, and promising progresses.
Julia and Kaya, both from Berlin, are in a four months travel. They will spend a few days with us at Christmas to enjoy the beaches of our region, but basically to make a beach volleyball camp in our training center. This mixture with our Brazilian hosts will certainly be explosive, and will leave little rest to the balls. A good way to finish the year at the net !
For those for whom the holiday on a beach are not synonymous with a deck chair and inactivity, the BeachVolleyCenter offers you the opportunity to realize your dream: the sun in the middle of the winter, a warm colored tropical sea, and beach volleyball. From those who want to discover this sport through an initiation to seasoned players allready participating in the competition, everyone will find partners/opponents of his level, so that these sports holidays will be unforgettable. The fans of the beach volleyball of Cumuruxatiba, pictured above (lack Gabriel Magno and Romualdo), from15 to 50 years old, are waiting for you! Zip around our site and discover what may be the menu for your next winter vacation.
The efforts of these two weeks of basketball ended for Ioane by owning the Trophy awarded to the improved player of the camp. Ioane, but also discovered another reality of this sport, a game of contact and muscles, where the lack of weight and experience make a lot of difference. But the dream will not last long, today a new challenge in the sand is waiting for us in Gerlafingen, where we will participate in our third tournament. Hopefully, despite the fatigue accumulated, we will represent with dignity the Beach Volleyball Center.
The arrival of Eric Gordon, rising star of the Los Angeles Clippers and starter of the U.S. team that won the last world championships in Turkey in 2010, have imposed us a break in the training session for a “photo”. I slipped without being noticed in the group of Ioane, in the emotion of the moment, no one has noticed a slightly wrinkled player … Very accessible, Eric Gordon was the joy of the “campers“ who have able to follow him throughout the day.
After a week of basketball, we had a new meeting with the sand in Grenchen, SO. The tournament was held in the rain and an icy wind, which meant we had played with jacket and pants. A defeat in the second round against the number one forced us to play the loosers bracket We met later insemi-final the same team against whom we lost due to a scam of the organization. Believing to be in the final, we drew our strength to win after a tiebreak. What was our surprise to learn that we still play the final … Fortunately we had less difficulty to impose on us, winning our second tournament in a row. Next tournament will be on next Sunday in Geneva. And we are already back for a week of basketball.
After a week of intense beach volleyball in the Bernese Alps, Gstaad, where we have followed this grand slam of the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour, dominated by Alison / Emanuel who seem to be the team of the moment, we changed sport. We took part of the largest basketball camp in Europe. Not less than 32 countries are represented during these two weeks by more than 1000 fans of the basket. And it runs like clockwork, you must be in the oven and the mill, from the opening check-in (see photo) to the closing ceremony, along a fantastic week.
The first tournament for our team BeachVolleyCenter held this Saturday at the Beach Center of Bern where the Heuscher/Heyer/Laciga/Bellaguarda and the other stars of the Swiss beqch volleyball use to practice. In the absence of big names already on the warpath in Gstaad preparing the FIVB grand slam that will take place next week, Ioane / jeF, ranked last, in turn dominated all the favorites to win undefeated and without losing a set. That let us believe that this mixture of a 15 year old and a 50 year old still has a bright future 
Final preparations before we left for our crusade in Europe, we printed today a series of t-shirts in the colors of BeachVolleyCenter. This tour will allow us, in fact, meet new faces, beachers who we will try to motivate to come and train with our group in Brazil. It is also the first time a team from our training center will participate in official tournaments. We will let you follow through our blog this familial saga of a fiftieth, who didn’t yet understand he should have stop a long time ago, and his son, 35 years yunger, and who dreams to join in the futur the small circle of the best players of the beach volleyball world.
A few days early the start of the FIVB World Tour in Brasila, the new generation of the BeachVolleyCenter refines its fundamentals over the sand beneath a radiant sun. Their eyes full of dreams will observe next week every detail of the game of those Brazilian and foreign athletes, who will already compete in this first stop of the 2011 season for the qualification for the Olympics Games of London 2012. A passion for all, a life for some of them !