Luxembourg Beachvolley

Blog has moved

2011-05-09T23:38:00.000+02:00

Thanks for visiting - but this blog will be no longer updated.

Please have a look at my new blog: http://lucertolabeach.blogspot.com/

The philosophy will stay the same - beach is life, life is a beach :-)

Good news for Beachvolley in Luxembourg

2008-12-30T23:29:00.005+01:00

There are some really great news to announce in these last days of 2008 - the FLVB (Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Volleyball) has found an agreement with a group of motivated beachvolley-players and a new Beachvolley-Commission has been formed inside the structure of the FLVB.

After some weeks, the first results of the new FLVB-Beach-Commission are already visible:

- a brand new FLVB-Internetpage for everything that concerns Beachvolley has been created. This site will officially been launched by the FLVB for the Novotel Cup the next week-end, but is already online. To have a look, just click on the following link: www.beach.flvb.lu

- we have got official confirmation that discussions between the ministry of sports and the city of Esch/Alzette are under way, in order to construct an Indoor-Beachvolleyball-Hall. A working group has been formed and Norma Zambon, as a member of the FLVB-Beach-Commission and well known athlete, will be consulted as Beachvolley-expert.

- the date for the 2009 National Beachvolley-Championship can already be confirmed. After 2008, where no championship coud be organised, for 2009, you can book the week-end of the 11th and 12th July in your agendas for this event. Location and organization details are still in discussion, but more information will be available soon.

So, I invite you to have a look at www.beach.flvb.lu to meet the new Beach-team of the FLVB. For any questions about Beachvolley, they will always be at your service. For any beach-news, this new site will be the right place to get serious and actual information.

As you noticed, my blog was not updated as regularly as it used to be, because a lot of work had to be done for the new FLVB Internet page. But I will keep it alive to give you my personal view of the small luxemburgish Beachvolley world (with some crackling rumours, who knows) - the first adress for brand hot news will be the new FLVB-Beach-site.

I wish you a lot of fun on tomorrow's New Year's Eve, a healthy and happy 2009 and a lot of success in Beachvolley.

See you soon on a Beach-Court - spring is not so far away as you think,

Happy New Year,
La lucertola

New homepage of the team Schneider-Zambon

2008-09-06T19:20:00.002+02:00

Our one and only international women-team has a new homepage.

Looks quite good, and you can find there a lot of information about the team and their tournaments, as well as about beachvolley activities in Luxembourg.

Have a look !!

Update of the Beachcourt List

2008-09-06T19:14:00.004+02:00

The two beachcourts in Weiler, available in Summer, for some time already, have been added in the list. For those who want to go there, Weiler is a small location between Hosingen and Vianden, in the north of the country.

Every year, a beachvolley-tournament for Hobby-Players is also organised, end of July.

Season 2008 almost finished in Luxembourg

2008-09-06T18:51:00.007+02:00

Hello all,

it's true that over the summer I didn't have a lot of time to spend to my blog, to announce you some more beachvolley news. But I suppose, you were also training a lot and playing tournaments on the weekends and you didn't have the time to sit in front of your computer.

I definitely had the feet in the sand quite every day :-))

I hope you enjoyed your beachvolley season and you had the results you expected. But first of all that you had a lot of fun. As every summer, I got in contact with some new people and I realized that the beachvolley family in Luxembourg is still growing.

There is a good old slogan in sport that says "After the season is before the season" and this is especially true for beachvolleyball, where you have to organize, with your partner, your trainings, your tournaments and perhaps your beachvolley-travels of the next season.

That's a lot of work and you must be careful to start in time.

Autumn and winter months are the best therefore and so the preparation of the season 2009, for me, will start in October.

I hope I can give you, over the winter, once again some interesting news, some useful tips and some precious contact adresses to participate in beachcamps, tournaments and other events. (Don't forget: 2009 is the year of the BEACHVOLLEY WORLDCHAMIONSHIP in Stavanger from 26th June to 5th July).

But for the moment, I will give myself two weeks of holidays in Corsica and I'll be back again to organizational work for the 2009-season, in October.

See you in October !!

Perhaps there will already be some very interesting news ;-)
La lucertola

Beckerich organizes its first Beachvolley Tournaments

2008-06-08T21:11:00.003+02:00

Beckerich has joined the Beachvolley Community and organizes for its first year 4 Tournaments. Congratulations to the club for its dynamism and the will to establish itself as a real Beachvolleyclub.

The tournaments are on the following dates and has been added to the tournament list:

14th june: 2x2 Mixte
15th june: 4x4 Hobby

12th and 13th july: 2x2 Mixte and 4x4 Hobby

Please help us to make their tournaments a big success so that they will become a fixed "Rendez-vous" for the follwing years: engage a team or simply pass in Beckerich to have a drink and some fun.

The Montpellier Beach-Masters has started today !

2008-05-08T23:40:00.002+02:00

The 4th edition of the very popular Beachvolleyball-Festival, organized by the Montpellier Beachvolley, has started today in the heart of the city on the "Comédie"-square.

For more information and the detailed programme, just have a look at the official website: Beach Masters 2008

See you in south of France...

Superb weather for the first Beachvolley-tournament 2008

2008-04-27T23:32:00.007+02:00

After some days of silence, to pay homage to our beloved Deni, life has to go on and the time has come to concentrate again on the starting beachseason 2008.

The exhibition tournament in Strassen on the 27th april was globally a great success with 4 teams very satisfied with the organisation and the location as well as the preparation they could get from this tournament.

After some tight matches, the final was played between the Lieckens Sisters and our Beachqueens, Jeanne and Norma. After a hard-fought first set that the Lieckens Sisters won 26 by 24, the second one was a bit clearer, and Jeanne and Norma had to accept the second place in the final ranking.

The second luxemburgish team Mander-Gudmannsson are also starting quite well in their first beachvolley-season and won a set against the team Beken-Beken.

Here the detail of the results:

The positive feedback we got from this tournament was great and we will try to organize this tournament once again in 2009. The idea to let the second court at the disposal of the spectators will also be maintained for the next year, unless we need it for the progression of the tournament.

In memoriam Denitza "Deni" Krivova

2008-04-27T23:27:00.009+02:00

This weekend, the luxembourgish Volleyball-World has lost one of its ever most talented an ambitious player, in a cruel car-accident, Saturday in the early morning hour.

Denitza Krivova

15.01.1990 - 26.04.2008

Deni, we will always keep you in our heart and we will, forever, remember your positive thinking and your shining smile. We are very sorrow that we can never again laugh with you on a Beachvolleycourt.

So we are really sad to have lost you, but we are very happy that we had the chance to know you.

In your very short life you left an inerasable trace.

My sincere condolences are going to Antonia and Ranguel: you can be very proud of your daughter, of what she achieved and of what she represents for so many of us.

Rest in peace, Freizeit-Deni

New changes in the tournament calendar

2008-04-24T18:40:00.005+02:00

The following changes have been made to the calendar:

1) the club of Bonnevoie has decided to organize his 2x2 Tournament in Cessange (5th July) as a 2x2 Mixed Tournament, and not as a Women- and Men-Tournament as planned in the beginning.
To participate, just click on the link and you can registrate online: www.vcbonnevoie.com

2) Another 4x4 Hobby-Tournament will be organized on 27th July in Weiler in the region of Clervaux

3) As last year, the "Syndicat d'initiative" will organize a 4x4 Hobby Beachtournament at Diekirch-Plage.
Date: 10th August
Indoor swimming-pool and delicious cocktails are waiting for you.

Please note that on 14th August, a "Tropical Heat"-Party will be hold in Diekirch-Plage. Beginning at 20:00.

Another Beachvolleycamp in Montpellier from 17th to 25th May

2008-04-14T21:06:00.004+02:00

Being back only for about two weeks, and the weather here in Luxembourg being awful every day, we decided to go back to Montpellier for another camp.

The camp will take place from 17th to 25th may, but the length of your stay in south of France can be decided by your own, if you want to stay for holidays.

The training sessions will start on Monday 18th may and stop on Friday 24th. These sessions will focus on individual techniques and not on physical strength and condition (see our report from 1st April below).

Eventually, there will even be a possibility to play a tournament on Saturday 25th may (to be confirmed).

So we have to be at the Beach-Academy at least on Monday morning, but if you want you can travel to Montpellier some days earlier as the Academy will organise its annual "Montpellier Beach Masters" in the heart of the city.

The Beach Masters are well known to be a big event with tournaments, training sessions, beach ambiance and a lot of party. So don't miss this event from 8th to 18th may.

If you are interested to join us, or if you have some further questions (travelling, hotel, price,...), just mail me (cposing@pt.lu) and you will receive an invitation with further details.

Montpellier Beachvolley / City of Montpellier

Everyone is welcome !!

Beachvolley-equipment for sale !

2008-04-12T14:04:00.005+02:00

The new season approaching, you need perhaps some adequate equipment to practice your favourite sport?

So if this is the case, just come to the exhibition tournament in Strassen (27/04 10:00-17:30) where "volleyballdirekt" has a selling stand where you can order Beachvolleyballs, Beachsocks or other equipment as clothes, bags or complete court equipment.

If you don't have the time to come to Strassen on 27th April, you can pass your order of the 3 following articles by sending me an e-mail (cposing@pt.lu)

Beachvolleyball Mikasa VLS 200 (official FIVB-ball):
44,95 EUR (39,45 EUR if ordering more than 5 balls)

Pump (Molten) for Beachvolleyballs: 5,90 EUR

Beachsocks Vincere (black or black/blue): 19,95 EUR

I will regroup the orders just to have the best possible price.

Exhibition tournament in Strassen

2008-04-12T11:55:00.006+02:00

To give the new season an official start, an exhibition tournament is organised in Strassen, the 27th April.

Start of the matches +/- 10:00
End of the tournament +/- 17:30

There will be four women teams competing in a pool-play-mode:

Jeanne SCHNEIDER - Norma ZAMBON (LUX)
Danielle MANDER - Annette GUDMANNSSON (LUX)
Kim LIECKENS - Ellen LIECKENS (BEL)
Ilke BEKEN - Joke BEKEN (BEL)

All games are on a single court. The second court in Strassen is at the free disposal of everyone who wants to play.

Free entry and presence of "volleyballdirekt" with a selling stand for volley- and beachvolleymaterial.

Big thanks to "eurobureau" and "SOBROLUX" for their financial support.

We are back from Montpellier !!

2008-04-01T23:37:00.006+02:00

Hello to all people who stayed here in Luxembourg in the cold and windy winter weather,

Sunday evening at 18:00, we came back from our Beachvolley Trainingcamp in Montpellier. As last year it was once again a really great experience.

After arriving, we spent nearly two days of relaxed sightseeing (Montpellier, Grau-du-Roi and Aigues-Mortes in the near Camargue).

On Monday the training sessions started. Every morning a session of about 1 hour and a half was planned with Ruben Barrera, the argentinien trainer of the Montpellier Beachvolley Academy. In the afternoons we had a beachcourt at our disposal for a further gameplay session on our own.

Focus was put on individual skills for passing, defending and blocking with the main part of the exercises concentrating on defense with the various possible techniques.

On Saturday, a tournament with some teams from the region of Montpellier was organised and we closed the event with some drinks to celebrate our friendship with the people of Montpellier Beachvolley.

Besides this, we could also get a glimpse of a very professional statistics program, as well as an example of a detailed training plan for a whole season.

A very special thanks to Stéphane Canet, Mathieu Hamel and Ruben Barrera for their help with all our questions about beachvolley, organisation, season planning and nutrition.

Another special thank to Joël for his huge generosity and useful hints.

And last but not least, from my side, a big compliment to Norma, Jeanne, Dani, Frank and Christian for their teamspirit. Without teamspirit, the organisation of such a camp would be very difficult.

And now a very good news for all those who missed this opportunity: a second training camp will be organised the week after Pentecost (approximately from 19th to 24th may)

If you are interested, just send an e-mail to: cposing@pt.lu

New tournament added by CHEV Diekirch

2008-04-01T23:16:00.002+02:00

The Volleyballclub of Diekirch has announced the date of his 4x4 Hobby Beachtournament:

12 July 2008, near the swimming hall.

So, reserve the date in your agenda and see you at Diekirch Plage to play some matches an to enjoy the tremendous cocktails.

For further details, please have a look at chev-volleyball.hot.lu

Ready to go to the Montpellier-Beachcamp !!

2008-03-21T01:13:00.002+01:00

Luggage is ready (or almost) and we all can't wait any longer to go down in the south to spend a great week with really tremendous people.

The Beachvolleyworld is a small village as you will notice in this video. It's possible to meet the very best of the world even as an average player from Luxembourg.

Emanuel and Stéphane Canet

See you beginning of April :-)

New date for the tournament in Wilwerwiltz

2008-03-19T21:20:00.003+01:00

The "Jeunesse Kiischpelt" has announced that their yearly Beachvolley-Tournament will take place on the 02nd and 3rd of August, and not, as announced in the Tournament Calendar, on the 09th and 10th of August.

Please update your agendas - Wilwerwiltz is definitely the place to be !!

Beachvolley Worldchampionship 2009 in Norway

2008-03-18T22:50:00.004+01:00

FIVB President Rubén Acosta announced on Friday that the 2009 SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball Men's and Women's World Championships will be hosted in Stavanger, Norway.

The 2009 SWATCH FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships are set to take place over 10 days on two courts from June 26 to July 5 as part of an innovative new tournament formula proposed by Stavanger, with total Prize Money of US$1 Million.

Surprisingly, the Beachvolleyball-Worldchampionship will be organized for the third time in a row in a European country, after Berlin in 2005 and Gstaad in 2007. Great news for european people !!

So, reserve some days of holidays and plan a trip to the south of Norway (+/- 1.400 kms).

See you in Stavanger in 2009 ...

Stormy Season Start in Strassen

2008-03-02T11:41:00.007+01:00

Yesterday, 1st March, the new Beachvolleyball season 2008 definitely started in Strassen with our first training session on the outdoor beachcourt. Even if it was a little bit windy, temperature was ok and it didn't rain. Not so bad finally for a first session in march.

It was really big fun to be on the beachcourt again. Thanks to Norma, Jeanne, Dani and Fitti.

Who said Beachvolleyball is only a summer sport??

Beachvolley Indoor: Training sessions continue...

2008-02-25T21:56:00.008+01:00

As for several weekends now on, a small group of 6 passionate beachvolleyplayers did, once again, take the time, two weeks ago, to travel to Niederkassel for some pre-season training sessions in the Indoor-Beachvolley-Hall.

But this time we wanted to try something new: a short Training-camp of two days.

So we left Luxembourg on Saturday 14:00 to be in Niederkassel right in time for the first training unit from 17:00 to 19:00, after checking in, in the hotel.

After the first practice, we spent the evening in an excellent Italian trattoria (Il Grappolo - Marktstrasse, 11 - Rheidt), before going to bed quite early.

On second day, the serious one, we did a first training unit from 10:00 to 12:00 and a second one from 13:00 to 15:00.

These 6 hours of training were quite demanding, but the intensity was well chosen for everybody to keep going just to the end. There were exercises to improve technique, without forgetting gameplay.

We all agreed that the 2-day-formula optimizes the relation between the travelling-time and the time on the beachcourts, and is finally more relaxing.

So, more weekends like this will probably follow.

If you like to know more, or if you want to participate, just write me an e-mail (cposing@pt.lu)

N.B. A great special "Thank you" to Friedrich for the perfect training units and to Jeanne for the professional travel agency service.

Beachcourt-List updated

2008-02-25T21:50:00.004+01:00

A new entry has been made in the Beachcourts-List:

The club of Beckerich has at its disposal two beachcourts just near the sports hall.
For further information please contact M. Tom Kirtz (691 849 838).

New update of the Tournament Calendar

2008-02-25T21:32:00.003+01:00

The Club of Esch had to change his traditional Tournament-date from 1st weekend of August to the weekend of 25th and 26th July.
For this reason, Walferdange had also to adapt and decided to organize their 2nd Mixed- and Hobby-Tournament on 19th and 20th July 2008.

The Tournament of Wilwerwiltz stays unchanged on the date of 8th and 9th August.

Just check the calendar for latest updates and more tournaments...

Tournament Calendar 2008 updated

2008-02-07T17:47:00.002+01:00

Check out the calendar (down on the right sidebar) for some new tournaments that have been added. The dates can still change a little bit, due to organizational reasons.

For more informations about the tournaments, simply click on the link to be directed to the Homepage of the organizer.

More tournaments will follow...

It's unbelievable, but Carlo Mach has left us

2008-02-05T22:25:00.001+01:00

It's with a great sadness I heared that, two days ago, Carlo Mach went to sleep from which he should never stay up again.

Carlo was a real sportsman, with complete commitment and a perfect life discipline and this way the perfect example for the younger generation. Regardless of his numerous successes in Volleyball-Championship, he never showed the slightest sign of arrogance.

Besides his passion and quite legendary successes in Volleyball, he also was a great Beachvolleyballplayer.

Carlo, I am honored to have had the occasion to play against you on a Beachcourt. I appreciated a lot your discrete way and your friendliness.

I wish you a very sunny Beachcourt up there on cloud number nine.

To all the familiy and friends of Carlo, my sincere condolences and deepest sympathy.

First tournament dates 2008 have been fixed !!

2008-02-04T23:29:00.001+01:00

Even if the beachvolley season starts only in April / May for most of people in Luxembourg, the clubs have to think about organisation as early as possible. So the first dates of tournaments in Luxembourg have already been released:

05 - 06 July:
The VC Bonnevoie will organise the Beach-As 2008 with a 2x2 tournament on saturday and a 4x4 Hobby-Tournament on Sunday.
Organizer: VC Bonnevoie (www.vcbonnevoie.com)
Location: Cessange

02 - 03 August:
As every year the almost traditional Luxembourg Beach Open for 4x4 Hobby-Teams will be played on the 1st week-end of August
Organizer: VC Esch (www.evbc.lu)
Location: Gaalgebierg in Esch / Alzette

09 - 10 August:
Big fun guaranteed at the most northern Beachvolley-Tournament in Luxembourg. On Saturday a 2x2 Mixed-Tournament will see a lot of good players in a very relaxed mood. The second day a 4x4 Hobby-Tournament will follow.
Be sure not to miss the nearly olympic swimming-pool, the mobile Cocktail-Bar and the really big party !!
Organizer: Jeunesse Kiischpelt (Marc Allard - beachvolley2006@yahoo.de)
Location: Kiischpelt near Wilwerwiltz

For further informations, please contact the clubs or have a look at their Internet-Homepage.

For new dates to be published, just check the calendar of this blog.

Weather forecast added !!

2008-02-02T17:04:00.001+01:00

From now on, you can have a look at the weather forecast for the city of Luxembourg (see in the sidebar at the right just below the tournaments calendar.

Very useful to plan the beachvolley sessions here in Luxembourg where nothing is less sure than sunny weather.

Even if it's not a reason to stop playing :-)

Trainingcamp of 9th and 10th february 2008

2008-01-28T23:06:00.000+01:00

The registration period to this small Beachvolleycamp has come to an end. Unfortunately there are no more places available.

But don't worry... new dates will be arranged...

Check this site regularly to get the dates for the next Indoor training sessions, coming soon.

New functions added on this Blog

2008-01-26T18:52:00.001+01:00

In order to make this Blog more comfortable, I have added two new features:

1) Search engine access
This allows you to search for information directly from the blog. The search results are regrouped in several categories: "This Blog", "Linked from here", "Interesting links" and "The Web".

2) E-mail newsletter service
A subscription to this service will send you an e-mail automatically whenever the blog is updated. You just have to confirm a registration e-mail from FeedBlitz that you will receive soon after encoding your e-mail adress on my blog.

Further improvements will follow....

Beachvolleycamp in Montpellier (23rd - 30th March 2008)

2008-01-21T23:36:00.000+01:00

Another big event will take place before the start of the Beachvolley season in Luxembourg!!

We are actually organizing, together with the Montpellier Beachvolley Academy, a Beachvolley-Camp for the first week of the Easter holidays.

Every day, from monday to friday, a training session will be held from approximately 9:00 to 12:00. In the afternoon, you will also have the possibility to play some matches on the courts of the academy.

The last day (saturday) a small tournament with people from the academy, the near region as well as from other countries will probably be organised.

The training sessions are focused on acquiring the basique techniques and are not too much demanding on a physical level. And if the training is really professional, the trainers always respect the different technical levels and possibilities of the participants - the sessions keep being big fun for everybody.

Price:
Training Camp: +/- 110 EUR
Hotel: 30 - 50 EUR per night and person (incl. breakfast), depending on the hotel vacancies
Travel costs: +/- 100 EUR (car or plane)

Besides the Beachvolley trainings, a lot of other activities are possible in Montpellier: shopping in the city, visits in the near region with the Cévennes natural parc and the Camargue, sailing, rowing, surfing or other watersports. So if you want to take your wife / husband / girlfriend... with you, no problem to get them occupied while you are at the Beachvolleycamp.

If you are interested, please let me know as soon as possible (deadline: 31st january). I will send you a detailed invitation with more informations. For further questions, just contact me by mail (cposing@pt.lu).

So, call your boss, fix a week of holidays for Easter and join us in Montpellier - city where the sun never sets !!

Beach Indoor training sessions have started !!

2008-01-21T23:20:00.001+01:00

The two first training sessions this winter in an Indoor-Beachvolley-Hall have been hold Sunday 13. january and Sunday 20. january.

The first one has been in Wallau and the second one in Niederkassel, which seems to be the better place as it has 6 courts, heated sand and cheeper rental fees.

Both weekends, training was composed by 2 sessions of approximately 1,5 hours, where the first one concentrated on technical training and the second one on gameplay.

This was really great fun and we decided to organize a small Beachvolleycamp for the weekend of 9th and 10th febrauary, once again in Niederkassel. Program will be the following: one session of 2 hours on Saturday late afternoon and 2 sessions of 2 hours Sunday morning and early afternoon.

There is still one place available - so just send me an e-mail if you want to participate.

Restart of the Beachvolley Indoor Training sessions

2007-12-29T10:51:00.000+01:00

As last winter, we will once again organise indoor training sessions from january to march / april, depending on the weather in Luxembourg.

Where?
Indoor training centre in Wallau or Niederkassel. Both Beach Halls are aproximately 220 kms from Luxembourg and can be reached in +/- 2 hours by car.

When?
Saturdays or Sundays, every time when there are enough people (min. 4 players)

Time planning? (Proposal)
Departure at 08:00
Playing time from +/- 11:00 to 13:00 / 14:00
Lunch from +/- 13:30 / 14:00 - 14:30
Back in Luxembourg at +/- 16:30 / 17:00
This planning can of course be changed on request.

Organization of training session?
First 1 hour of exercises just to heat up and to exercise basic techniques. After this there will be 1 - 2 hours of gameplay.

Cost?
Beachcourt: 25 EUR / hour (Niederkassel) or 40 EUR / hour (Wallau)
(plus fuel, food and beverages)

Who is invited?
Everyone who has a passion for Beachvolleyball, a minimum of technique and physical condition and the will to do 1 hour of exercises before playing. It's only this way you can make some progress.

If you have some more questions, or if you want to participate, just make me an e-mail (cposing@pt.lu).

So join us for a whole-year-beachvolley-season....

Montpellier Beach Masters 2008 - 4th edition from 8th to 18th May

2007-12-29T09:32:00.000+01:00

As every year now since 2004, the Montpellier Beachvolley Academy will organise its great Beachvolleyball event on the Place de la Comédie, in the heart of Montpellier, the city where the sun never sets.

This year, you can expect 11 days of perfectly organised tournaments and events from 8th to 18th may with about 500 players and 250.000 spectators !!

Below, you can see an overview of the programme of this year's Beach Masters, with a particular celebration - the 10th anniversary of the Final France - Brazil in 1998:

The Montpellier Beachvolley Academy has been created by Stéphane Canet and Mathieu Hamel with the philosophy to be a Beachvolleyballclub opened to everybody, from beginners and occasional players just up to the professional players from the FIVB World Tour, and this completely independent of the country you are living in.

There is really a great sense of human relationship combined with a very high level of competence and passion for Beachvolleyball.

So just don't miss this exceptional event in the very beautiful city of Montpellier:

great sport, big fun, beautiful girls and marvellous people guaranteed !!

For further information about the Beach Masters 2008 or the Montpellier Beachvolley Academy, please contact me at cposing@pt.lu

Don't stay away - see you there in May !!

FIVB World Tour Calendar for 2008

2007-11-10T11:54:00.001+01:00

A new tentative calendar for the 2008 FIVB World Tour has been published on the FIVB Beach Homepage.

For each tournament a link will guide you to the detailed informations.

So if you want to follow the results of the professional teams, set by set, this is where you get information about TV schedule, entry list of the teams, qualification results and main draw results, not to forget a lot of high quality photos.

And if you want to plan your holidays for next year, you can already have a look at the dates of the different tournaments and find all useful details about hotels, maps, ticketing and so on.

For more information about visiting such an event, you can also write me an e-mail.

Direct link to the calendar !!

So, just have a regular look and enjoy the 2008 season !

New Beach-Courts in Luxembourg !!

2007-10-26T19:52:00.000+02:00

Very good news for Beachvolleyball in Luxembourg: next season two new Beachvolley-Spots will be available.

First, it's the city of Pétange-Lamadelaine that has joined the list of cities with a Beachvolleyball-infrastructure. Two new courts are situated in the "Rue du vieux moulin" and are administrated by the "Club de Loisirs Echelsbaach". The courts will be opened from mai to october from 9:00 a.m. to 22:00.

To make a reservation, just call the following phone number:

M. Fornella Mauro

L-4875 Lamadelaine
34, Grousswiss

Tél. 50 17 27

At Leudelange, the city-council has decided this week to construct a new sport- and leisure complex at the location called "Schwéngsweed". This new complex will be composed of one Multisport-field, grandstands for spectators, one Beachvolley-Court and two Petanque-fields.

For more information and reservation, please contact the municipal administration of Leudelange (37 92 92 - 1).

For more locations to play Beachvolleyball in Luxembourg, please have a look at the rubric "Beachcourts in Luxembourg" on this blog.

ProAm Beach Academy - more infos...

2007-10-18T21:08:00.000+02:00

As promised end of september, more information is now available about the different courses of the ProAm Beach Academy during the Easter-holidays.

Two camps will be organised:

23 March - 27 March 2008:
5 days of training with the possibility to choose two options:
- "Full time" with 2 training sessions of 2,5 hours per day (Price 799 EUR upwards*)
- or "Free time" with only 1 session of 2,5 hours per day (Price 749 EUR upwards*)

30 March - 3 April 2008:
5 days of training with 1 training session of 2,5 hours in the morning and 1 gameplay and competition session in the afternoon (Price 779 EUR upwards*)

* All prices are including the flight from and to Germany, the transfer to the hotel and all inclusive accomodation in the ***** Hotel Hedef.

More information can be found at volleyball.de in german language. So just get a look and tell me if you are interested by this kind of training camps.

See you,
La lucertola

Bad news - Lämmi's Indoor Beachcourt has closed !!

2007-10-02T00:14:00.000+02:00

Some very bad news reached my ears some weeks ago, and it seems that the rumour is proven right: Lämmi closed the indoor Beach-Court in Aachen and decided to install a Badminton Hall (who the f... told him Badminton is the coming sport of the 21st century?).

So this is quite bad for us but I promise you that we will find another solution to play Beachvolleyball in Winter (I have some ideas already :-) ). There are some more Indoor-Beach-Courts in Germany and it seems to be possible to find one in approximately the same distance as the one in Aachen.

Nevertheless, many thanks to Lämmi, his father and the whole team. We really felt at home in Aachen.

For all Beachplayers: just keep an eye on this blog to stay informed about the Winter-Beach-Sessions.

Ciao tutti
La lucertola

Some dates to put in your 2008 agenda

2007-09-28T15:32:00.000+02:00

The season 2007 has just finished and the first dates for the 2008 training camps are already fixed. So start your holiday planning right now!

Easterspecial ProAm Beach-Academy

For all Beachvolley-Players, that want to start their season at Easter, several courses will be organised by the ProAm Beach-Academy in Turkey. The motto of this Academy is: „Training, Fun und Beach-Volleyball "all you can eat"!“ . Just up to 5 hours training are possible per day with the professional players Ines Pianka and Marvin Polte. Both camps will last 5 days and take place between 20 March and 4 April.

Registration for these camps is not yet possible, and more detailed information about prices and hotels will be published later on.

Aldiana Beachcamps 2008

During the 2008 season "beach-volleyball.de" will continue to organise regularly, in collaboration with Aldiana und FOCUS, Beach-Volleyballcamps in selected holiday destinations.

The trainers will be some well-known Beachvolleyball-Players. The trainings will last up to 3 hours per day (during 5 days) and will be held in mixed groups. And the last day, a small tournament will be organised for experienced players as well as newcomers.

The planning for 2008:

04.03.-08.03. / 09.03.-13.03.2008 with Ruth Flemig and Stefanie Hüttermann at the ALDIANA-Club Djerba

02.04.–06.04. / 09.04.–13.04.2008 with Ray Wenning and Arvid Kinder at the ALDIANA -Club Djerba

14.04.–18.04. / 21.04.–25.04.2008 with Ruth Flemig and Stefanie Hüttermann at the ALDIANA-Club Tunisia

28.04.–02.05. / 05.05.–09.05.2008 with Tom Hikel and Marvin Polte at the ALDIANA-Club Side

26.05.–30.05./ 02.06.–06.06.2008 with Ines Pianka and Jana Vollmer at the ALDIANA-Club Alcaidesa

13.07.–17.07. / 20.07.–24.07.2008 with Gudula Staub-Krause and Thorsten Schoen at the ALDIANA-Club Side

28.07.–01.08. / 04.08.–08.08.2008 with Top-Players at the ALDIANA-Club Alcaidesa

11.08.–15.08. / 18.08.–22.08.2008 with Top-Players at the ALDIANA-Club Sarigerme

19.09.–23.09. / 26.09.–30.09.2008 with Kay Matysik and Andre Fröhlich at the ALDIANA-Club Tunisia

15.10.–19.10. / 22.10.–26.10.2008 with Tom Hikel and Silke Schmitt at the ALDIANA-Club Djerba

20.10.–24.10. / 27.10.–31.10.2008 with Andreas Scheuerpflug and Markus Richter at the ALDIANA-Club Side

More informations about the Clubs can be found on the Internetpages of Aldiana.

Winter rest - time to get new energy

2007-09-20T16:34:00.000+02:00

Hi all,

after a very long season, it's time for some holidays and some relaxing time. The beach season 2007 is now over but please don't cry - the next one is coming very soon.

Personally, I will use the months of october, november and december to do some fitness training (running, biking,...) and play Indoor-Volleyball once a week in Walferdange, just to stay in contact with a volleyball in winter.

After that, the beginning of the new year will start with some specific power training for beachvolleyball (twice a week) and with 2-3 practices a month in a Beachvolleyball-hall.

As the first training camp will be probably end of march, this leaves the necessary time for a 3-months physical preparation, to be already in good shape for the camp.

And after this, in April the new beachvolley season 2008 is ready to start.

For 2008, I hope that the weather in Luxembourg will be a lot better than this year. And that it will be possible to organise all together some beachvolleyball events:

Training camps in Montpellier
Participation in tournaments in Luxembourg and abroad
Visit of a Swatch Tournament in Europe
....

For suggestions, don't hesitate to write me an e-mail (cposing@pt.lu) or leave a comment on my blog.

Hope seing you soon,
Ciao tutti
La lucertola

Diekirch Beach Tournament

2007-08-21T07:24:00.000+02:00

Hello everybody,

the team "Ay Papi" has finished the tournament last Sunday on the FIRST place. After some more or less easy games, the final was quite tight: after a first set that was clearly won by the "Flying Mallers" we recovered from the shock in the second set and won finally the third set by only 2 points.

Thanks a lot to my team-mates Corinne, Angela and the "Spaniard" Misch Torres (and our supporters). It was a great afternoon.

Good news for all people: the city of Diekirch has decided to organise "Diekirch Plage" once again next year during the summer, with even 3 beach-courts.

See you there next summer !! (The cocktails are really, really tasty)

Ciao
La lucertola

Beachvolley Tournament at Diekirch Plage

2007-08-17T22:22:00.000+02:00

Hello everybody,
this week-end (19-08-2007) there is yet another Beachvolley Tournament at Diekirch Plage.
Location: behind the indoor swimming pool
Beginning: Sunday, 3 p.m.
Play Mode: 4 vs 4, leisure category

So see you there - come and have fun !!

La lucertola with Carolina :-))

2007-08-09T00:00:00.000+02:00

Picture taken at the FIVB World Championship in Gstaad (July 2007)
A great moment for every Beachvolley-fanatic: seeing the brazilian stars in action - samba in the sand !!

Lucky Man

2007-08-08T23:38:00.000+02:00

La lucertola with the Salgado sisters: Maria Clara and Carolina. Both are probably the future brazilian Beachvolley legends