(Based upon the upcoming Brazilian Mini Volleyball DVD by JVA) By John Sample and Dave Weitl W hat if your coaching in Rio de Janeiro, where his te assignment this year was and coaches were spending t a 14 & under team - final day in Brazil before heat and you wete told that you could back home to the USA. only play 4-on-4? What if you had The JVA had assigned us an 11 & under team and you were task of collecting video footage told you could only play 3-on-3? terviewing experts and researd the world of "Mini- Volei", as What if your 14 & under and 15 & under teams required thar every called in Brazil, for the proJUCI player must play every posirion) of a DVD for JVA member What if your charter was to teach es. We had done our research cooperation, responsibility and scheduled our appointments respect as rhe primary mission we knew that it was going to and you were instructed to use busy week for us. volleyball as the tool to do it) Welcome to Brazilian volleyball. There has always been mystique sur- rounding Brazilian volleyball, whether ir is at rhe youth, junior or adult level. In the past 25 years, Brazil has dominated rhe po- dium at vitrually every world competition at all levels of both male and female divi- sions. One might argue that Brazilian vol- leyball has been the best in the world. \X!hy is this? Is it because of the training, the players. the pipeline for younger players, or possibly the nature of Brazilian culture) TIlese were my thoughts on the long flight from Dallas to Rio de Janeiro. Waiting for me at the airport in Rio was my friend and fellow club director from Seattle, Dave Weitl of Washington Volleyball Academy. We were given access to some of the top youth programs in Brazil, and they would be allowing us to watch and film mini and youth volleyball training. We were both curious to see how much impact the mini volleyball programs in Brazil had on rhe success of the Brazilian Narional Teams and the Brazilian "Superliga," one of the top professional volleyball leagues in the world. Our assignment was to bring home infor- mation to help USA Clubs with the train- ing of mini volleyball (8 - 12 year olds) here in the United States. A formidable task, but one we were fully prepared to execute. Dave was already in Brazil because over the past six yeats he has been taking ju- niors teams to Brazil to train and compete rhrough a unique exchange program with rhe Minas Tenis Clube of Belo Horizonte. He had been in Brazil for 10 days before r arrived. We were meeting at the airporr Our first stop was in Rio we lost little time in finding I ing oppottunities. Driving by the beau beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana encountered miles of beautiful beach, even more impressive to us were the volleyball courtS that stretched as far a: eye could see. We got some great fOG as we drove, then walked and filmeJ a watched volleyball being played by SCI' juniors, totS and coeds of every age. W saw "futsal" being played (a of on-five soccer played on a small aIso available in the US) along with faa ley. Foot volley is an amazing game of on-two soccer using three contacts pel and pJayed on a sand volleyball COLlrt- using soccer conract rules: feet only. Yo see this game on Youtube at www.you com/watch?v=ROptRgOpIcg. All a
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(Based upon the upcoming Brazilian Mini Volleyball DVD by JVA) By John Sample and Dave Weitl
What if your coaching in Rio de Janeiro, where his te
assignment this year was and coaches were spending t
a 14 & under team final day in Brazil before heat
and you wete told that you could back home to the USA.
only play 4-on-4? What if you had The JVA had assigned us an 11 & under team and you were task of collecting video footage
told you could only play 3-on-3? terviewing experts and researd
the world of "Mini-Volei", asWhat if your 14 & under and 15
& under teams required thar every called in Brazil, for the proJUCI
player must play every posirion) of a DVD for JVA member CO~
What if your charter was to teach es. We had done our research
cooperation, responsibility and scheduled our appointments
respect as rhe primary mission we knew that it was going to
and you were instructed to use busy week for us.
volleyball as the tool to do it)
Welcome to Brazilian volleyball.
There has always been mystique sur
rounding Brazilian volleyball, whether ir is
at rhe youth, junior or adult level. In the
past 25 years, Brazil has dominated rhe po
dium at vitrually every world competition
at all levels of both male and female divi
sions. One might argue that Brazilian vol
leyball has been the best in the world. \X!hy
is this? Is it because of the training, the
players. the pipeline for younger players, or
possibly the nature of Brazilian culture)
TIlese were my thoughts on the long
flight from Dallas to Rio de Janeiro. Waiting
for me at the airport in Rio was my friend
and fellow club director from Seattle, Dave
Weitl of Washington Volleyball Academy.
We were given access to some of the top
youth programs in Brazil, and they would
be allowing us to watch and film mini and
youth volleyball training. We were both
curious to see how much impact the mini
volleyball programs in Brazil had on rhe
success of the Brazilian Narional Teams and
the Brazilian "Superliga," one of the top
professional volleyball leagues in the world.
Our assignment was to bring home infor
mation to help USA Clubs with the train
ing of mini volleyball (8 - 12 year olds) here
in the United States. A formidable task, but
one we were fully prepared to execute.
Dave was already in Brazil because over
the past six yeats he has been taking ju
niors teams to Brazil to train and compete
rhrough a unique exchange program with
rhe Minas Tenis Clube of Belo Horizonte.
He had been in Brazil for 10 days before
r arrived. We were meeting at the airporr
Our first stop was in Rio
we lost little time in finding I
ing oppottunities. Driving by the beau
beaches of Ipanema and Copacabana
encountered miles of beautiful beach,
even more impressive to us were the
volleyball courtS that stretched as far a:
eye could see. We got some great fOG
as we drove, then walked and filmeJ a
watched volleyball being played by SCI'
juniors, totS and coeds of every age. W
saw "futsal" being played (a ver~ion of
on-five soccer played on a small court!~
aIso available in the US) along with faa
ley. Foot volley is an amazing game of
on-two soccer using three contacts pel
and pJayed on a sand volleyball COLlrt
using soccer conract rules: feet only. Yo
see this game on Youtube at www.you
com/watch?v=ROptRgOpIcg. All a
athletic action was taking place on literally
hundreds of courts. That's right; I said hun
dreds of beach courts! In many places the
courtS were four and five deep between the
densely packed rows of hotels and the crash
ing waves of the Atlantic Ocean. It rook
a full 25 minutes ro drive from one end
of Copacabana Beach to the other end of
Ipanema Beach. It was then that we knew:
this was going ro be one tough assignment.
Volleyball in the United States is one
of the fastest growing sports for girls, and
there are currently over 400,000 junior
club players. Volleyball trails only soccer
as the number two sport in Brazil, which
may be described more appropriately as a
religion than a sport. Volleyball in Brni I is played by over a million juniors and an