Sunday, December 17, 2006
more volleyball
had another two matches today. had to get up at 7am (on sunday!!!) to drive down to yeovil. hurray, no more getting up early on sunday till after christmas :-D
warming up i thought i must be sick (i knew i wasn't hung over, no alcohol since friday night and not much then). while we were doing serves i couldn't get any across the net. that's never (ever!!!) happened to me before, my serves are much more likely to hit the wall on the other side! so i moved right up to the line (i usually stand a couple of meters behind it if there's room) and tried again. still having trouble unless i whacked it as hard as i could. obviously the court couldn't be bigger than usual, it's a fixed size: 9m x 9m either side of the net. so i was convinced i must be ill (did feel a bit tired). but then we went onto the court and i was checking i was standing in the right place when i realised i wasn't actually on the court yet, cause i'd got the lines confused. so when i'd been serving before the line i'd been standing two meters behind was already at least three meters behind the correct one... no wonder i was having trouble! of course during the first set all of my serves went way out the back. we were well into the second set before i managed to them down to a more sensible setting, except that they started going out the side then ;-) but we all served crap during the first two sets. and we played crap, too. so we lost them. managed to wake up in time for the third one, yeovil was taken completely by surprise and we won the third and fourth without too much resistance from them (although again we did try to beat ourselves by playing complete crap the moment we realised we only needed two more points to win). and then the fifth set yeovil woke up again and we went back to sleep... so we lost :-( nearly managed to catch up. we were 10:14 down when we got the serve back and it was my turn, i was so glad i didn't screw that up. didn't screw up the next serve either. instead i flunked the dig :-( could have kicked myself.
the second match was quite weird. warming up they seemed really professional, we were getting a bit worried. but as it turned out they were pretty crap and we beat them 3:0 in spite of again trying to screw it up for ourselves. whenever we go points up we seem to switch off and stop playing properly, it's just weird. but we managed to wipe the floor with them anyhow. hurrah!!!
and my serves worked properly again! i do love it when their digs bounce straight up and hit the ceiling. that's a proper serve :-D
warming up i thought i must be sick (i knew i wasn't hung over, no alcohol since friday night and not much then). while we were doing serves i couldn't get any across the net. that's never (ever!!!) happened to me before, my serves are much more likely to hit the wall on the other side! so i moved right up to the line (i usually stand a couple of meters behind it if there's room) and tried again. still having trouble unless i whacked it as hard as i could. obviously the court couldn't be bigger than usual, it's a fixed size: 9m x 9m either side of the net. so i was convinced i must be ill (did feel a bit tired). but then we went onto the court and i was checking i was standing in the right place when i realised i wasn't actually on the court yet, cause i'd got the lines confused. so when i'd been serving before the line i'd been standing two meters behind was already at least three meters behind the correct one... no wonder i was having trouble! of course during the first set all of my serves went way out the back. we were well into the second set before i managed to them down to a more sensible setting, except that they started going out the side then ;-) but we all served crap during the first two sets. and we played crap, too. so we lost them. managed to wake up in time for the third one, yeovil was taken completely by surprise and we won the third and fourth without too much resistance from them (although again we did try to beat ourselves by playing complete crap the moment we realised we only needed two more points to win). and then the fifth set yeovil woke up again and we went back to sleep... so we lost :-( nearly managed to catch up. we were 10:14 down when we got the serve back and it was my turn, i was so glad i didn't screw that up. didn't screw up the next serve either. instead i flunked the dig :-( could have kicked myself.
the second match was quite weird. warming up they seemed really professional, we were getting a bit worried. but as it turned out they were pretty crap and we beat them 3:0 in spite of again trying to screw it up for ourselves. whenever we go points up we seem to switch off and stop playing properly, it's just weird. but we managed to wipe the floor with them anyhow. hurrah!!!
and my serves worked properly again! i do love it when their digs bounce straight up and hit the ceiling. that's a proper serve :-D
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