How to Play Defense in Beach Volleyball feat. Taylor Crabb

[@Siile]

We have all been waiting for a new video from you guys...

[@FabiannnnT]

Love the TCrabb Series, was so stoked when you did the undersize outside on him. And now the defense. Quality stuff gents!

[@jakegrace108]

Been watching Taylor C and Trev C since they starte AVP in SoBay 10 years ago. I always root for HI!!!!!! Met TC last weeeknd at KOB Miami, super nice and inspiring. We are all stoked to watch TC and TS them this weekend in AVP Miami, keep rocking! BTW nice Anchorman edit!

[@wegwerfDave]

Just great to hear the thoughts of a guy like him. Premium content. Thank you all!

[@PaoloMassa74]

I vostri video sono fantastici ! Ce ne vorrebbero piu' spesso ! Saluti da un ex giocatore italiano di beach e indoor ! Siete i numeri 1 !!

[@galaxy_mosaic3587]

was missing your content. thank you. you guys have great info and high production quality

[@pccarrera]

LOve the insight! Nice to see you guys again!

[@dustinwatten8139]

Beautiful work boys, even the ad. Top Standard

[@TurboSuperbo]

Now, I needed this video. Thanks guys and Taylor! See y'all in Myrtle Beach this year?

[@leonvaia]

So glad you restarted posting how to videos!

[@2pals1blog]

Finally a new video 🤩 , btw you guys made me hungry with that video! Loved the reciepe!

[@100PercentZelda]

Is this an uploaded video from the McKibbins brothers?!

[@voleibolll]

I've missed this tutorials so much 😭😭

[@lucas_13.]

👀

[@kanebooker3216]

Have been waiting for a while guys finally your back 🎉🎉

[@juliedominguez905]

It was a great pleasure to meet you here in the drive thru in McDonald's in Kenner Louisiana

[@barney3834]

[@WhiteSnowAustralia]

Finally, another GEM. I missed you, guys

[@cb-if2tu]

This was awesome!! More please!

[@it405]

...waiting patiently for the next video🏐🤞🤞

[@andresposada7755]

Great stuff. Thanks TCrabb and McKibben bros! 😎🏐🤙🏽

[@Sdority905]

Great video. Could you do another video that dissects more of the "disrupt and read" plays that TCrabb is talking about here?

[@talanky]

Great video! It's been too long!

[@bighitsfootage]

babe wake up mckibbin bros posted :')

[@100PercentZelda]

Btw if it's worth anything, I'd love to hear a sum up or his thoughts on the Crabb dalhausser tourney. That was fun to watch. But most of all more McKibbins would be better 🙃🙃

[@CharlieWhite15]

Awesome! 👏👏👏

[@chickencombo391]

Early to an absolute plethora of knowledge

[@MatthewHochberg1]

🚨🚨 MCKIBBIN BROTHERS CONTENT IS BACK 🚨🚨

[@cfisher7]

I need info from him on how to play defense on a team that goes on 2 alot… not split blocking can be tuff with that and he does amazing against Lottman and Partain so i wanna hear how he plays them😅

[@reetabass1540]

He prob just stays in the middle behind the blocker running up and blocker blocks ball for over on 2 and he gets the shot

[@andrewmay4740]

I have a question at 5:25. Isn't what he is describing basically a 3? "You line up inside of them and reach back to the line". Or is there some distinction.

[@joeybyler2838]

I think it’s just for if you’re blocking smaller hitters who can’t turn a mean line. From what I understand the defender stays in the angle the entire time. I do this sometimes if I’m understanding him correctly

[@kylechurch3717]

If I'm blocking a 3 or 4, I'll typically take a step after the hitter looks back at the ball. I'm repositioning my whole body. Reaching with arms/shoulders is more of a read on where the ball is when it's being hit and I'll do that on any block where I think it gives me or my partner a better play. That said, I'm not a pro. And it does looks like some of those guys may exclusively use arms for their 3s and 4s.

[@LearnBeachVolleyballFast]

Nice to see a tutorial video again! Lots of similarities between this and what David Åhman was explaining to me! :)

[@Hobbes1964]

wonder if this is similar to karch saying get big or wide on defense?

[@DoNothingCrazy]

ahh so this level of play and mental read and disrupt in beach is where furudate got his idea for shoyo's ninja shoyo arc

[@oofbigtime4175]

McKibbin contennnnnnnnnt

[@gspike15]

1 is line, 2 is cross. Can someone tell me what 3 and 4 are?

[@TenToKnow]

3 is faking cross and jumping line, 4 is faking line and jumping cross

[@DaiChurch]

McCrabbin

[@notsasha78]

Sponsors in the middle of every video killed your amazing channel bro, I don’t even watch the video after you stop it to push marketing

[@squittty9528]

“I don’t want you to make money off of this video that you worked very hard on and my fingers are too delicate to fast forward through an ad”

[@mrseceda4285]

Who is the best beach volleyball player at the moment? 🤔

[@umrobe62]

Anders Mol

[@seanwillan5369]

Why have the videos been so sparce lately, i NEED more McKibbin brothers content.... if anyone has the answer please let me know

[@jbeeneq]

Step one: Learn defense stragety. Step two: Get TSander to block for you. Step three: Profit

[@Bigmoney703]

Cool video. What is the song in the background haha?

[@fangman21]

Question: Why do teams block line so much more than angle? Really surprised to hear 70/80%. Especially later on Taylor said you give up the high line and cut shot on a line block, and give up a perfect cut shot on an angle block. He makes it sound like it's harder to score against an angle block? I would've guessed it would be way closer to 50-50 (excluding the 3/4 calls) to keep them from a rhythm, and then skewed more one way or another depending on opponent strengths/weaknesses/tendencies. For example against top NBA players you throw different coverages at them throughout a game, or they start picking it apart if they see something 70/80% of the time. Great content as usual. Thanks!

[@JacobNorthrup121]

It’s a shorter distance from the ball to the net when hitting line so you can hit it much more powerful and more straight down. When hitting angle have to hit it deeper and slower because it’s a farther distance to the net. So it makes more sense to block line because you are blocking the most powerful swing and digging an easier to dig swing. When you are blocking angle it is worse because the hitter can bounce the ball easier down the line, the hitter can drop the ball short quicker than it would take to hit a cut shot against a line block and it is easier to hit a deep angle swing than to hit a high line shot there’s just more court. Because the court is deeper and wider in the angle so you can hit a ball harder and flatter over the block making it very ineffective unless the block is very tall and the set is relatively close to the net. So even though hitting a perfect cut shot is harder to hit than a high line shot.. the hitter still has better options against an angle block for the reasons above.

[@fangman21]

@@JacobNorthrup121 Thank you for that! Can you explain a little more on your first paragraph please, specifically "distance from the ball to the net" I'm picturing an empty net with a good set to the same spot on both a line and angle hit. Forming I guess a right angle triangle between the two shots and the net (line hit and net form a 90 degree angle, angle shot maybe 45 degrees?). The extra distance you're talking about is that extra few inches the ball has to reach the net after contact from the hitter? Forgive my ignorance (I can't bounce a ball) but does it really make that much difference? Or are you talking about something else? Or is that the assumption that in a real game the 'perfect' set close to the net and in the right spot is not easy to do (although these pros sure make it look easy), so it's easier to take away line? And to combine your second and third paragraphs and from my limited experience, it's easier to dig a hard angle shot than a hard line shot is what you're saying? So leave that open more and over the course of a game the defender can make more plays/digs from the angle? Even though there's more court to cover?

[@JacobNorthrup121]

@@fangman21 yes, exactly! Imagine there’s no block up the ball is 3 feet off the net and the defenders are playing side by side in the back court. Would it be easier to hit a cut shot or a short line shot and which one would hit the ground sooner? Also for the same reason if I’m serving from the right back I’m more likely to get an ace serving down the line than serving into the angle because the person down the line has less time to react (unless you hit it much harder into the angle which you can do because there’s more court over there).

[@fangman21]

@@JacobNorthrup121 Gotcha. Thank you so much! Still a little surprising to me that it's that high a percentage, but makes sense why at least.

[@ShowNoMercy98]

I think if we are talking about full power swings, and pro players can do that from pretty much anywhere on the court, even high balls away from the net, then if you leave too many line shots, the attackers will crush and crush line balls and the only way to defend that is to be exactly at the perfect spot and that's still not a guarantee that you'll dig a super strong spike. Diagonal swings even if full power, are usually landing much deeper into the court and there is more reaction time. Also a push over the line block has to be with more height and higher curve than the push over the cross court block, since it's a shorter distance to land, therefore making it so that you have a little extra time to chase it. At more amateur levels the variety of angles for the power shots decreases, so at my level for example you rarely see huge kills down the line. If the attacker is not hitting the ball that much higher over the net then his possible angles are much tighter and the defender has a smaller area to cover. That's why we for example use more angle blocks, since that's where the attacker will usually go for a power spike and the line will usually be drop shots or deep pushes, which could be annoying, but certainly these are possible to dig.

[@matejceni-bq3kt]

Immidiate like from me

[@etheldingleberry8075]

How can these be secrets if the video is posted on KZbin?

[@Vballbeachbum]

So what you’re saying is, if idk what I’m doing then you don’t know what I’m doing? So therefore I am unreadable and am the best! 😂😂😂 jk

[@TheZelluloid]

Unfortunately Alex Walkenhorst and his Team ranks T Crabb only at 10 in their highly controversial ranking (kzbin.info/www/bejne/e5OXY56gm5aqbaM , very popoular in Germany). Completely undeserved in my opinion. 10. T Crabb 9. Lupo 8. Brouwer 7. Smedins 6. Wickler 5. Losiak 4. Perusic 3. Ahmed 2. Krasinlikov 1.Sorum

[@makhuphukamnguni9782]

He is not the top five in the world. Maybe top 5 in America

[@IanTaylor_1]

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