Summer Mailbag! AVP parity, Olympic favorites, trash talking, hottest teams on Tour

[@irawru]

Yess another Vancouver Open shoutout! See you guys next year!

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

I'll forever give the Van Open shoutouts

[@nickelanddime5596]

Love the pod!! This exactly the type of content we need for beach vb right now!

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Thanks for listening! We'll keep them coming so long as y'all keep listening!

[@davidshaw6543]

Thanks!

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Love you!

[@davidshaw6543]

@@SANDCASTPodcast it is my personal belief and policy that compliments are not given they are earned. What are you produce and put forth earns you the compliments and appreciation.

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@@davidshaw6543 Well you're my boy, and we love and appreciate you

[@jackmehoph711]

Life's so much more enjoyable with the family back together much love, sound n look great...new camera s n mics to sweet...

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Love getting the full fam back together!

[@the-line-shot]

Love the podcast. Wasn't sure if I missed the answer to why the stands are so much smaller compared to just 2019, pre pandemic?

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

$$$

[@the-line-shot]

@@SANDCASTPodcast sigh all right…

[@t20sgrunt36]

Stream numbers have jumped from like 2.5k in Austin to 7kish during Manhattan Final. And 5-6k during the previous events. Popular players and teams get 3-4k easy on Sat & Sun. It's growing slowly. The live stream chat is filled with some fun and awesome people. Real die hard fans. Bally's- spend 2-3k for another budget camera, extra batteries, and a stand; give the people what they want. Edit. First 20 mins, talking about getting local involvement and players having fun with fans is dead on what should be happening. Everyone loves to play, use that as a catalyst to get them to watch. It's such a rare sport that athletes are pretty approachable.

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Agreed. I think if we (the players) started doing little practices and random things with the fans a day or two before it would be huge

[@TylerBullock]

@@SANDCASTPodcast Also podcast numbers are going up (I think)! Great work guys

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@@TylerBullock Setting records pretty much every month now

[@tomammentorp4716]

BVB lists Partain’s height at 6’2”. That seems more like it. Love the show; Tri’s low key prediction of them winning the MBO was spot on!

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Partain's probably 6'5 and looooooong haha

[@umrobe62]

BVB might be out of date

[@galinswigart]

Has anyone heard any Benesh/Partain buzz? It seems a pretty obvious pairing based on age, skillset, and potential. Obviously there's a lot more than that needed to compete at that level and chemistry is hard to predict but two under 30's studs that have improved dramatically over the past few years would be a big and physical team for sure.

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

On paper all of that makes perfect sense, but Miles was the MPSF POY indoors, and he has a great career at UCLA. So as long as he's intent on continuing his indoor career and committing there, it would be tough to make a legitimate run internationally on the beach

[@andrewpulsipher2062]

Lotman still a bit better than Benesh for now. Little more consistency and control. Dalhausser and Miles would be a good pairing though, Phil still playing at a high level

[@galinswigart]

@@andrewpulsipher2062 Phil isn’t playing internationally anymore. And it’s a toss up between Benesh and Lotman. I think Benesh’s ceiling is way, way higher.

[@umrobe62]

@@SANDCASTPodcast Miles would be crazy to not spend at least some post UCLA time making good Indoor pro money before coming back to the beach full time.

[@umrobe62]

@@galinswigart That's why Partain and Phil would be a great fit for a couple years, because Miles isn't playing internationally yet and Phil is already done. Andy and Miles Evans are actually a pretty solid team right now already anyway, let's see where that goes.

[@nolajoe580]

love the podcast!

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Love that you listen!

[@BastienAdrien]

Since for the last few episodes you've talked about the biggest tournaments concerning fans and stuff....you've never mentioned the tournaments in vienna - it's unfortunate they haven't happened for 2 (or 3?) years, but as far as I can relate to conversations to players many of them said that Vienna is just different, it's bigger, it's more a big party, it's just crazy concerning the size, amount of fans, etc....I was wondering if you guys just missed it or if you feel different about it! I've been to a few of the majors in vienna or to the world championship and the atmosphere on all courts was awesome (not only the big 10k people center court). Also the entire area that was built for it around the CC was incredible

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

You're 100 percent correct. Vienna is epic. I (Travis) haven't been there yet, so I couldn't speak on experience. But I've heard Vienna is an incredible place for beach volleyball

[@vbsand5882]

The ATP in late 80’s used college tennis stadiums and would try to sign local banks as marquee sponsors . Are there now nice small college VB stadiums in place? Any ncaa beach college programs in areas with youth beach clubs too? I mean at least there would be a base. Maybe a legend market too like Phil in FL, Adam Johnson in Austin and hyden in TN?

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

That's not a bad idea there. USC, Poly, FSU, LSU, GSU all have pretty solid stadiums, among many many others

[@vbsand5882]

Seems like SF and NYC outdrew Muskege and Virginia Beach pretty handily . Sf pier is now home to Warriors I think lol

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

@@vbsand5882 San Fran and New York were also legit pro stops, so it's tough to compare the two

[@vbsand5882]

Good point tho SF seemed to collide with FIVB Europe each year so some bigs were not there I guess I just meant in terms of saving and growing the sport hurts to exit big markets ?

[@vbsand5882]

We should play butterfly beach Dino Oct 8 (left side 57 y o defender ) Or better for you - you should ask fonoi to play

[@steffenbruns652]

About those verticals on sand: If you're 6'5 (195 cm), that's 48 cm to the top of the net + roughly 15 cm until your nose is at that height = 63 cm which is roughly 25 inches ;) I guess Tri might get a bit higher than that "nose over net" and you could also add something between 2 and 4 inches because your feet sink into the sand when you jump, so you're not actually jumping from 0, but from -2 or -4 inches. Another nice way to measure this is to watch film and to count the frames you are in the air. The more fps, the more accurate your result will be ;)

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Interesting

[@umrobe62]

What exactly is the "Sutton Situation"?

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

We might just have him on the podcast to chat all about it ;)

[@umrobe62]

@@SANDCASTPodcast I'd appreciate that!

[@Roger71890]

The Manhattan Beach stop should be the end of the season championships.

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

August would just be an early end to the season though I think. Manhattan is without a doubt the biggest event, but might be an early end?

[@Roger71890]

@@SANDCASTPodcast definitely, any reason why they wouldn't be able to move it to September? maybe even October?

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

@@Roger71890 It's up to the city of Manhattan Beach. It's been on the same weekend every year for as long as I can remember

[@Roger71890]

Make sense. Tri keeps talking about that season ending trophy and the historical MBO pier plaque just fits that perfectly.

[@andresposada7755]

Thanks guys👍🏽.. ya, I guess Trevor heard this 😉😎🏐

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

hahaha the reverse guarantee!

[@rebeccacrane3507]

Come to Santa Cruz and we will promote it. 💝

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

We'll try to make it happen ;)

[@RonBrah]

nice Savvy good results. Toni said will be back in month. awesome

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Love to see it

[@pccarrera]

Great idea!

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Thanks :)

[@philipproffer5604]

Would love to see you guys have some 1970s players talk about those times. Menges Lee O.B. Dane Selznick Hooper Vogie and others just to name a few. Plus Whitmarsh and Dodd played against my Dad and I in Fort Lauderdale when the AVP was there. Very memorable.

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

We've had Hov, Dodd, Sinjin, Karch, Stokie, Loiola, and Kent on now haha

[@philipproffer5604]

@@SANDCASTPodcast all good. Going to have to watch the Sokie video. He probably didn't mention his greatest comeback was against me and I had him 14 to 10 and lost 17 15. But Butch May or one of the Barbers or Ron Lang and Von Hagen 70s not 80s.. Love your show!!!

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

@@philipproffer5604 Butch May would be a fun one!

[@rebeccacrane3507]

It’s not great when court 2 isn’t covered on videotape as long as NYVarsity picks it up but the moveable camera angles always improve the viewing experience.

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

100 percent

[@davemcg14]

Tri and Trevor first to win two!

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Yessir!

[@umrobe62]

Well, Phil won the first two... ;-)

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

@@umrobe62 You're not wrong!

[@jaegek]

Any news about April Ross and Alix? If April retires and Alix can come back thats going to totally shake up the womens teams.

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

No news yet!

[@siestakeyrat]

If not for the sand getting so easily rain-soaked these days unfortunately, this would be a World Class Volleyball Beach: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hH3LqZavr72Erq8

[@SANDCASTPodcast]

Siesta is beautiful, but hard-packed sand is a no no haha