loris bertolacci

Volleyball Base: A new conditioning site for Volleyball

My daughter Lauren Bertolacci and boyfriend Dave Jones have started a conditioning site called Volleyball Base.

http://volleyball-base.com/blog/

They are now very experienced athletes but also have worked professionally in conditioning and rehabilitation. Their site will be very practical but also provide great information on integrating sports science into the game of volleyball. Lauren is NO 6 playing with Fighting Kangaroos in Germany and Dave is playing with Liepzig.

I will be involved with an Italian site on conditioning ( http://nuke.preparazionefisica.it/) and translate their material for an English site. I will contribute to this site, but colloborate and closely support Lauren and Dave on theirs. Thus I am sure we can integrate the best of many worlds and create a strong discussion area for a potential boom sport in Australia.

So much resource and money and talent in sports science and coaching gets somewhat wasted in Australian Rules Football given it has little international exposure and is a “fishbowl” sport. Volleyball in Australia needs this input from here in OZ and also Overseas ( Italy and Germany) and Sports Science and elite sports training methodology must be become a focus in Australian Volleyball at every level , and as Lauren said there is heaps of expertise in OZ.

I hope all our endeavours help the sport and then of course, hopefully, some sponsors realize it is a huge sport. Probably No 3 participant sport in the world but as someone said recently, Soccer is a religion in many countries, so maybe it is the 2nd biggest participant sport around.

January 4, 2008 - Posted by Loris Bertolacci | Volleyball Strength and Conditioning