Swinging lifestyle for beach volleyball tour

Beach Volleyball Tour Into Swinging Lifestyle

September 12th, 2007 by SexyGal

The Swinging Lifestyle
Players on the Toyota Tour frequently swap partners

OCEAN CITY — Beach volleyball players tend to be rather promiscuous — but not in THAT way!

“Typically, in this sport people change partners a lot,” Toyota Pro Beach Volleyball tour director Don Abramson said.

My kind of beach volleyball Because “team” in beach volleyball means two, a teammate this weekend could be a rival the next. Desirable attributes in a partner include skills that complement your own, an amiable demeanor, the ability to take constructive criticism and a goal-oriented attitude.

If you think this sounds a bit like romantic courtship, you might be more on point than you even realize.

“Finding a partner for this game, I always tell people, it’s like dating, and that’s why you have all this switching and what not,” said Matt Heath, an Association of Volleyball Professionals veteran is the winningest player in the history of the Toyota Tour.

Considering volleyball is a sport few get rich playing, teammates frequently travel, lodge and eat together. Therefore, friendship off the court is that much more vital, Heath said.”The most important thing with any new partnership is communication,” Heath said. “Some people get really sensitive about (criticism). But we have the same agenda, to win. We seem to gel pretty well.”

But given the nomadic nature of volleyball partnerships, which sometimes hinge on proximity and scheduling availability more than anything else — Heath resides in South Carolina, Adolfo in Florida — one thing is for sure: Should the duo dissolve after the Toyota Tour, it will not be for lack of chemistry.