As a professional educator and long time volleyball coach and instructor, I am deeply disturbed by the new ruminations being proposed by Poole and his
supporters. From where the dissenters come I don't know, but their divisive machinations are destroying the game and misleading many of the more inexperienced volleyball players into thinking that volleyball is archaic, dated, and ripe for a philosophical overhaul. Well, it isn't. These volleyballistas and their propogana programs need to be curtailed at the base, there is no method. There is no sports instruction system. Volleyball is chaos, it is a microcosm of the unpredictablem forces of the universe that created and will destroy our fragile world. Therein lies the beauty of the game, to play is to reinact this drama of the heavenly bodies and gases and divine indifference. Volleyball is life and death intertwined with immutable inevitabilty, and no hubristic system will ever shelter the volleyball player from his predetermined glory and humiliation. Surprisingly however, Poole gives a very good summary of beach volleyball and lists some very popular spots to get in on a pickup game.