I have recently been watching more and more volleyball on the internet, and there is a reason for this. www.laola1.tv has been offering quality volleyball action for some time now, and I have been a fan of their champion’s league coverage for a while.

The electronic score board tells you that you are close to a victory: 24-23. Like Hamlet, the opposite take the responsibility to serve with all the doubts that he didn’t have during the whole game. A strong serve or a float one?

Power balance is phenomenon among all the people. Also in volleyball some top players use it. But the question is: Will you be better volleyball player with Power Balance? Let´s find out. I decide to make my own volleyball review of Power Balance.

It's been a while since my last blog and there have been a lot of things going on lately. First of all I can announce that I reached the level in a sportsman's life that everybody starts calling you experienced instead of young one.

Volleyball season 2010-2011 is reaching the final phase. In The Netherlands are AB-Lycurgus Groningen and Draisma Dynamo Apeldoorn the big favorites. They showed their power already during the season. In The Netherlands we have also a couple of outsiders as Rivium Rotterdam, Langhenkel Volley Doetinchem and my own team Landstede Zwolle as well. There are two matches remaining in the regular competition before the play-offs will start. I’m looking forward to the coming weeks  as a volleyballplayer, big volleyball fan and agent.

Why I love volleyball so much? First of all it´s a sport and to do sports is good, right? Volleyball is the real team sport... in football/hockey/handball/basketball you can take ball and score by yourself, it is not easy but possible. In volleyball you need support of your teammates always. How many times you can celebrate in football/hockey? Five times, 10 times max. In volleyball you can celebrate every point, that means 60 to 120 times!

National team in 2005 changed forever who I would be as a player. I remember clearly after a rough few weeks of training that Hugh McCutcheon asked me where I saw myself fitting on the team. I answered as boldly as I could "outside" (outside hitter/pos 4). He agreed and Ron actually agreed with me. I let out an internal sigh of relief.

The webmaster of this great volleyball website asked me to be one of the frequent bloggers. If you can see I agreed with that! I just want to use my first blog to introduce myself. I’m Joost Kooistra professional volleyball player and players agent working for eLTee Consultancy in the Netherlands.

Finally a person ends up with all the falseness of the environment and make a formal complaint against the sport he loves so many people and even gives its name to this web portal. I raise a complaint through the air. I shout from the rooftops that volleyball discriminates and ruins the dream of popularity, fame, success and money that only some gain at the expense of hitting a ball over a net.