Recently I was reading a golf book, and something interesting hit me: golf is a sport where people spend money to buy physical products in hopes of becoming a better player. Tons of clubs, gadgets, bags etc are bought year after year, and these brands are happy to sponsor tours to get people’s eyeballs onto their logos. A new club might not make an average player any better, but for the human mind it is much easier…

In general, I do see quite a bit of talk around how the sport of beachvolleyball is struggling financially. Whether I am listening to the Sandcast podcast, reading threads at Volleytalk, lurking around in Old school volleyball Facebook groups or seeing that something called the IBVPA (International Beach Volleyball Players Association) is created, there is an underlying thing that sometimes is expressed directly, sometimes indirectly - there’s not enough money in beach volleyball…

Ohhhh the pressure. I actually don’t think I have ever written a blogpost before in my life, and here I am, building a website that I decided should have a blog. And now I’m supposed to put stuff into this blog.

Easy way out would be to write “First post, wohoo!”, call it a day, and tell myself that I’ll become a better blogger someday in the future. But then I realized, that maybe in the future there will be some weirdos out there like me, that enjoy scrolling ALL the way to the beginning of a blog, just to see how it all started…