Yanik – 5’ 8” Volleyball Pro?
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007This is definitely a little crazy!
Yesterday I was IM’ing with my friend, AVP pro, Albert Hannemann, and he was telling me his doubles volleyball partner just bailed on him at the last minute for the final tournament of the year in Cincinnati this weekend.
I was joking around on IM that we should play together in the tournament since he couldn’t find anyone els.
HA! Yeah, right – like he needs a 5’ 8” partly-out-of-shape partner. 
Imagine my surprise when he said “Yes!”
AL-B and I have been friends from the Volleyball vacations trips he runs and I’ve given him some advice on marketing and promotion. I know my skill level and it’s not pro. But on my “BIG list” I had written “be a semi-pro beach volleyball player” however I never really thought it would really happen. (And actually this is even better since it’s a pro tourney.)
So your friends here at InternetLifestyle.com are going to be sponsoring our team. We play in the qualifiers on Thursday at 8 AM, ET. Then if by some stroke of luck we make into the main tourney we play on Fri. Pretty damn cool!
Check out the AVP site for information on this final tourney and if you’re close-by – you should come out to see the real pros (and one not-so-pro) out there. We can take them…we’ve got our game plan down…it’s AL-B vs the other 2 guys!
I’ll be posting a recap when I come home – wish me luck!
Just some comparison pics for preview – you probably can’t even tell who is the pro here, right? 
