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Beach Volleyball Timeline from My Perspective
Disclaimer: Read at your own risk. Timeline entries are based on my personal point of view and selective memory. Entries are also based on my personal
experiences. If you identify yourself with one or more timeline entries and you feel that it is about yourself, it probably is.
15 billion years ago:
*Big Bang Theory - Over inflated beach volleyball explodes scattering matter in all directions.
3 billion years ago to 1895:
*Nothing really important happens.
1947:
*FIVB Founded
1982:
*Old Dave, Sam, Albert, Andre and a few others set the first court on South Beach.....THANK YOU!!
1986:
*WAVP is formed.
November 9th 1989:
*The Wall comes down, Eastern European women are left unprotected.
1993:
*Chop Chop has anything and everything for sale
*Bergen, 20 years later, but here I am
February 1998:
*igen Ka
March 1999:
*Pana
2001:
*Cini appears
*My island
January 2003:
*Dameon moves off my island with 5 tattoos on his body
February 2004:
*Dameon moves back to my island, too many tattoos to count
*WHVA is formed
July 2004:
*The dark side.
October 2004:
*Witnesses claim seeing an angry hungarian female chasing down the beach a scared and fast ecuadorean male.
*It is my darkest hour
March 2005:
*For your eyes only
*What a letter.
August 2005:
*A descendent of Cini, stows away from Austria and comes to South Beach for family reunion
November 2005:
*The truth
April 2006:
*Heavy doses of valium are finally taking effect on Bruno
September 2006:
*Frankie disappears
4 billion years ago:
*Earth forms from beach volleyball residual matter. Earth naturally takes the shape of a volleyball.
1920:
*Four guys in Santa Monica, California, skip work to go fishing. Instead of catching fish, they stumble upon a volleyball on the beach (scientists still have no clue how it got there). Realizing none of them actually enjoy fishing, they repurpose their fishing gear—poles, lines, and net—to create the first beach volleyball court. And just like that, beach volleyball is born
1957:
*Sinjin Smith is born
1983:
*AVP is formed
November 9th 1989:
*The Wall comes down, Eastern European women are left unprotected.
1992:
*Cortadito
*We have 16 courts
*Europa....my summer begins
1994:
*French connection
1998:
*For almost 2 months we have no courts
*Sinjin is in my sandbox
January 1st 2000:
*Y2K has minimal impact on volleyball courts
April 17th 2002:
*Viejo my querido viejo
February 2003:
*Not good.
April 2004:
*Main courts relocate. Dumb people
August 2004:
*Agua fria aqui
*At 63 years old, Albert is still kicking ass on the open court
*I have a bad feeling about this
November 2004:
*Fearing for my life I flee the country and secretly hide in the low lands of Europe.........they will find Osama Bin Laden before she finds me
May 2005:
*Dameon becomes a fire fighter. I believe he got another tattoo to celebrate the occasion
*Life is good
September 2005:
*Bruno escapes psychiatric asylum in Canada and finds refuge in South Beach with his father Bishop
January 2006:
*Where is Samson?
May 2006:
*Ouch!!
October 2006:
*First set of written rules and volleyball etiquette are posted for everyone to follow
*I have too much time on my hands and first website goes up @ www.sbv.cc
3 billion years ago:
*First grain of sand appears.
1930:
*Beach Volleybal appears in Europe
1960:
*Karch Kiraly is born
1985:
*I am home.
1992:
*Cortadito
*We have 16 courts
*Europa....my summer begins
August 1992:
*Hurricane Andrew takes 10 courts with him
1996:
*Beach volleyball becomes an Olympic sport
1999:
*Hungarian invasion
July 2000:
*The wall is down, we invade.
2003:
*Cini disappears
*I believe
December 2003:
*Water front property
May 2nd 2004:
*BZZZZZ!!!!
September 2004:
*What a mess
*Steve gets married
December 2004:
*The dutchie
July 2005:
*Scott and Mia get married.
October 2005:
*Hurricane Wilma sweeps my island. Most of the sand in my sand box is blown away
March 2006:
*Scott chops down some trees and bare handedly builds a picnic bench for our courts
June 2006:
*SBV is unformally founded
*Scott and Mia get married again.....I know.....what the hell??
November 2006:
*Cini takes her grandson virginity away........what can I say...we live on South Beach*Kids volleyball camp begins