Comments on: 11-13 Thursday. Washington, FSU lose

By: Chicken Grease

Chicken Grease — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 04:05:31 +0000

No problem, Cindy 🙂 . Wanted to mention as soon as I heard, too. Well-deserved. This a well-crafted docu’, across the board.

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 01:38:21 +0000

24. thank you. sometimes my meds make me dingier than usual. at least it’s not walking pneumonia as I had thought.

25. thanks just received that email.

By: wildcard

wildcard — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:33:56 +0000

i should add to the above european players typically dont spin serve do they? only hartong appears to do so. which she did nicely including causing that overpass and stuff by her team.

By: wildcard

wildcard — Sat, 15 Nov 2014 00:26:48 +0000

25. thats not unusual. i was there and i saw nobody rip other than a 5.

19. yeah hartong needs to work on her passing as you can see she shanked the ball on the first serve at the beginning of the video so the weaker opponent in the swiss league right away picked on the new player and easily aced her with a float.

the video is set at when hartong makes the kill and then runs a couple or so of her jump serves which shes still decent there.

By: Chicken Grease

Chicken Grease — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 21:49:40 +0000

A lot of you here helped make this happen (if you voted on your paper HIFF ballot) . . . RISE OF THE WAHINE wins the audience award for Best Documentary at the recently completed Fall 2014 Hawaii International Film Festival!

http://www.hiff.org/content/hiff-2014-audience-award-winners-announced/

The audience award for Best Documentary Feature goes to RISE OF THE WAHINE, directed by Dean Kaneshiro. Set in the 1970s, the film is centered on a small band of minority pioneers from Hawaii who battled through racial and gender barriers–locally and nationally, socially and legally–that wouldn’t allow girls to play sports.

By: po'okela

po'okela — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 21:15:35 +0000

I think he meant as the US’s next libero

By: Cindy Luis

Cindy Luis — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:58:52 +0000

16. the ‘undersized’ description came from the UH coaches. Agree that 6-2 was generous. and that was in regards to being an MB. no one is arguing that she was one of the best all-around athletes to play for the Wahine.
20. haven’t heard the ‘lots of people’ calling for Hagglund as Hawaii’s next libero.
please enlighten as to where that is coming from.

By: blunite

blunite — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:53:55 +0000

FSU players do not appear to be more talented, their sets are just faster (easier to set, harder to hit). FSU setter & hitters did not “sync” and Duke’s split blocks did the job. Hawaii sets much slower, balls go almost straight up before coming down (easier to hit, harder to set.) Normally, the faster set is harder to block.

By: Pot-of-Gold

Pot-of-Gold — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:35:03 +0000

#17. Warriorfan, I believe that the concept of having a tall middle has changed (unless you have the 6’5″+ protype middle), as teams are running much faster plays, so you want an athletic middle being able to move side to side for blocking support. The outside hitters can capitalize on a 6’2″ frame against the setters in general who are under 6′ as a rule. The game changes, as we see most sets are going outside, so if you have a terminator out there, it is a huge advantage.

By: max13

max13 — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 13:54:34 +0000

Forgot to mention, lots of people calling for Natalie Hagglund (USC) as our next libero — even she (also a rookie) is not starting on this team. Great competition all around, and very happy Hartong is getting a chance to compete with and against such great competition.