I've been a big fan of volleyball for quite a while. Not only watching, but playing. I started playing back in Santa Clara on the sand courts they have at the Intel campus out there. I always stuck to beach volleyball until I moved out to Arizona. Here, I picked up the indoor game. Much faster pace and even though there are so many more people on the court, with the right teammates and communication everything moves like a complex dance.
That is not the point of this post though. Over the last season of indoor volleyball, my knees (or more specifically my left knee) started bothering me more than usual. During a season, I play for 2 teams. One for the City of Gilbert, the other for the City of Chandler. We play in some semi-competitive leagues so there is quite a bit of activity going on. During one of the final games of the season I started feeling quite a sharp pain in my knee. It hurt to the point that I couldn't jump. Not exactly a great feeling to have. But, spending some time off of it proved to be good and it is feeling pretty good.
After that episode, I decided it was time to stop playing indoor. I don't have problems playing on the sand with my knee because of the less impact it has. Maybe I will pick up the game again in the future, but for now I am going to stick with sand and just sub for indoor when the team needs me...
sad panda.
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