At first look, it looks like another heated beach volleyball game: deep sand, 30ft by 60 ft court, standard volleyball net. At second glance, you will quickly notice the most obvious difference, they are playing with a soccer ball! Also, they are not using their hands or arms! Unbelievable as it sounds, these guys are only using their bodies, legs and feet to move the ball across the net in under three hits. But wait, even more amazing, huge round-house kicks that actually spiking the ball across the net. What is this game? It is called footvolley and it is one of the hottest games on the sand.
Footvolley combines the fancy footwork of skilled soccer players, puts them in the deep sand and on a volleyball court. If you thought beach volleyball was tough, this game is over the top. Two players on each side of the net and they can use any portion of their body except their arms and hands. Except the hands and arms, the rules are pretty much the same as beach volleyball.
This exciting game got its roots on the on the sand of Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the early 1960s. Soccer players have always headed to the beaches to practice their footwork by juggling balls in the sand. The story goes that a few players decided to try and use the volleyball net that was on the court as an obstacle to try and pass over. Now it has become one of the fastest growing international games in the world. It even has its own Footvolley World Cup, this year in Italy (http://www.footvolley.info/index2.htm).
