Kent Steffes: It's Winning Time 

Yes they did!

We'll see if we can make it an annual occasion ;)

Trying to reel him back in ;)

Tough to beat the old school guys

As have we!

Thanks Ron!!!

Love it brotha! Appreciate the listen and the read!

Most dominant team in history

He’s the best. Do yourself a favor and go watch some film of him. Unreal

As could we!

haha love hearing all these stories. So dang good

Could have been. You never know what the sponsor deals are

@@SANDCASTPodcast also. Would love to see Brent Frohoff and Scott Ayakatubby

@@TonyReidsma We'll work on it ;)

Cheeee buddy! Hope you had a good one with Kent!

Thank you! Wold LOVE it if you could drop a review on Amazon for us. Goes such a long way

Indeed he is

He's the man

Might be ours too!

There would need to be a whole lot of research on that mid-2000s era before anything haha

Let us know what you think!

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hahaha he is anything but

Ordering the book can't wait to read!

@@cb-if2tu Thank you!

That's what we're here for :)

Can do!

haha it was a fun ole trip down memory lane

Thanks!

He is sharppppp as hell. Was a joy to have him on

Agreed. Beach beat surfing, snowboarding, skiing, X Games to the punch. Now the "lifestyle sport" space is a bit crowded

Could argue the AVP invented the space . Kicked it around with the OG’s at the courts this morn. We agreed Sinjin got an unfair negative PR rep when he skipped some AVP to help launch the whole FIVB Beach game. But dang he built two tours , one of them worldwide. Karch called him a traitor but was he ….

@@vbsand5882 Sinjin Smith is, in my mind, the most important person in the history of beach volleyball.

That is dedication!

Thanks brotha!

Yes indeed

haha Sinjin's still the man. Always was, always will be

@@SANDCASTPodcast on the positive side of there being no money in the AVP, pros are making more money coaching now. Great for fans to learn from and get to know their favorite players.

@@seanodaniels397 love the glass half full look!

That plan is hanging on Travis' fridge ;)

hahahaha Kent's the man

Similar to what LIV is/was doing with their team system?

Love em both

I think his response would be something along the lines of him having the highest Q score of any beach volleyball player ever. That's as good of a promotion as it gets.

At some point, yes

@@SANDCASTPodcast you should have Steffes narrate!

I don't think he envisioned having a cap

Same thing with Wisco/MN. I know we could fill the stands. Look at Waupaca. Plenty of people who love the sport up here.

Seaside is epic

@@jaegek haha Waupaca gets a good grass crowd. Beach...eh

They only streamed stadium court and one other court this year

I think beach volleyball players are probably the most accessible athletes of any professional sport I've seen

Of all the critiques, this one doesn't make sense. In what other sport could a fan be literally mingling around with the best players in the world? Go to a tourny and you'll see it. You'll be waiting in line for the bathroom next to Olympians. You don't get that in NFL/NBA etc. The issue is that the sport is a niche sport with limited drawing power. But not that there isn't enough accessibility.

@@martinhodell8465 I don't think you get the overall point. Sitting next to someone in line, to get to a bathroom doesn't give you "access" to them. Accessibility is knowing the players, relating to them through something shared or shared interest, and there's multiple ways that can be achieved, and beach volleyball NOW doesn't have the "luxury" of marketing and exposure of all the other sports you compared it to, so the best way for them - grass roots- method, interacting with the fans, playing all sorts of small venues, talking in small radio shows or schools, hanging out with more than just peers. Access in the other sports is done through advertisement, gear representation, in tennis - anything you can imagine as far as equipment goes, in the NFL and NBA is all that + exposure to their college career, where the viewers and the fans are exposed to the players their stories, beach volleyball doesn't have that. Can you go to a AVP tournament and see the players as close if not closer than any other sport ? YES! Does that mean you have access to them, to their story, to something that would make you bring 10 more ppl to watch them? Not really. 'Btw matches, players would park their chairs and umbrellas in the middle of the fans,.....in the thousands. They'd share drinks with the players.Talk story. Interact in a way that was wholly rare in sports......It was the breaking of the barriers btw athlete and fans, professional and spectator...." KINGS OF SUMMER chapter 2 They don't have the luxury of other main stream sports. It got to be main stream for a bit and they had clout and popularity beyond just that type of interaction in the...90's but now, they got to go back to grass roots, not hang out in players tents, and leave right after their games... Nothing sadder in sports than a AAA or a mid level open tournament final in a smaller tournament, everyone is gone, almost none of the players stay to watch it's desolate. Start there, by staying and watching those finals and mingling with ppl from those Complexes ... -read the book-

@@SANDCASTPodcast Proximity vise yes, but that doesn't mean Access imo. There's levels of access and beach players don't have the luxury of just relying on proximity and justifying that as access. To relate, ppl need engagement, shared experience, "breaking bread" Cracking a beer open and talking with them. Y'all are back in the 70's maybe the 80's as far as notoriety and exposure yet players behave as main stream sport professionals, thinking that ppl know who you are...a few do, yes, but that's what needs to change, and have more than just the few that can relate. And that doesn't have to be just volleyball, crack open a can of beer with 5-10 ppl that you don't know thorough the weekend and let them in... Chapter 2 Travis. That's where y'all should try to get again, before anything...But y'all are not there

@@nolajoe580 I have to say that you're just plain wrong here. Watch Casey Patterson, Ed Ratledge, Taylor Crabb, Troy Field, etc. at any tournament, and they're milling with the fans almost the entire time. A few don't, but not all of them did at any point (Karch and Kent were consistently labeled as boring and killing the sport because they didn't do a ton of the partying and cracking beers, in spite of the sport reaching its zenith when they were at their powers).