Vals Customized Actionwear, the home of the original “Crazy Shorts,” today unveiled their exciting Summer 2009 product line. The fun new “Crazy Shorts” spandex prints include Rainbow Tide, Double Chocolate, Fruit Swirl ,Purple Zebra and White and Blue Panthera. They are already flying off the shelves, as sports teams and cheer squads across the US and Canada are catching on to the “Crazy Shorts” craze. These wild “Crazy Shorts” are light, versatile and great to wear while playing volleyball, running, track & field, lacrosse, dodge ball, field hockey, soccer and tennis. Sporting teams from Coast to Coast are finding that the fun, colorful “Crazy Shorts” boost team morale when everyone wears them. “Crazy Shorts” are available at Valscustomized. com, the premiere online store for affordable sporting apparel. All products are manufactured onsite at their St Catherines Ontario factory using USA made fabrics and can be bought wholesale and are an excellent addition to sell at sporting events, regattas and fundraisers. In this current economic climate, Vals Customized Actionwear prides itself in being able to offer quality sportswear without breaking the budget and contributes regularly to charity sports events, both monetarily and with product. ValsCustomized. com was founded in 1990 and is the brain child of “momtrepreneur” Valerie Sullivan, or Val, as she known by her friends. She started this exciting company in her basement 19 years ago while she was working at Bell Canada in customer service. Her active mind and a love of sewing prompted Val to start making swimsuits for her daughter Rachel and her friends on the swimming team. It wasn’t long before Val’s phone was ringing off the hook with people requesting her to make sportswear to sell at fundraisers, rowing regattas and for swim, skating and gymnastics teams. As word of mouth and referrals grew, Val created the company Vals Customized Actionwear to keep up with the demand and eventually had to hire employees and move into a factory. “Crazy Shorts,” the flagship product of the company, actually originated from the left- over material from gymnastic leotards and skating clothing. “At first, we weren’t sure if they’d sell, but it was a smashing success when they sold out,” Mrs Sullivan explains “I named them ‘Crazy Shorts’ because as soon as we started selling them, all the teenage boys and girls went crazy for them. Parents could give them to their kids who really liked wearing them at their sports tournaments There was nothing else in the market that even compared to their popularity. ”This has been a milestone year for Vals Customized, as they have doubled in staff and continue to grow by offering functional sports team wear. Driven by her passion to provide not only the best product but something that adds excitement and fun, Mrs Sullivan takes on a hands-on approach and still enjoys sewing the clothes herself. She stays grounded in her roots of a family-owned business and intends to keep it that way. She now employs her daughter Rachel as the office manager as well as Mike, her husband who is the production manager. . “I’m proud to say that my products are made in my own factories in Ontario rather than offshore. We have the best quality, selection and price. Quite a few of our wholesale customers have purchased other spandex shorts, but tell us that our customer service/quality/selection/delivery are superior. ”Vals Customized is a purveyor of cutting edge apparel for teenage team sports and is a pioneer in the online retail world. Val’s is the original manufacturer of Crazy Shorts and has the most extensive collection of patterns and offer the best prices available on the internet. These are great gifts for any sports team and are guaranteed to make them stand out against the competition. Val’s Customized Action Wear is the home of the original spandex Crazy Shorts. Val’s Customized is a market leader in wholesale actionwear featuring comfortable designs inspired by the fusion of sport, leisure and fashion. The brand’s distinctive excellence is driven by its founder Valerie Sullivan’s passion, commitment and dedication to creating innovative designs for Sports Apparel. Crazy Shorts are available in stores and sporting events and in cities such as Baltimore, Md,Owing Mills, MD York, PA Kansas City, MO Canyon, TX Waukee, IA, Waverly, OH For more information go to the website at www. valscustomized. com
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Coaching Tips Volleyball
December 11th, 2009
Successful coaching in volleyball is like any other sport. It not only requires using your best players, with proper practice and game playing, but being prepared in other areas. For example, the diet and physical fitness of your volleyball team is critical to your team’s success. Motivation and teamwork plays a role in how well your team does.
First, the volleyball coach must have a plan and be organized. In addition, the coach must think of the best ways to implement their knowledge to the players. You can have the greatest coaching tips in the world, but if you can not pass on this knowledge to your team, it is worthless.
Volleyball practice is another example of using tips to improve the individual skills of your players. To get the most out of practice, the volleyball coach needs to make it fun. Most players would scrimmage instead of doing individual skills such as blocking or digging.
Warming up before practice should be thought out and made fun if possible. You can get input from the team on various ways to warm up. One tip is for the volleyball coach to include games with the warm-ups. Freeze Tag and Dodge ball are two examples of making volleyball warm-ups fun.
Practice should be used to work on skills, improve individual skills and team goals. Another way to make practice effective is to have the player’s list three skills they would like to improve on. Time does need to be spent on the basic skills such as setting, hitting, serving, blocking, digging and passing.
The key with volleyball success is to have communication with the player to let them know how they are doing. Praising for improving in an individual skill will do more good for your team than yelling at their mistakes. Giving players praise will make most players give extra effort during the practices and the games.
Another tip for a volleyball coach is to get input from the team in many areas as possible. The coach will still have the final say, but you will be surprised at some of the excellent suggestions from your players.
Giving player’s information on proper dieting and fitness plays a huge role in a volleyball coach being successful. The volleyball players need to be in top shape to reach their potential.
One last coaching tip for volleyball is to work on teamwork. Having exercises that several teammate’s work together to become closer. A team of average players with teamwork will beat superior talent with no teamwork. The players will have some fantastic ideas to promote teamwork.
Volleyball coaching is more than improving your player’s individual skills. It requires teamwork, motivation, praise, proper training and fitness to reach these goals.
By: Jerry Robertson
