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2011 Finished with a serious injury. 2012 Starts with new coach and new partner. 2012 New plans. FIVB > out! USA Tours < in!

"Patience child, patience. Remember, life is a journey. If you got everything you wanted all at once there'd be no point to living. Enjoy the ride, and in the end you'll see these "setbacks" as giant leaps forward, only you couldn't see the bigger picture in the moment. Remain calm, all is within reach; all you have to do is show up every day, stay true to your path and you will surely find the treasure you seek." Jackson Kiddard

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Hi there my family, friends and fans! Hope you all had a great Xmas and tons of fun during New Years I am here to try to keep you all up to date at once, on whats happening with me. Lets start with the end of last years season Right before the second to last tourney, Im not sure, for those who follow me, if youve seen pictures or watched me more on playing with tons of kinesio tape on my back as you can see in the picture above. 3 days before that tourney we found out I had a herniated disk (L5S1), which is very common in my sport due to repetitive impact from jumping, turning and falling in weird ways. My doctor said it was huge, but luckily it came out posteriorly

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"People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine." - Brian Tracy

I have the best life, best people around me and I get to do what I love. I cannot ask for more, but if it comes; GREAT! ;)
(towards the skin of my back) rather than laterally (towards the spinal cord). If that had happened I probably wouldnt be able to walk he said. So I am very glad that I got this lucky and I will use that to my advantage so I would not need to have surgery. I had sessions of physical therapy and chiropractor with Reinaldo*, Pilates and did tons of core training so I could play the last tournament of the year. I felt great, with some uncomfortable feelings but way better than the last tournament. Which really is giving me hope that I will not need surgery. Besides my injury, my former partner Renata, had another injury in her hitting shoulder. Somehow she could not lift it and of course hitting was very painful. Well we still manage to finish 5th in both tournaments, which I was very thankful also, due to all the difficulties we were facing. A couple of month before the end of the season Renata and I had decided to split our team. We both believe

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What if you have to start from 0? Would you?
That we can play even better with other players. Also, I wanted to go back to split blocking and getting to play defense he is a young but enlightened human being. I am very excited to work with him. My new partner is Izabel Santos, and she is

again, which I love the most in this game. a little older than me, has been playing in So gladly, and in great terms we finished the Tour for quite some time and likes to do our partnership. We decided to still train in the same Training Center in Rio: VPB (Volei de Praia Brasil). This way we can still help after all shes been my best friend since Im 16 or 17 years old! We also have a new coach: Tie Santana**, it all on the court like me. We havent been able to practice together yet but I cannot wait! After the season was over I went to Los much fun! I also never really had a break physically. I had to work hard physically

each other and get to hang out everyday, Angeles to spend my vacation. It was so

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To be able to come back to Rio and start pre season training without missing any practices. Thankfully Meredith Miller helped me to do so. I have been training really hard and have not missed one practice because of my back! This week we had 3 practices 3x/day, for 4 days. Either we had 2 strength and conditioning sessions and 1 practice; or we had 2 practices and 1 strength and conditioning session. We finished the week with a mini tournament in out Training Center among all the teams that train there. I got to play with a younger girl whose partner is also from out of town. We ended up winning it all, it was good to put into play what we have been practicing. This makes me even more excited to what is yet to come. I feel like I am starting from ZERO once again, and I have no problem at all to do that. I want to keep myself balanced and focus on whats ahead, just like you do on Slackline! So from now on I will try my best to keep you all updated as much as I can about what is going on with me. I really like to keep in touch with you all. I miss my friends and hope to see all of you at a tournament sometime soon! ALSO: I will plan on making a visit to Lafayette this year! Its been too long!

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*Reinaldo (Physical Therapist, Chiropractor, Acupuncturist), clinic in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro. **Tie Santana (Beach Volleyball Coach), runs VPB (Volei de Praia Brasil) Training Center in Ipanema, Posto 9. VPBPOSTO9.BLOGSPOT.COM / WWW.ESCOLINHAVPB.COM ***Meredith Miller, founder and owner of Level 10 Fitness. Strength and Conditioning Caoch, Personal Trainer.

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