G'day to you from sunny Australia,

My name is Marty Ermer, Operations manager for Natalie Cook and Sandstorm Beach Club.

We recently purchased 2 Cobra volleyball systems from you with the intention of using them on our State Beach Volleyball Tour.
I would like to report to you that we are very impressed with your product not only from a logistics side but, also from a player's side.
I did use them on the Queensland State Tour and they were well received from the public and coordinators alike.

 ...We are the largest beach Sports Club in Queensland, if not Australia.  Our director is beach Volleyball Gold Medalist, Natalie Cook.  Our club caters to 250 teams on a weekly basis, offering junior programs through internationally competitive athletes via the Queensland Academy of Sport, who base their training out of our Club.  Sandstorm Beach Club will be hosting the Australian Beach Volleyball Championships; it is the largest event on our Volleyball calendar in Australia....
 
Marty Ermer
Manager


marty@sandstorm.com.au
www.sandstorm.com.au

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I love the Cobra indoor volleyball net system.  It is amazing how easy it is to set up and take down.  We use it in our Family Life Center and it's so non invasive that it's basically invisible.  Unless your'e looking for the sleeve (insert kit in the floor) when you're setting up the system, you would never know it's there.  Everyone is amazed that the equipment is so stable and sturdy yet has such a small (about 1" diameter) footprint in the floor. 

I have attached pictures of our insert for the Cobra.  (See below - the insert is the round grey circle in the middle of the picture.)  The tiles (interlocking tiles sportcourt flooring) we have on the floor are 1 foot by 1 foot and the lines that are painted are 2 inches wide, maybe this will help others visualize the scale and how non-invasive the insert is.  

We recently received feedback from Fort Jackson, South Carolina about Cobra volleyball equipment.  

"We've had our Cobra volleyball equipment for 6 years and the only things we've needed to replace on our 5 sets are 3 protector caps that have been lost.  The volleyball equipment is rental equipment to any military, retired or active, as well as civilians.  It gets used all the time by lots of people, and we are very pleased with the Cobra volleyball equipment." 

Mike Cavanaugh
Outdoor Recreation
Fort Jackson, SC 29207
803-751-3484
mike.cavanaugh@us.army.mil

We are honored to have the privilege of supplying all the branches of our military with volleyball equipment throughout the years.  God Bless the greatest military in the world that serves our great country and rushes to help people all around the world, - right now those in Haiti for whom we pray. 

Here's an extract from Fort Jackson's Website:

Welcome to Fort Jackson, South Carolina

"Victory Starts Here!"

 
"Fort Jackson is the largest and most active Initial Entry Training Center in the U.S. Army, training 50 percent of all Soldiers and 70 percent of the women entering the Army each year. Providing the Army with trained, disciplined, motivated and physically fit warriors who espouse the Army's core values and are focused on teamwork is the post's primary mission. Accomplishing that mission means training in excess of 50,000 basic training and advanced individual training Soldiers every year.

The post has other missions as well. Fort Jackson is home to the U.S. Army Soldier Support Institute, the U.S. Army Chaplains Center and School and the Defense Academy for Credibility Assessment (formerly the Department of Defense Polygraph Institute).

The fort includes more than 52,000 acres, including more than 100 ranges and field training sites and 1,160 buildings. Soldiers, civilians, retirees and family members make up the Fort Jackson community that continues to grow in numbers and facilities. More than 3,900 active duty Soldiers and their 14,000 family members are assigned to the installation and make this area their home. Fort Jackson employs almost 5,200 civilians and provides services for more than 36,000 retirees and their family members. An additional 12,000 students attend courses at the Soldier Support Institute, Chaplain Center and School and Drill Sergeant School annually.

The fort will continue to grow in the coming years as a result of the recent Base Realignment and Closure Commission’s decision to make Fort Jackson the home of the Army’s only Drill Sergeant School, the Department of Defense Joint Center of Excellence for Military Chaplaincy and one of four new Regional Readiness Sustainment Commands.

Since 1917, when fighting men were needed for World War I, Fort Jackson has a proud history of supporting our Army in times of war. That tradition continues today as the fort willingly accepts new challenges related to the War on Terrorism and stands ready to accept any additional mission in support of our nation’s defense."

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 From: John C. Bauermeister
To: Cobra Sports International, Inc.
Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 11:31 AM
Subject: RE: Invoice from Cobra Sports International, Inc.

 Hello,

I just wanted to email and tell you that we absolutely love our cobra outdoor volleyball net system. I made a custom grass volleyball court and the net looks and works great! I will take some digital photos and send them to you, you might want to use them on your website it looks so good.

 Thanks!!!

John

 

 

 

Purchased the Outdoor Cobra System on Ebay on 18OCT09. My Ebay user name is PYRA11. It's a great system! I couldn't be happier! Thanks! 
 
Chris Harpell
639 Charles Hamilton Drive
Collierville, TN 38017
901-854-8174
snowyblues@comcast.net

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Byline: Chris Carola Associated Press

On a chilly autumn night, the cars begin pulling up to a row of old warehouses tucked between a back street and a busy interstate. In ones and twos, people in athletic clothing walk through a lighted door and onto the beach.

Well, not exactly a beach, but three sand volleyball courts in a former cigarette and coffee warehouse. For sand volleyball players life can be a beach, even if there's three feet of snow outside and the thermometer reads 10-below.

At Albany's Planet Volleyball, the growing popularity of indoor sand volleyball as an antidote to the cold-weather blahs is evidenced by the swarm of people in their 20s and 30s bumping, setting and spiking their way through an evening. Afterward, they move to the bar to have a few beers

``What you can do here is almost feel like you're outside on the sand,'' said Sue Wolfson, a social worker from Albany. ``You're not hibernating like a bear all winter.''

Planet Volleyball, which opened last winter, is one of a growing number of  "volleybars''  with indoor sand volleyball courts, bars and restaurants.

USA Volleyball, the sport's governing body,  estimates there's 100 volleyball centers in the nation that have at least one indoor sand court, plus another dozen or so that offer only sand courts. Most are in the Northeast or Midwest, where harsh winters are the norm and cabin fever remedies are always welcome.

``People want to get out, and they want to exercise during the winter. It's tough to do it outside in Albany, N.Y.,'' said  beach volleyball gold medalist Kent Steffes.  

The sport got a big boost from television exposure during the Olympics, where the beach volleyball competition was played before capacity crowds. Watching Americans Karch Kiraly and Steffes win the sport's first gold medal spurred a new interest in the sand game.

``They're getting a taste of it,'' said  Steve Butler,  a computer technician who plays on the indoor sand at Planet Volleyball to keep sharp for summer beach tournaments. ``They saw Karch Kiraly playing doubles and here they are.''

A chance to meet and mingle with others and the impending start of another long and cold winter are other factors driving indoor sand volleyball's appeal.

``Some of these places are great scenes,'' Steffes said. ``But that's beach volleyball. There's always been a social undertow to it. It's not just a game.''

Rochester's Hot Shots, started five years ago and the first facility of its kind in the Northeast, has six indoor sand courts and eight outdoor courts. Five thousand people play on 450 teams, and on any given winter night about 500 people jam the place, diving around in the sand and bellying up to the bar afterward.

``You can always run into somebody you know,'' Hot Shots owner J.B. Shares said. ``They feel they can get a workout and take advantage of the social atmosphere.''

The social aspect of the game isn't lost on organizers. Many sand leagues require each team to have at least two female players, ensuring a mixing of sexes not normally found in other recreational sports such as softball or basketball.

``After you play volleyball with someone, you really know their personality,'' Plant Volleyball manager Dawn Brown said. ``It's a lot like golf. You get to see how they handle the pressure, whether they stay positive when they're down.''

Despite its growing popularity, the indoor sand game isn't being embraced everywhere. A facility in Syracuse closed after little more than a year in business, as did another in New Jersey. A Hot Shots in Parma, Ohio, near Cleveland, closed earlier this year because the town wouldn't ease its alcohol ban, Shares said.

"It's tough to go into a place and create enthusiasm for volleyball if the enthusiasm for the sport isn't already there,'' he said.

Indoor sand volleyball centers, however, appear to have a bright future. Shares says he's looking into opening indoor beach courts in Buffalo, Chicago and Dublin, Ireland.

Wisconsin, better known for the NFL's Green Bay Packers and the frozen tundra of Lambeau Field, has become a hotbed of indoor sand volleyball.

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We started our Church Volleyball League with one Cobra Volleyball System.  Over the years other Churches in our Diocese purchased Cobras as well and we now have a 14 Church Volleyball League in Long Island, NY.  I was the coach from 1999 until  last year and have been very happy with our Cobra indoor volleyball equipment.  

Father Louis Nicholas
St. Paraskevi Greek Orthodox Shrine Church
Greenlawn, NY 11740

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