Spikeball Community… aka Blog

The Chicago Trolley rolled up to Beast’s house on Friday night and was covered in Spikeball banners within minutes. We handed out stickers, business cards, and T Shirts to about 30 Spikeballers including Creepy Spikeball Santa (see pix on Facebook) and all jumped on. We hit about 5 bars that night handing out cards and inviting folks to come down to the beach on Saturday. Some loved us, others hated us. The haters got stickers on their backs. The final stop was Cortland’s Garage in Bucktown. Biggggy and I went searching for a late night burrito. Bigggggy, being of not so abled mind and body, ordered the “Tongue Taco”. Seriously, a taco with tongue meat. Strike 1 Biggggy.

Saturday was perfect. 80 degrees, sun, light breeze, 5 Spikeball sets in constant use, it couldn’t get better. There must have been 5 billion people at the beach. Enough red necks and “You know where the weight room is?” pickup lines to stretch all the way to Havasu. Pat got there early to protect our space against the volleyball players and Speedo-clad leathery old men who wanted “their spot”. Beast was supposed to show up at 9am as well but I think one too many Zima the night before nixed that. 10am- really Beast?

By about 11am we started hearing the beautiful, never-ending refrain of, “What is Spikeball? How do you play? Where can I get my own set?” We had tons of people playing, eating (Tim brought sliced celery, seriously), hanging, and just enjoying the day. It was great to see that a lot of people would wander over, pick up a ball and start playing. The age range on the sand was 2 years old to about 50. The first-timers started a little timid but after about 4 minutes of play they were talking serious trash.

We played with some Irishmen who walked up with their hurling equipment (look it up, I had to). We had to explain there was no wooden stick in Spikeball unless someone needs to be taught a lesson. We had a father and son come and play for about an hour. What better pre-Father’s Day present could you ask for? They got their own set and made plans to play the next day with 10 friends that were coming to town. The love is spreading.
Saturday night we basked in the glory with a band called Alaska Thunder F*%^. They were incredible. If I wore a bra, I would have thrown it on stage. These guys rocked. We covered the bar in www.doihavespikeball.com posters and got our groove on. Some got too much of a groove on and left early, thankfully. Trying to spread the word a bit more, I left a stack of Spikeball business cards near the sink in the bathroom. About two minutes later someone asked me why there were 20 Spikeball cards in the urinal. Brilliant! Spikeball urinal cakes in the future?

Anyway, enough words— check out the pix on Facebook Spikeball Photos and Flickr Spikeball Photos.

Enjoy,

Chris

chris@spikeball.com

PS: have you checked out doihavespikeball.com ? One word: Spikeballicious.

Fellow Ballers and future Ballers,
Summer begins today.  That’s right, you heard me.  June 21st doesn’t matter anymore.  Our good friend Spikeball.com has just changed things.  Celebrating the official birth of ummm…itsel, Spikeball.com has decided to move up one of the most anticipated days of the year.  Mark your calendar, Summer begins today, June 4rd .  (this is not a Nicole “Summer” Eggert Baywatch reference)

Let’s talk about Spikeball.com a bit more, shall we?  It’s live, kicking, strutting, delivering death stares and ready to mop you up.  Before you rush out to go see the best “all ages” site out there, let me explain a bit about what you’ll find.

Don’t know the rules of the game? Get schooled here…

http://www.spikeball.com/thegame.php

And to those of you that still don’t know who I am or what we’re about- take a look at the “Who We Are” page.

http://www.spikeball.com/whoweare.php

How techno-geeked-out-slick is Spikeball.com?  We are soooooo slick we even have our own blog.  Yea, take that, Volleyball!  Spikeblog?  Spikeblogball?  I don’t have a clever name for it yet but you can keep up with the latest Spikeball scandals/exploits here…

http://community.spikeball.com/

And most importantly, this is the most powerful button online today (bookmark this one).  It’s the one that officially brings you into the coolest club since those kids with jean jackets and cigarettes in 8th grade started theirs.  Click on the button below, grab your wallet (sense the super subtle sales effort?), and enter a whole new world.

http://www.spikeball.com/theequipment.php

As always, tell your Mama, tell your Daddy, tell everyone that you rule because you’ve been to Spikeball.com.

Summer is here,

Chris

PS: Launch party in Chicago on June 14th at North Ave Beach.  Go.

chris@spikeball.com

Hey Folks-
If you’re reading this, you know spikeball.com is alive and kicking like a 3 hour old donkey. We’re fixing the kinks and polishing her up before she’s ready to come out of the garage and get that MASS EMAIL telling the world she’s live. That note is coming in the next few days but for now, consider yourself freakin’ royalty for seeing this before the announcement.

I’m still playing around with the blog software to see how it all works so please read and click slowly so I can keep up. I’m decent with the internets and the Google (who said that?) but am new to blogging so let’s consider this an experiment and see how she goes…

Since we’re in our not so secret “stealth mode” go ahead play around on the site. I know there are some periods and question marks where there shouldn’t be. Knowing our audience is a bright one, I left those there to test your punctuation skillz. Send me a note at chris at spikeball.com with any irregularities you find. There may even be a free Spikeball sticker in it for you…if you’re nice.

OK, here is where we need your help. As I mentioned a few weeks ago we are getting tons of people (I’m hearin’ you San Diego) asking us about the game. Who knew people in Turkey would want to play? The feedback is great but we need more, more, and just a bit more. Let’s spread this site quicker than that rash you had sophomore year in college. Send this site to your ENTIRE ADDRESS BOOK and you can be the one to say, “Why am I the coolest kid on the block? Because I knew about Spikeball before it was even launched” and watch your friends turn green with envy.

As our friend from Kazakhstan would say, “Wa Wa Wee Wa”

See you on the beach,

Chris

chris@spikeball.com

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