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Summer Beach Volleyball Dates Set For Hermosa And Manhattan Beach

June 18, 2013 by kevinwilkerson Leave a Comment

Hermosa And Manhattan Open, Smackfest, 6-Man And The Gills 2013

Hermosa Beach Open volleyball
It's a summer of smashes with volleyball events like the Hermosa Beach Open.


It’s not summer in Southern California unless there are beach volleyball tournaments and here’s the dates for the key pro (and fun) ones in Hermosa and Manhattan Beach.

• SMACKFEST: JULY 20
North side of Hermosa Beach Pier to 15th Street

Smackfest Hermosa Beach costumes
Smackfest in Hermosa Beach starts the sizzin' volleyball summer.

What a way to start the South Bay summer of beach volleyball! It’s the best of them all, in part because the people can actually participate. Coed teams of 6-person volleyball takes up the entire north side of the beach at the pier for an all-day event that’s fun even if you don’t play in it.

Like 6-man and The Gillis, Smackfest features teams in themed costumes, and they set up stations on the beach. Between games they run into the bars – Sharkeez on the pier is the official host establishment – to down Bud Light specials and make it back (usually) in time for the next game.

Link: Smackfest Party Guide 2013 Event Information

• THE GILLIS: AUG. 10-11
Dockweiler Beach, El Segundo

The Gillis beach volleyball tournament
The silly Gills is the original 6-man. Photo: Jack Fleming

The Gillis is the original 6-man, a fun tournament where people originally showed up to play the tournament in costumes.  This it the 43rd annual event and for that, the organizers deserve a big round of cheers. They even have a beer sponsor (Bud Light)! That’s something they never would have believed in its early years.

The location is actually where they should hold the 6-man, on the “no man’s land” stretch of beach between north Manhattan Beach and Playa del Rey. There’s no houses to trample through in the area, no residents to disturb, few regular beach-goers to obstruct and no one, really, to interrupt. You could put Jimmy Buffett out there and not bother a person. In fact, last year the Gillis did have a band on the beach.

Link: The Gillis Beach Volleyball Tournament Review & Photos

• SURFEST/6-MAN: JULY 31-Aug. 1
South side of the Manhattan Beach Pier

Final shot of Manhattan Beach 6-man 2012
This is the final shot of the 2012 Manhattan Beach 6-man.

Once the wildest and most fun event not just of the volleyball, or even the summer, but the entire year, the “6-man” as its known to locals has retreated from its recent party past like waves at low tide.

Instead, the focus is back on the volleyball which frankly, was always spectacular even during its zany zenith. Fortunately, there’s still costumes and entertaining (and talented) teams like Smack Sportwear’s super-popular Magnum p.i.. And the Bud Girls going through the bars on the pier during the daytime.

The 2013 event has edged a day closer to the weekend; it’s on Wednesday and Thursday rather than Tuesday-Wednesday like last year.

Link: Surfest 6-man Party Guide Tournament Review & Photos

• HERMOSA BEACH OPEN: AUG. 16-18
North side of Hermosa Beach Pier to 13th Street

Hermosa Beach Open volleyball 2009 final
The Hermosa Beach Open brings the South Bay to the sand. Photo: Jack Fleming.

 

Hermosa Beach Open Bud Light Girls
One of the best things about the Hermosa Open is the Bud Girls at the bars! Photo: Jack Fleming

 

This is actually called the West Coast Championships, and it’s part of the pro tour for the National Volleyball League. No matter; locals will always call it the Hermosa Open.

It’s professional beach volleyball. Among the players is Hemosa Beach local Sean “Rosie” Rosenthal, who will have his group of groupies known as Rosie’s Raiders cheering him on (and drinking in the bars). Former Manhattan Beach Open winner Kevin Wong is also an NVL player, as is Olympic Gold Medalist Todd Rogers. April Ross, Jennifer Kessy and Whitney Pavlik are among the top women’s players.

Look for bar promos all weekend on the Hermosa Beach Pier with the Bud Light girls!

• MANHATTAN BEACH OPEN: AUG 23-25
South side of the Manhattan Beach Pier

Manhattan Beach Open volleyball crowd
The volleyball-friendly crowd loves the Manhattan Beach Open.

 

Manhattan Beach Open volleyball Bud Girls
The Bud Girls also make the rounds of the bars at the Manhatttan Open.

 

The AVP is back!

The Association of Volleyball Professionals are fielding the players for the 2013 Manhattan Beach Open which is the Wimbledon of Beach Volleyball.

There is some crossover with NVL players – most notably “Rosie” and Rogers – and the AVP’s roster also includes Phil Dahlausser and Kerri Walsh Jennings. So the quality of play will be top-level professionals and that will bring back the volleyball-loving crowd, and that will in turn pack the bars again as in the good ‘ol days.

As with the case in Hermosa the previous weekend, the Bud Light girls will be all over the tournament and handing out Mardi Gras beads and mingling with patrons in the bars along the pier like Shellback Tavern, Ercoles and Shark’s Cove.

Link: Manhattan Beach Open 2013 Tournament Review Party Guide

Cheers!

 

 

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: 6-man, AVP, beach vollyeball, Hermosa Beach, Hermosa Open, Manhattan Beach, Manhattan Open, party events, Pro Beach Volleyball, Smackfest, The Gillis

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