what's up guys welcome back i am so
excited for this video because i have
another guest
my big brother kavika shoji
what's up everyone glad to be here with
you
on eric's famous youtube channel
why are you laughing at me like that all
right you guys for those of you who
don't know
kawika shoji he went to stanford
university
with me i kind of followed him he is a
three-time all-american
a national champion a champions league
bronze medalist
a olympic bronze medalist and a lot of
other things blah blah blah
that we don't need to know about eric is
here because of me
i take all the credit hahaha
anyway could we go what game are we
going to be watching today
we are going to be watching the fibb
world club championships bronze medal
match between
eric's faulkel team and my aseko ris
soviet team
yeah so we decided to pick a match where
we were playing against each other
because we have played against each
other many times in high school
and professionally i think like 13 times
maybe in total kavika's winning so we're
not going to really talk about that
but yeah so we're going to be watching
the bronze medal match from the fibb
club world championships but before we
do that we're going to play a little
game of
this or that together you know could be
a little bit
better let's go
all right i'm going to give you two
options or three maybe
all two options and you got to choose
which one you prefer just like
off the top of your head okay easy one
coffee or tea
coffee do you ever drink tea
occasionally
not really not really in this day if i'm
feeling sick all right kabika you have
two
little girls two kids love them very
much
would you rather have me babysit them
or our sister kobe
my sister kobe hands down next question
i i have babysat them but i forgot to
put
um jammies on aj the oldest ones and
they got really mad because she was cold
you're a good babysitter anyway all
right
uh the last three seasons you played in
italy and poland
so playing volleyball in italy or
playing volleyball in poland
that's a tough one italy why
food tourism
tourist attractions oh yeah the best
league in the world
uh milder winters true
and more things to do for the family on
our free days
but it was also fun to play in poland
because they love volleyball there
but if i had to choose i would go with
italy
okay
so after losing a game or a match or
like a golf round
riding home with mom in the car or
riding home with dad
this is a 20 minute drive
well i heard i saw that dad was a little
hater on me in the last video
and so i won't throw under the bus too
bad but the simple answer is mom
agreed mom love you mom all right
early bird or night owl early bird
currently because i am getting a little
older and
have two young baby girls so i think
everyone can understand that one
but i feel like you used to be a night
owl so when we were in college
my sophomore year kavika's senior year
he explicitly told me and my friend brad
not to live by him
in the frat house that we lived in and
where did
brad and i end up living right next door
but
kavika used to come and knock at our
door at like one in the morning do you
guys want to eat i have no one to eat
with
that last part wasn't true but he used
to do that all the time so i feel like
you were a night owl
we had fun we had fun for the
hawaii crowd here for your kids
would you send them to iolani ilani
i didn't get to finish that or punahou
where i went anyway
cool go raiders baby
for a vacation five-star resort or
camping
five-star research yeah we're not a
camping family you guys
it's like no and
a five-star resort with a golf course
good one vnl silver
or world championships bronze both of
which we won
world championships bronze although v l
silver brings a little bit more money
for the bonus that that's true for the
people that want to know
golf or basketball for what
to play now well you don't play basket
like in life basketball is the ultimate
sport for me but you can play golf
forever
and it's a very relaxing what you say
those hips aren't working so well
anymore
i can play golf forever so i'll go with
goal okay
last question so we've played on
teams together many times
at stanford for club where else
berlin and innova sibirsk for russia
so rooming with me or rooming with
anyone else brewing with micah
christensen
i i don't blame you i'm hard to remember
sometimes
oh you're fine you're fine he's the one
that like blasts
his light like at midnight when i'm
trying to go to sleep
he's high means means anyway that's all
the questions for today thank you for
playing kavika
great to know you even better okay so
like we said we're gonna be watching a
match that we played
against each other at the club world
championships this is the third set
tied one one the score is eight to eight
before we get into this quick
what do you remember about this game and
maybe tell us one strategy that your
team had
going into it we knew that it would be a
tough game
it was an important game for us as a
club because we got off to the season
really slowly and poorly and so we were
trying to
capitalize on this moment to kind of
propel us forward in the season
in poland strategically wise
i remember that we had to serve really
tough i think especially at
kaluka trying not to let you touch the
ball
and hopefully not allow
kaluka to go over me too many times in
this match because he's holding
high tall order but literally tall
literally a tall order he's very tall
and volkov is very good as well
but it was a great match let's get
started right now
oh look who's serving
kavika oh man we gotta go
gotta get the shoulder loose you know oh
did you plan to start this video
guess what shimmy wasn't quite how rude
how rude i do remember
i mean i i probably i do remember
looking back at this tournament and i
didn't serve very well
i was pretty disappointed because i went
on to having
to have a really good serving year but i
didn't have my serve
at full strength in this match so that's
probably why you guys bear i didn't have
my passing
in this match either you barely beat us
because of that
oh okay nice that we'll watch that one
again
so a little bit of a tight pass here but
gets up with one hand and dave smith our
middle for the national team
is so good on these he's just like
crafty always around the block
definitely a target for you to set shout
out to d smith
that was pretty sweet little one hand
and then he gets on it fast beats the
block
yours names are so bold on your on the
back
there are special uniform regulations
for this tournament
i don't think you guys abided by them
big numbers big names
we had we had different jerseys too
okay he's so annoyingly good at that he
just did that to us in the final six in
russia
not fun to play against because i
actually
read this tip but he throws it
over the block and into the middle of
the court and it's just a tough ball to
get
well he's coming from so high that his
tips are so effective because they're
fast
and they're just like like strange
angles so it's pretty hard to play
against
ah igor kolodinsky my setter oh
all right i remember dave smith he was
he was oh
oh i'm communicating
dave smith was coming at me this see oh
oh
oh let's go haircut see i didn't know
that was coming either
so eric eric got ace on his youtube
channel
oh god and yeah to let you guys know we
actually haven't
watched this we haven't for this set
before this so this is all
coming back to us now i just let him
have a blast
i let him have a match that he won for
his youtube channel
it happens it happens don't let it
happen again
all right at volkov that time oh gosh
did you see me i was like come on two in
a row for
d smitty back when we had crowds
well we had crowds in russia look at
that polish crouch shout out to the
polish fans out there we have a lot of
fans
amazing fans and crowd here we go high
ball
dress
will you kill the ball please come on
oh nice up but they net that's a huge
bummer an important point
up 12 10. two great digs
he's a very good defender in position
six he's so tall and long he can reach
so many balls
that we needed who's one of my
one of my good friends we need him to
kill the ball but that's okay
he killed a lot of balls for me this
going to rip it
not really great pass
what
okay he's like did you guys he was
reaching he wasn't over the net
please show the replay here we go kavika
kind of gets him here
oh wow that was basically a dig
are you he basically was that officer
can you stop can we see that one more
time
do we even teach middles to do that like
just play defense at that point
how does that happen kuba yarosh makes a
great swing and
he blocks him from under the net that
was so
lucky oh wait
12 12.
nice set could be a good rhythm oh
that a boy t-ball so what's interesting
about roussard is that he's a lefty and
he plays on the left
is there anything different about
setting lefties on the left side in
position four
i would say that obviously you gotta try
to get the ball out to the antenna as
best you can but you also have to
try to keep the ball closer to the net
than normal
it's hard for lefties to spike the ball
if the ball
is coming off the net from behind them
okay there's a better pass thank
goodness
yeah all right let's watch this pass a
little again
so i make a much better move to my right
more simple more steady
get my body a little bit more in front
of it don't break apart resulting in a
better pass
we should probably get pick that up i
make a move from off the net
but not quick enough and it goes a
little bit deeper
and our area one defender doesn't react
quickly either and we let a tip go down
that's the thing there's little cues
that you can pick up for tips whether
the arm extends the ball might be a
little bit high
but as soon as you see that you want to
be ready and maybe a little bit
more forward
and honestly if there's a funky these
are serving tough
see that ball got tighter and it
resulted in a great swing with so much
with so much rhythm with a good rhythm
for roussard to hit that ball and
roussard has a really fast and heavy
shoulder
this is really good tempo also from
often there's a fight on that path
four meters off yeah see how that bowl
gets all the way to the antenna and
unders is over but he drops his right
hand just a little bit
but roussard can hit and she doesn't
quite line up on the left arm
oh thank god well enough and t was a
great serve
bailed you out we talk about lefty
serves on this channel a lot how they're
just a little bit different
and he's one of the top lefty servers in
the world so anytime he misses it's just
kind of a
great relief yeah
all right double sub here bogdan was my
starting outside this year
in fact but this season with kaluka and
volkov he was the third but would come
in as a double sub
to play opposite sometimes
just depending on the lineup and the and
the different matchups
sometimes you guys have the same haircut
too people think we look alike yeah
at times but i mean i was out
was that up yeah but we cleaned it up
got one on one
good pass good set and nice side out
like
yuck next one one foot set yep one on
one going back
again fun crowd chester cova
back when we had fans oh my gosh this
guy's served we missed
like the weirdest sorry nope it's just
like a weird float
weird angle into r row one p one
oh well that one worked out but we had a
good team i mean we had bogdan
volkov clyuca what else did we have
coledinsky
left who was best middle at the 2019 vl
uddress who's a
bella russian star we played very well
this match too yeah
nice pass what oh my god
what is happening right now
nice oh okay again with like the stab
of the block under the net that's not
how you want to block you guys
just letting you know i don't remember
that oh you're frustrated
but somehow it worked they touched the
block on a pipeline
under the net
do you think that set was low i have to
watch the replay but
look like you just missed down the line
all right tell us a little about your
team who's on your team
we had a solid team this year we got off
to a slow start like i said
but we finished this season really
strongly um
but we started a little bit too slowly
and typically roussard is a very good
reset receiver especially in float serve
also mika is good in floats of reception
so both these guys are good we had luke
perry as our libra
australian libro shout out to luke loved
playing with him
david smith donna mojonek in the middle
as well
polish names polish national team
world champions a couple of them on our
team
okay i missed the set to dave a little
bit low and then we miscommunicate
on the block here either all three of us
should be blocking or at least two
blockers should be blocking or zero
and it looked like dave called off the
block and
you didn't i either didn't hear it or i
thought that he had a
nice approach and i thought we should be
blocking which is obviously just a
miscommunication and
we should have been blocking on that one
dave with the float again
causing a little bit of problem with
this float
nice swing there so the one thing with
volkov serves that he can float it
or rip his serve like you you normally
are used to seeing so
those two passers they can't move up
maybe in flo serve receive
or move back like in a jump serve you
have to be ready for both which can kind
of cause some confusion
and i get eric
yeah that's clean
nice up what's happening
what's happened oh
not a great pass by me to start the
rally you were you aiming at me that's
rude
so this dig that's nice dig by luke
little jazz you just didn't control the
ball not a great control
by your second setter and then
without really jumping hits the overpass
he's like eight feet yeah he's pretty
low
that's two what am i doing you went
aggressive there
too aggressive were you even practicing
that i was oh
but i can't say that that was the best
decision
after after a point it's 20 or 19.
serving you you were so scared of my
father i was freaking out
all right jakob left he has a he's a
gnarly float
siberians oh they call it siberians
nice cover tough set
nice up oh
those are the clue hits that just go
over and you're like well
what can i really do but i was a nice oh
what's oh yeah because kaluka stared us
down a little bit too
no don't butt me look stare
stare stare turn around buddy
turn yeah maybe maybe he's a good player
and he goes over real high
but this float our floaters are causing
some problems here
not on that one
i hope you guys heard that grunt on
camera
he was pissed at the last point probably
pissed at kaluka
probably oh straight ot
that was a nice swing that was a nice
one i don't know
good float surf too
no way this is so funny
just playing with these guys for three
years seeing their
celebrations and stuff actually that was
kind of a
sick rule it was a sick role shot but
that could have also went in the neck
yeah it was one of those that was going
to be perfect or just like
off his hand
serving five to five there with the
float he's
his serve i think in 2014 was one of the
best float serves in the world yeah
but against oh there's my president um
against clioka
and volkov they step up so
nice tool so far forward on servicing to
take it with their hands it's
it's still an effective serve but
they're so good with their hands that
he i don't know what what's my point
here
they step up really far that's it
use the rules to their advantage they do
it's not always pretty
oh dave i think i get aced again
no i went to demo
night that was i think over the block as
well
so udris had a harder time
hitting fastballs so he just set high
balls to him in position four
but he's so tall and can jump pretty
well that he just
went over a lot of blocks and he played
well this tournament he played really
well in this match
all right 19. kaluka's serving
he's serving from position one in this
match but now he kind of serves from
six ish
i'm sorry he's passing well oh oops
we're passing pretty well and i am
trying to find the hot hand because
oh remember that screen oh
great pass let's see what happens here
great spike down the line and he's not
that big he jumps well
he jumps well but notice rossard's
shoulders forward
keeping the angle towards the net
oh my gosh it's what i always say on my
channel
nice up so we always had our outside set
the second ball
trying to set it over on me
see that one was a little bit low he
didn't quite get there kind of blasted
out
wait why did they give us the point oh
we got a challenge coming up
we got a challenge 21 serving 23 yards
yarosh
yep here's a pretty good service kind of
funky
nice just body that up kept stable
was that over oh my gosh no that wasn't
over but you guys could have definitely
converted that
these points are breaking my heart rate
watch out again
so mika dives to position one he
probably could have taken this ball
yeah but yados reaches back but mika
made a great read on that yeah but
yadosh didn't know that he was behind
him
it happened quick maybe we could
communicate a little bit better but it
is a fast play but there was a really
screaming
right here here's a good angle look at
that thank you look at that reed
and then we just kind of gaffed it
gaffed a little bit
and they take advantage on a really
important pipe
pipe points i really yeah important pipe
all right so 2421 set point
he's our third middle he's coming in to
serve serving sub he has a pretty good
float
off the tape gosh
great spot by fluka right in that
sneaking yard
and that's not easy against yaakov he's
a fast middle
really good player now for team russia
also
saint petersburg yeah we just lost to
them
your old teammate good player timeout
22-24 rossard serving oh god
lefty look at that toss oh good sir
and and emoji just ot would not not
jumping right when you're seven feet
tall
passers when you overpass the ball stay
in it
you could see volkov volka he just
stayed on the ground and he probably
could have dug that that wasn't the
hardest overpass hit but
anyway so now here we are 24 24
yeah 23 24. nice pass kaluka
touch good touch he's starting at me
again
oh no let's watch that one so you got a
nice touch there
but kind of a high block so it's tough
first of all
we're going to start with the serve okay
cheebo's got one of the best serve but
he doesn't really go after it i'd like
to see him be a little more aggressive
get a nice touch i don't remember if
it's me or not and then we get a good
another good opportunity and we just
missed the dig
and we take this set 25 23
and the match later all right guys so we
took the set 25-23 pretty good set
kevika what were your
impressions takeaways anything you want
to talk about
no like we said that was the first time
we'd actually watched that set together
we thought that it would be kind of a
fun one to watch being 1-1 an important
match
great atmosphere i think it was a pretty
well played set actually there's a
couple aces
maybe a couple of bad touches but you
know in general we
we saw a lot of good actions in that set
yeah i wish
that um you didn't block any balls from
underneath i don't know what those
blocks were but they work
and that kind of turned out to be the
difference um but
that's true i was just going to ask you
what do you think the difference was but
those
weird blocks gave us two big points
i think it was pretty even throughout
the set and the match i would i would
say it was a pretty good match it came
down to the wire at the end
but we lost two three unfortunately
one three it was three one two three no
it was three one three one you want to
watch in the end
i trust you you're an encyclopedia but
you know
like i said it's your world famous
youtube channel so we're going to give
you the match that you want
okay exactly well
can i come back and do a team usa match
if there's a lot of views no i'm just
kidding i'm so happy
that i could get you on when we're on
the same team the channel of course
we can watch and these these reactions
and these
interactions are real this is how it is
in our house
yeah me winning that's how it is ow
anyway guys
thank you for watching i hope you
enjoyed this video get out play some
volleyball
and have some fun peace