A Club Isn't Built with Sand
Although we spend hours and hours playing in the sand, we don't want to use that material to build our castle. That's why we've decided to take the step of working with a platform like Abler to ensure a solid foundation, a system that helps us build something lasting and stable.
Switch Volley was born because we wanted to self-manage as beach volleyball players and not depend on any other club. In 2020, the clubs that existed in Madrid were indoor ones, with some beach activity in summer. We wanted the opposite: a club designed from beach volleyball and for beach volleyball.
A Nomadic Club
Perhaps our club's growth isn't so spectacular in terms of numbers. But it is if you look at the map. We started in Las Rozas de Madrid.
Then we moved to the Santander Financial City in Boadilla del Monte. Another season we trained at Club de Tenis la Moraleja and Club de Pádel La Moraleja. Then we went to the Municipal Sports Center in Moratalaz. This season we've made a leap that means a lot to us: we train at Madrid's first indoor beach volleyball court, at the Cerro Almodóvar Sports Center, inaugurated by the Madrid City Council in February 2025.
Despite so many changes, we've managed to form a community and now we finally have our first home. We are a project.
Our Small Great Achievements
[Image 1 here] (Players celebrating/connecting - represents their community spirit)
Every club has a turning point. That moment when you stop thinking you're "a group with enthusiasm" and start to understand you can achieve more important things. For us, that moment came in August 2021: we were runners-up in Spain at the Senior Club Championship.
After that we've been Champions of the Madrid Regional League and have received recognition from the municipality of Moratalaz for our work promoting beach volleyball in the district.
A Bit More About the Club
We were the first club in Madrid dedicated exclusively to beach volleyball. Our focus from the start was to put the player at the center of attention, as if they were the customer: as a club, we provide a service to the player. We resolve doubts, take problems off their hands, help with administrative tasks, etc. We organize everything necessary so they don't have to worry about anything other than training and playing.
Right now at Switch Volley we're about 100 people. We work from youth beginners through to high-level competition. We believe it's never too late to learn and improve. We don't understand "I can't." We believe that with enthusiasm and dedication you can always improve, and improve a lot.
Before Abler we organized ourselves quite well, all things considered. But we used separate tools. We had a platform oriented more towards accounting than actual club management, and we communicated mainly through WhatsApp. That left some loose ends:
- payments
- communication
- attendance tracking
- group organization
In November 2025 we started using Abler. And it really helps to be more efficient, professionalize management and reduce the number of apps and platforms. Now we have in one place: payments, database, communication. And from there we use it for what really sustains the club's day-to-day:
- player management
- fee collection
- registrations
- training attendance
- club-player communication
- coach-player communication
- club-coach communication
- club-parent communication
More than adding a tool, Abler has allowed us to reduce noise and prevent the club from being divided into five different places where "the information is supposed to be."
Our 3-month goal was to completely eliminate WhatsApp from communications with students and simplify attendance management. In the end, with WhatsApp we weren't as careful with data protection and it's not a management tool, surveys end up being awkward, they get lost among all the chat messages, etc.
At 12 months, our goal is to improve player and student satisfaction by 20%. It's a concrete figure because the change we're looking for is also concrete. We want the player to notice it:
- in the simplicity of signing up a new interested person
- in the clarity of communication
- in the organization of groups
- in attendance tracking
- in the feeling that everything is connected
The club coordinator and coaches are the ones who manage it and we understand it as invisible training for the club.
What excites us is more satisfaction, more connectivity, simpler registration, a more agile club. What gives us pause is also: data protection and information security. Digitizing isn't just "organizing." It's accepting that a growing club has to better protect what it stores. And care for trust.
Switch Volley is a school, a competitive club and a way of living beach volleyball. People come to Switch to live beach volleyball. And to truly live it, it's not enough to train well, you have to properly sustain the club that makes it possible.
And that's where Abler is helping us: so that the invisible no longer depends on manual effort, so that growth isn't a risk, so that day-to-day is simpler, so that the player is better cared for without needing to explain it.
Switch to the beach, but each time, with the club running a little bit better.
