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The Secret Volleyball BellyButton Technique Part 1
The Cedar Ridge High School volleyball team had a coach who was sometimes known for his unorthodox workout techniques and game time strategy. They were a good team, with a history of winning, so nobody doubted him, but Coach Spencer was known by current and former players for his focus on the belly buttons of his team. But from the outside looking in, it would take a keen eye to notice anything was off. Izzie was an incoming freshman who intended to try out for the volleyball team. She had played in middle school and she’d gotten to be pretty good. It would be a dream come true if she could make the CRHS varsity squad as a freshman. A freshman on Coach Spencer’s team was a rare occurrence, Izzie had her work cut out for her, but she was willing to do whatever it took. A few weeks before school started, Coach Spencer announced tryouts would be held over the following days to determine this year’s roster. Izzie was ready, she had been training all summer. Izzie was a petite brunette with a thin frame. She was about 5’2 but barely 95 pounds. Small for a volleyball player, but she was a libero, a position where height wasn’t necessary. Izzie had a cute face with big brown eyes. Izzie also had a tiny, shallow little innie belly button, something that will become more important later. The bottom of her navel was smooth, no details, just a tiny little hole in the middle of her ripped stomach. Izzie’s abs were incredible, it wasn’t a full six pack but she had a perfect line down the middle of her stomach and her belly button sat directly on it. “Alright ladies, thank you all for coming,” Coach Spencer said, “day one of the tryout will be purely physical. I just want to make sure everyone is up to snuff in that department before we get to the volleyball.” Izzie looked around, the rest of the girls looked happy, and smiling, yet focused and determined. She could tell that they respected Coach Spencer, he had a good relationship with his team. “Are you sure Lila’s still gonna be on the team, coach?” One of the players asked, “she’s looking a little slow this year.” The rest of the team laughed. Lila was a senior, the star of the team who already had several D1 offers for both beach and indoor volleyball. “Yeah Lila, you’ll just have to prove you can keep up with the rest of these little maggots,” Coach Spencer said with a chuckle. “You got it coach,” Lila said, taking the playful banter in stride, “I’ll earn my spot.” “Alright let’s go! 4 laps!! Let’s get started ladies!” **TWEET** Coach Spencer blew his whistle and the girls began their warmup. Izzie was able to keep up with all the physical demands easily. She was quicker and faster than most of the girls, and she definitely had the endurance. Coach ran them through lots of physical drills to test their jumping and diving abilities, and any sort of thing they would need to do for volleyball. Izzie was doing well, she passed through the first part of the physical tryouts with flying colors. “Alright girls, now that we got that part out of the way, there’s one more physical aspect we have to go over. Returners, you probably know what’s coming,” Coach Spencer said. The veteran players on the team chuckled and rolled their eyes at each other as if they knew exactly what Coach was referring to. “Now some of you rookies or JV players might’ve heard some rumors about our team and our belly buttons. I want to be very clear, everything we do is based on science and the research that’s been done that proves outie belly buttons make for better athletes.” Izzie almost scoffed to herself, “outies? How could that be true? How could that matter?” but she looked around and saw that no one else was laughing. Coach continued, “I know that may sound strange to some of you, some of you might not have even noticed your belly button before, but it’s the secret to our team’s success.” Izzie thought of her own belly button. She put her hand under her shirt and felt the small, smooth hole between her abs. She noticed several other girls doing the same. “No need to be shy about it…” Spencer continued, “for the last segment of todays tryout, you’re all going to take your shirts off. It’s okay, you’re all big girls, you all have sports bras on.” Coach laughed “And make sure your waistband is rolled down low enough for us to see the belly button.” Izzie was confused, she hadn’t really expected this but the other girls began removing their shirts as if it were normal. She removed her own to expose her slightly tanned tummy and her black sports bra with hot pink trim. Izzie looked around at the other girls and her eyes widened. So many outie belly buttons! Izzie thought they were rare! She knew one or two friends with outies but everyone else she knew had innies. On this team, over half of the girls had outies! Some were bigger, some smaller, they all had their unique shape, but the innies were definitely in the minority. Izzie had never felt insecure about her belly button before, innies were normal. But now she felt like a weirdo. As she looked around for other innies, there were definitely a few, she wasn’t alone. She guessed that maybe 25-30 percent of girls had innies, but one of them was Lila! The star of the team! If Lila had an innie, and Coach Spencer liked her, Izzie felt like she would be fine. “Great, thank you all for your willingness to be a bit uncomfortable, you’ll get used to it I assure you.” Coach Spencer said to the players, “Some of you might be a little skeptical of our philosophy, and I understand, it’s a little ‘out there’ wink wink, pun intended,” Spencer jested. “But basically the numbers are there to support that on average, outie belly buttons run faster, can lift more, and overall play better. That’s proven, I’ll send you all the numbers in an email, the question now is, what do we do with our fine young innies on the team?” “We kick them out!” A girl named Kathy said, laughing, the whole team laughed. You might remember Kathy from some previous stories of mine, she’s a volleyball player who happens to have an outie. “No Kathy,” Spencer said chuckling, “that’s not what we do. We don’t kick out the innies, we just turn them into outies!” Izzie was thoroughly confused. Turn innies into outies? How would that even be possible? Plastic surgery? She thought. No, that would be outrageous, expensive, too much for high school volleyball. Were they supposed to get pregnant? Izzie had heard of pregnant women’s belly buttons popping out but she imagined that a pregnancy would make it difficult for one to play volleyball. She looked to Coach Spencer. “Now how do we turn innies into outies? It’s actually easier than you might think. Lila, would you like to demonstrate?” “Sure,” Lila rolled her eyes as if she knew Coach would ask her. Lila had an normal looking innie, a slightly vertically oriented oval. Izzie was too far to see perfectly but the inside of Lila’s navel just looked dark. The light didn’t reach the bottom. Lila walked up the front with Spencer. “Innie…” she announced. She reached down with her right hand and dug around in her belly button with her thumb and index finger. Her left hand pulled her stomach taught. With relative ease Lila was able to pull the knot at the base of her belly button to the outside and actually grab onto it. Lila in essence now had an outie belly button. “Outie!” She proclaimed as she held the knot of skin outside her belly. Izzie’s jaw almost dropped. Did Lila really just do that? She looked around at the other girls in amazement. Some looked as if they had seen it before, some looked disgusted, on the verge of puking, some burst out laughing, but Izzie was just dumbstruck, she began to fiddle with her own navel again, trying to accomplish the same feat. She was unsuccessful. “There you have it ladies, easy as that!” Spencer proclaimed with a smile. “I’m joking, this has taken Lila years of practice, by the way, you can pop it back in now Lila.” Lila released her navel and it popped right back to the way it was. Good as new. “I don’t expect all of you innies to be at this point immediately. I see some of you trying right now,” he glanced in Izzie’s direction and winked. “Don’t freak out if you can’t do it. We have ways of making it happen.” He chuckled. Izzie had no idea what that could mean, hopefully not surgery, she thought. “No let’s demonstrate how this is effective and why we do it. Lila, come on over to the bench press. I’ve got the weight here set at 95 pounds. 25 pound weights on each side plus the 45 pound bar. Let’s see how many reps Lila can do as an innie.” Lila planted herself down on the bench and layed down on her back. She lifted the bar off the rack and started to lift in up and down off of her chest. “Count for her now…” “1! 2! 3! 4!” The first four reps came easy but the fifth was a little slower. “5…. Come on you can get 6!” Coach Spencer cheered. “One more!!” Lila lifted the bar for a 7th and final time before resting it back on the rack. “7 reps… not bad,” said Coach Spencer as Lila sat up. “Take a break and then we’ll make an adjustment.” Lila began to sit up but Coach Spencer stopped her. “Don’t worry Lila, I got this,” Spencer laid one hand on Lila’s stomach up toward her rib cage, and with the other he fiddled with her navel for a moment. Izzie could see his fingers digging into Lila’s belly but she couldn’t see the exact technique he was using. After a moment, the base of Lila’s navel emerged with Spencer holding it between his thumb and index finger. “There she is!” Coach Spender announced. “There’s that little button!” Lila blushed… she inhaled deeply which sucked her stomach in and showed more of her rib cage in what was almost a vaccum, only coach Spencer was still holding onto the knot in the middle. “There you go,” he said, “Do you feels that tension when pulling your navel to your spine? Does it feel tight?” Spencer pulled on Lila’s navel a bit, just a slight tug. Lila winced, “OH yeah,” the crowd of girls watching laughed. “What’s happening here is the pressure and tension in Lila’s belly button here is causing all of her core to tense up.” He used his other hand to give Lila’s abs a quick squeeze. “You see these abs guys? Look at how tight they are!” The players nodded in understanding, many of the outies looking down and pulling on them, noticing their own stomachs tense up as well. “Outies are just generally more fit… all of that stems from better abs and core strength. Sorry innies, you guys just need a little extra help getting there,” Spencer said with a smile. “Ok Lila, let’s get you tied out and ready to go.” Tied out? Izzie thought. What did that mean? “Anyone have a hair tie?” Lila asked, “I forgot mine.” “Always bring at least 2 extra hair ties folks! Especially you innies! One for your hair, one for your belly!” Izzie had one around her wrist, as many girls did. She began to take it off. She offered it to Coach Spencer but he had already gotten one from another girl. Good thing. Izzie thought, turns out she might be needing it later. Next thing Izzie knew, Lila began tying that hair tie around her belly button. Once she had wrapped it a few times it just stayed out. “So that’s what ‘tied out’ meant,” Izzie murmured to herself. Coach Spencer put the same weight on bar. 95 pounds. Here Lila was, about to do the exact same thing she had just done. The only difference: she was now in “outie mode”. She lifted the bar and began to do more bench press reps. But she had barely slowed when she got to 5. She flew past 7 reps, her previous amount and it was only when she got to 12 that she started to slow down. She was able to pump out a few more and ended up pumping the bar 15 times. “Wow! You see that ladies?! That’s the difference! As an outie, Lila did more than double what she could as an innie!” Coach Spencer said to the onlooking players. “Hopefully that’s enough proof for all of you, but let’s move on.” Wow… Izzie thought, maybe Coach Spencer really was onto something. She’d never seen such an instant performance boost from something like that. “Let’s divide you up so we can make sure all our belly buttons are up to snuff! I’m going to have you self identify. If you are an outie, lucky you,” Coach Spencer said with a wink, “you can step over to my right. If you are an innie, come on over to my left. And if you aren’t sure… or if you’re an inbetweenie, you can stand right here in the middle…” Izzie looked down at her own belly button again. She was definitely an innie, her smooth and shallow divot sitting right in the middle of her abs. She walked over to Coach Spencer’s right side, ready for whatever happened next.
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It is very hard to trust people. I struggle with this type of thing a lot... You conveyed those feelings so well, this is lovely.