Wow - was that an eye opener!
Fed up with everyone else having fun and playing outdoors whilst I prop up a bar in London I decided to find a London based club I could visit. I did dismiss "Dynamo Dykes Volleyball Club - the first lesbian volleyball club (www.dynamodykes.org.uk/content/framesetb_cl.htm)". Even though they are closest. I didn't think I'd meet the entry requirements. I chose the Wapping Wildcats (www.wappingwildcats.co.uk/) partly because the email exchange happened and seemed very friendly. It's a half hour on the tube. They were very friendly.
There were 26 people there with a single court. Their warm up was 45 minutes and left me completely worn out. Then we did a few fairly ordinary passing/volleying/hitting drills. Then we did some standard hitting/blocking drills though 4 and through 3. I blocked a Japanese girl, who stands barely chest high to me, she nearly took my hand off!
Then we did some really complex hitting drills with the attacking hitter and a distracter crossing over in the run in to the net. Surprisingly no-one got injured.
Finally we did play a few matches. It was a fun evening. I enjoyed it and I met some very nice people. I'll be going back. That was a fiver well spent!