Reddit mentions: The best volleyball net systems

As someone who lives in south mission beach, and plays frequently, Ill break it down for you. If you're all the way south at the jetty, those are "challenge courts" and they have rules posted on the posts. Weekday daytime shouldnt be an issue at all, but once 5 oclock hits those courts will generally be mobbed with people trying to play. Challenge court means that even if you're there first, someone can call "next" and youd have to honor it, and most likely, if you're beginner level and in a group, youd have to plays 2s, probably lose the game, and the court as its now the winners court. The more northern row of the jetty courts tends to be friendlier to groups while the row of courts nearest the lot tends to be the big boys. You're also probably less likely to get kicked off a womens net as those seem to lend themselves to womens games and coed group games. On the weekend, those courts can be used for closed games (no challenges allowed) until 10am, but then revert to challenge courts again at 10. If you move slightly north to Cohasset and Dover courts, those arent technically challenge courts, but there will be some advanced players on the Cohasset red courts tuesday, wednesday, thursday evening and weekends at 8 that will claim rights. The purple, green, yellow and blue courts on Dover are very coed/group friendly, non challenge courts that can be found open more than the red cohasset courts on the weekdays, and weekends theyll generally be taken by 8 or 9, and open back up by 1 depending on the crowds. Anything north of that are usually just posts and youd need your own net and lines to set up (same with the Pit across from Belmont park). If youre really trying to get into volleyball, and foresee many games with your friends and dont want to deal with the hassle of challenge courts, and avoid the dread of going to play only to find there are no courts open and dont want to assert yourself on challenge courts, you and the gang can always get your own net to set up for fairly cheap and never have to worry about public courts and getting the boot! I know thats a lot to take in, but it can be a little confusing and intimidating out there, and just wanna set you up for success and awesome volleyball!

Spectrum Classic Volleyball Net - Amazon

If you're looking for something for grass and portable, I bought a Park and Sun Classic net and it's pretty good. It's relatively easy to set up once you get the instructions right and hasn't seemed to sag at all. I use it mainly to practice spikes on so it gets banged on and holds up well. I will eventually start a meetup group for grass using it. I only wish it the bottom was more taught - you won't recover any balls that hit/roll off the net with this one.

I played on this net yesterday and it was actually really great. I have the Spectrum Classic by Park and Sun. Then net at Costco is Not as good as the Spectrum classic. (but it's also $190 cheaper).

If you want a quality net, and aren't going to be shelling out over $230 any time soon, I highly recommend this net. I can't believe it's only $70 after the discount. (It comes with a shitty ball, and you might want to go to Home Depot and buy a few flat head nails so you can hammer the net into the ground. Other than that I was very impressed by everything in the bag. Note: the poles are steel instead of aluminum, thus it is heavier the the Spectrum Classic

Out of the price range but you can't go wrong with this

If you want one level up (better for the beach), get this one: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004EFZ7GY?psc=1