Sports enthusiasts tag Alyssa Valdez as “The Phenom” due to her remarkable volleyball skills. But despite the accolade and incessant praises, the former Lady Blue Eagle remains grounded and craving for improvement. She doesn’t settle with just her current win and she makes sure to display a better game each time.
In her TWBA guesting, Alyssa shares one magical technique she uses inside the court to make a perfect-landing service and toss. She tells Boy Abunda to look for the spot where a ball pump needle is inserted and make sure to land the palm in there. This makes the ball float smoothly and drop in the end. Although, the tactic still requires good timing in order to work. This makes the ball float smoothly and drop in the end.
Proving her thirst for growth is her decision to enter the world of acting. “Confident ako!” the athlete says in jest when asked about her transformation as a movie actress. Alyssa relates that there are people who would easily give up when faced with either a little or major dilemma within a relationship. But according to Alyssa, her debut film “My Letters to Happy” shows that there are also others who are willing to stay despite the struggles and pain of falling in love.
To test her acting skills, The King Of Talk dares Alyssa to deliver a line from “Got To Believe,” the last movie filmed by Alyssa’s favorite actor, Rico Yan. Alyssa utters “I never really believed in forever but I think I found forever in you” in varying emotions – sacred, furious, and acting like in a conversation with boyfriend Kiefer Ravena.