Volleyball

Volleyball Assignment Piper McFarlane 1) A diagram of the court and label/find a picture which shows where the centre line, attack line, baseline and free-zone is. 2) What are the main shots permitted in volleyball? The game of volleyball requires adequate skill and ability, which relies on a range of different shots. The serve, dig, set and spike. Being able to direct the ball utilising these shots are essential in gaining expertise in the sport. 3) How many players allowed on the court? The correct set up of a volleyball court requires six players. Three in the front row and three behind in the back row. 4) What are the separate roles of the players? The team is separated into specific individual…

swimmer without a pool? And lastly, what’s a volleyball player without a hand? Well, I’m about to tell you a story I’ve never told anyone before, and let me tell you, even the most excited athletes are still prone to injuries. It all started ten years ago, my junior year of high school. It was a warm, bright Sunday afternoon and volleyball season was right around the corner, but the first varsity practice of the year was in one day. I spent Sunday hanging out with friends and relaxing my muscles…

positive results will show on and off the playing field. The game of volleyball requires the player to have muscular strength in both the lower and upper body regions. In order to perform at a high level, volleyball players need a physical training program optimizing their biomotor abilities. The law of specificity states that there is…

School volleyball vs. Club Volleyball For many high school volleyball players there is a common goal of getting an athletic scholarship. But is playing high school volleyball enough to get into college? “About 432,176 high school athletes start out the season intending to make it into at least a Division I or II College. But only about four percent actually make it on to a college team” (NCAA). This is where club volleyball comes into play, it allows volleyball players to play a longer season…

Have you ever wondered what muscles are used when playing volleyball? Lets slow spiking a volleyball all the way down to each individual movement and figure out what muscles are involved from the very beginning to the end. To understand these many movements required in a volleyball spike you must first know the steps of spiking a volleyball, the joints, and the muscles involved. Volleyball is a widely known sport that uses all major muscle groups in just one simple movement such as the spike. …

I remember trying to learn how to set a volleyball. Setting is actually very difficult. To be a setter, it takes a lot of work, starting with simple things like catch and release drills. In a game, the setter is a very important player. Most of the time, hitters receive the star attention and all the credit, but they can’t do all the work by themselves, which is where the defensive specialists, liberos, and setters come in. Without a good set, the hitter can do nothing. Even before that, there…

Even as a little fifth grader, new to volleyball, at the height of 4’10, I grew a love for setting and trained for it as often as I could. For my first two years of playing I never was on an actual team, but anytime I got to work in the gym I would automatically want to be setting. Once I entered seventh grade and middle school ball started I strived even harder to get the spot as setter, but for it being my first year I was okay with not being chosen as a setter. Once my eighth grade season…

One of the most beneficial attack strategies in volleyball is the execution of a fast paced, downwards directional spike. A spike is proven to be one of the most effective shots in volleyball due to its force and difficulty for the opposition to return the shot. Through developments in modern technology in sport, biomechanics has become one of the most influential evaluative sources for skill analysis aiding improvements in sporting performance. A video analysis of my volleyball spike will be…

In ninth grade I started to play Volleyball for my school team. At tryouts it was evident that I was a new student to the game of volleyball but my friend and I left tryouts that day with a resolve to practice every second we had free. We made a pact to work on and practice the techniques taught to us by the coaches and the experienced players. Low and behold I made the junior varsity team. The coaches told me that, with practice I would become a great volleyball player. That statement alone…

Our athlete, John, is engaging in the motor task of setting a volleyball over a net. He is not encumbered by non-regulatory environmental constraints since the sun is hidden on this cloudy day and there are no spectators to distract, cheer, or make him nervous. John’s movement must conform to the regulatory environmental constraints regarding the size, shape, and velocity of the ball. He is moving to get into position (a mobility constraint) somewhere on a smooth, yet irregular, sandy surface…