THE HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL By this year‚ the game volleyball is 117 of age! The sport originated in the United States‚ and is now just achieving the type of popularity in the U.S. that it has received on a global basis‚ where it ranks behind only soccer among participation sports.Today there are more than 46 million Americans who play volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play volleyball at least once a week. The offensive style of setting and spiking was first demonstrated in
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What is Volleyball? Volleyball is one of the world’s most popular sports and is played by more than 800 million people on the planet at least once a week. Volleyball has come a long way to be here‚ let me tell you of its journey here‚ shall we sit back and relax its going to be long ride‚ oh and watch out for the ball on your way up. Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are divided by a net. The object of the game is to send the ball over the net so that the opposing team
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HIstory of voolleyballPatrese Moore Volleyball 29 November 2011 History of Volleyball Created in 1985 by William G Morgan‚ volleyball‚ originally called mintonette‚ is a game where two teams volleyed a ball back and forth across a net until one team missed. The first competitive game of volleyball was played on July 7‚ 1896. Four years before volleyball was invented‚ basketball was invented. Being that basketball is a fast paced sport‚ not everyone could keep up with its fast paced game. Morgan
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History of Volleyball Today the sport of Volleyball is 119 years old; there are more than 46 million people in North America who play volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play volleyball at least once a week. Volleyball was created in 1895 by William G. Morgan an instructor at the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke‚ Mass. William Morgan wanted to create a game which would have less physical contact then basketball for his class of businessmen at the time. William
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The History of Volleyball In 1895‚ a man named William Morgan wanted to create a new game requiring less physical contact than basketball. He decided to blend elements of basketball‚ tennis‚ handball‚ and baseball resulting in the game of Volleyball (at the time called mintonette). Morgan took a tennis net and raised it 6 ½ feet; he required the players to hit the ball back and forth over it‚ keeping it from hitting the ground. During a demonstration‚ someone stated that the players seemed to
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The History and Game of Volleyball The game of volleyball‚ which was originally called "mintonette"‚ was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan. The game was styled as a combination of basketball‚ baseball‚ tennis‚ and handball. Over the years that followed‚ it soon became clear that rule standardizations were needed for tournament play and the USVBA was created in 1928. There are two main forms of volleyball‚ indoor and outdoor. Indoor volleyball is played indoors on a court made of wood or a synthetic
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Volleyball Mr. Grey 11:00–11:50 The Game of Volleyball Objective of the game The object of the game of Volleyball is for each team to send the ball regularly over the net to ground it on the opponent’s court‚ and to prevent the ball from being grounded on its own court. Basic Outline of play: The player on the back right position serves the ball by hitting it over the net to the opponent’s court. A team is not allowed to hit the ball three times in attempt to return the ball
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came up to us. After introducing himself‚ he asked us if we played sports‚ and at a young age‚ I expressed him that I wished to play volleyball on my school team when I was older. Even now‚ I reflect on that conversation and contemplate on how long I have had this dream to play on a volleyball team. Little did I realize my journey to playing competitive volleyball would be one with disappointments‚ obstacles‚ and a discovery of my abilities. When tryouts rolled around at the end of the seventh grade
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1.0 Abstract The purpose of this experiment is to analyze the efficiency and technique of the students over arm volleyball serve after the use of biomechanical principles has been applied. In order to complete the experiment the student performed a pre and post test which was evaluated by the program Dartfish and a serving indicator test to assess the changes and improvements of the students technique and performance of the over arm serve. It was found that by applying the three biomechanical principles
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