Ball games – Interactive screen of GDIP

VOLLEYBALL

William John Morgan, a physical education teacher at the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) college in Holyoke (Massachusetts, USA), is considered to be the inventor of volleyball. On 9 February 1895, in the sports hall, he hung a tennis net at a height of 197 cm, and his students, whose number on the court was not limited, began to throw a basketball over it. Morgan called the new game ‘Mintonet’. Within a year, the game was demonstrated at the conference of colleges of the Young Christian Association in Springfield, and the suggestion of Professor Alfred T. Halsted, it received a new name – ‘volleyball’.

Types:

6х6 (standard), the number of payers can vary but should be not less than 4х4

Rules:

two teams compete on a special field divided by a net. The ball should be thrown over the net to touch the opposing team’s part of the field; the competitor should also prevent the same effort. The team has three hits for returning the ball (in addition to the block contact).

The game is held on a rectangular field of 18х9 m. The net is 2,43 m in height for men and 2,24 m – for women and divides the field in the middle. The game is played with a spherical ball, 65–67 cm in diameter and 260–280 g in weight. Each of the two teams consists of 12 players maximum, and only 6 could simultaneously represent the team on the field.

The aim of the game is to hit the ball to the playing surface of the opponent’s half of the court or force him to make a mistake. After a successful draw, the serve goes to the team that won the point. The field is conditionally divided into 6 zones according to the number of players. After each transition, the right to serve passes from one team to another, and as a result of drawing a point, the players move to the next zone clockwise.

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VOLLEYBALL