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Girls Playing Volleyball: Top 4 Ways YOU CAN Control the Pace of Your Volleyball Game

Girls, have you ever played in a volleyball game where the pace seemed so fast that everything just seemed to be BEYOND your control? Many times you play in a volleyball game that seems to control you when in reality there are several things that you can do to change or control the game so that YOU can speed up or slow down the pace or the rhythm of the match. Here are a few suggestions:

Play the Ball Low

Give yourself time to play the volleyball perfectly especially on a free ball or down ball by playing the ball in a low but balanced position. Don’t stand up to pass the ball by taking the ball up high when it’s at your shoulder level. Use the few more inches it takes for the volleyball to descend to get yourself in a good low position to deliver a perfect ball to the target.

Those few seconds you allow for the ball to descend to a lower point before you pass it not only gives you time to gain more control of the pass but it also buys time for your hitters to get back in transition. This move will also allow you to control the speed of your next play and thus affecting the tempo of the volleyball match… here’s how.

Speed Up or Slow Down Your Pass

Hours of practice of serve receive in the gym should get you to automatically pass the ball with a medium arc about 4 to six feet above the height of the volleyball net right to the setters hands. You can control the speed of your team’s attack by raising your pass/serve receive so that the ball has a much higher arc, reaches 8 to 10 feet in the air so you are slowing down the pace of the game. You would probably do this when the opposing team is running a faster offense and it feels like your team just isn’t establishing your own team rhythm. Slow everything down, give the setters time to think, the hitters time to see the volleyball court and your teammates time to think about concentrating on the basics in order to get back into the game.

Or you can speed up your pass by purposefully passing a ball that is right at or 1 to two feet above the height of the volleyball net with some pace on it. You should practice this with your team attack and transition drill practices…on free balls purposefully speeding up your free ball or even down ball passes …without losing precision and control in order to run a faster paced attack. You can make this a set play that can be called by the setter when she sees an easy high free or down ball coming over…she calls this play so the receivers know that she will be in position to set and the middle blockers will be ready to speed up their approach for this fast attack play.

Walk Back To Serve

This suggestion may seem a little crafty but after a long rally you may consider walking back to or taking your time getting back to the server’s position. Whenever you run back to serve you are speeding up the play of the game. Sometimes it may be necessary to give your front row hitters a breather or give your middles a chance to catch their breath so without risking a yellow card or any delay of game warnings you can always "tie your shoe" just before or as you are heading back to serve. The referee will have to wait for you to finish.

Non-Setters Should Set High

In a perfect game the setter should touch every second ball but since when does this happen? If you are the right side hitter or an off side hitter you’ll find that you will have to step in to set several times during a volleyball match.

In order to maintain control of the pace of the game make sure you get your knees, hips, shoulders and forehead lined up underneath the ball to get into a nice low position to set a nice high ball to either outside hitter.

Don’t risk increasing the pace of the game by shooting a fast set to the outside which neither you nor the hitter you are setting have practiced. Establish your own team’s rhythm and maintain control by setting high to the outside and letting your hitter do the rest.

Now go out and control the pace of your game…Remember the ball is in Your hands

April Chapple is a former USA National Womens Volleyball Team member and Volleyball Professional who created Volleyball Voices the first virtual volleyball mentoring community for girls volleyball players and volleyball coaches with stories by champion women volleyball players and coaching volleyball articles that break up volleyball skills so females learn how to play better volleyball.

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Basic Volleyball Rules

Volleyball is one of the favorite games among both girls and boys. Here are some basic volleyball rules for you to start with…

Volleyball- The Game
Volleyball is a famous indoor ball game played in a court in which 2 teams, comprising of six players each, play against each other. Volleyball is a highly recognized game and is also an Olympic sport. It has been played widely across the world.

Basic rules
The game is played in a rectangular court. One of the teams start with the serve and the basic idea is not to ground the ball during the process of the game. Whichever team gets to 25 points with a minimum point difference of two is declared the winner. There are certain prescribed rules for scoring points, rotation and violations during the game.

The Ball
The game is played with a spherical ball made of synthetic and flexible leather whose inner segment is made of a rubber material. The ball has a circumference of 65 cm approximately and weighs about 275 grams. The internal pressure of the ball is prescribed to be 0.325 kg/cm2.

The Playing Court
The court is rectangular in shape, with dimensions of 18*9 m. The court is dived into two equal halves by the net, which is set vertically above the centre line of the court. The top of the net is set to 2.43 meters for men and 2.24 meters for women. There are no limits for the lower end of the net, although most of the nets measure a length of one meter. Besides the central line, there is another line called the attack line, which is drawn 3 meters below the centre line on both sides of the net. In addition, the width of each of the line should be 5 cm.

Serving
A volley initially decides the first server and whoever wins it begins the match by serving. The server can serve the ball underhand or overhand while standing behind the end line until the serve is completed. The only limitation in a serve is such that the ball must go over the net to the other side and is allowed to graze or touch the net during the process. No player must attack a serve on the first touch and he can only bump it.

Scoring
Each proper serve will result in a point being scored by one of the two teams. Whichever team misses the ball or hits it out of the opponent’s court, have to give away a point to the opponent. Rally method of scoring is used here, by which the one who wins the opponent’s serve will earn a point and at the same time wins the next serve too. The team, which reaches the mark of 25 points and with a minimum advantage of 2 points adrift, will be declared the winner.

Players’ Rotation
Whenever a side wins a point on serve, the six players on their side should make a clockwise rotation of their positions. This continues until one of the teams reach 25 points and win that current game. The failure of the players’ rotation shall lead to a foul.

General Rules
During a volley, there can be a maximum of only three hits and no player should make two successive touches. When two players touch the ball at the same instance, it will be considered as a single hit only. They players are allowed to make a hit using any part of the body above the waist. The only goal is to hit the ball on or within the boundary line.

Certain limitations are there in the game. The ball should not be carried or thrown using the palm while making a hit. At no instance can the net be touched and the central line shouldn’t be crossed too. Players are allowed to go outside the court to pick up a hit during the process of a volley.

These are the basic rules that one should follow while playing volleyball.

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Learning and mastering these basic volleyball rules and techniques will help your volleyball matches move along better. Prematch duties.

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Olympics: American Beach Volleyball Duo Shine on Sodden Sands

Even to an Englishman who spent miserable days at Weston-super-Mare as a kid, the idea of going to the beach in this weather is preposterous, writes Andy Bull

Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh have not lost a single set, let alone a game, of beach volleyball in two entire Olympics. Double gold medalists, they are as dominant in their own event as any other athlete at these Games. And some people still can’t get over the fact that they’re wearing bikinis. Even though hundreds of women wear similarly skimpy garments each night in the athletics.

That said, a word on the bikinis. There were 12,000 people in the Chaoyang Park Beach Ground, and 11,974 of them were wearing the complimentary, if not complementary, pastel plastic capes handed out by the stewards. About half the people here were also holding umbrellas; if they weren’t, it was because they were busy waving Chinese flags or banging inflatable sticks together.

And the other 26? Well they were in swimsuits. Twenty-two of them were in red Stetson hats as well, but they’re the cheerleaders. When the rain got really heavy, the kind of stuff that ricochets up off the tarmac and soaks your knees, the cheerleaders ran screaming from the beach, a little like the Playboy bunnies when the soldiers charge the stage in Apocalypse Now.

It wasn’t just raining, it was lashing it down and had been for hours. Frankly, even to an Englishman who spent some miserable days at Weston-Super-Mare as a kid, the idea of going to the beach in this weather is preposterous. Outside the upper rim of the Chaoyang bowl, everything is invisible, lost in a thick soup of grey rain clouds.

And in the middle of it all were the four athletes, all barefoot, sinking ankle deep in the sodden sand. You’d struggle to play a game of rugby in this downpour, but beach volleyballers must be made of sterner stuff. "We play in all conditions," May-Treanor said afterwards, before pausing as a grin spread across her face, "it’s just another reason why we wear bathing suits." Besides which, there was the natural incentive that this was USA v China with a gold medal at stake.

Unlike the equivalent clashes in the basketball or water polo, this match didn’t have much bite. This wasn’t China versus the USA, it was China imitating the American way. The capacity crowd were marshaled into a series of Mexican waves by a break-dancing MC from California, the cheerleaders – half American, half Chinese – wore their cowboy hats and jiggled to Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) and It’s Raining Men. (No, no it’s not, it’s just raining.) At 11am, a lot of the Chinese were knocking back plastic cups of beer and guzzling popcorn and hotdogs on sticks. In the absence of any indigenous beach culture, the Chinese had brought some in wholesale from California.

Which, of course, is where May-Treanor and Walsh are from. More telling, though the Chinese won both the bronze and silver medals in this event, the pair playing May-Treanor and Walsh, Tian Jia and Wang Jie, made it abundantly clear both before and afterwards that they never felt they had a chance of winning this match, even though the head-to-head record between the pairs is 5-2 in favor of the US. Such is the ability and aura of the US pair that they have that champions’ ability to defeat an opponent before the game has even started. It was a case, perhaps, of having too much respect. "They are too strong, too competitive," said Tian, "so we knew that today we could just relax." Normally Tian plays the game the way her Chinese interpreter pronounces it, "bitch volleyball", but in the final she was strangely subdued, seemingly because she didn’t much reckon her chances of winning. "They have very strong skills, they are just a lot better than us."

Tian and her partner, Wang, had more power than their opponents, but considerably less skill and guile. Whereas the Chinese were able to keep themselves in the game through their vicious spiking and serving, May-Treanor and Walsh won their points through a series of tricks and feints at the net, dummy-moves and clever floated hits into the gaps. The score reached 17-17 in both sets, but on each occasion the Americans pulled away, sensing the crucial moment, reaching and winning match-point before the Chinese could rally themselves.

The US pair, after they’d finished whooping and hollering, were graciously keen to emphasize their amazement at the improvement in the Chinese team. Tian, playing, with a different partner, came ninth at Athens in 2004, China’s best-ever finish in the sport, though they do have an excellent record in the indoor version. As in so many events – and, it’s worth pointing out that Britain are currently doing so with their handball team – China have spent eight years manufacturing teams for the event. That they won both women’s bronze and silver is a remarkable vindication of their efforts. "I am from Xinjiang province, and we don’t have volleyball there," said the 23 year-old Wang, "I didn’t choose beach volleyball, it chose me."

It is a markedly different route to success from that taken by the Americans. May-Treanor, the daughter of Butch May who played for the US indoor team at the 1968 Games, and Walsh grew up with the game. They even played against each other in high school. They have a chemistry and understanding the Chinese couldn’t possibly match. As with the atmosphere at Chaoyang itself, though, it is clear who the Chinese are seeking to emulate, and in four more years the very least they will be expecting to do is take a set off the US.

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She has played in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games. May-Treanor and her partner, Kerri Walsh, have won their last sixty-nine international matches. They won the Olympic beach volleyball tournament in 2008 and became the first team.

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