Volleyball, in reality, has no spirit. It is only a game, and as such has potentialities either for good or evil, depending in large degree upon the quality of the leadership involved. However, there is a distinctive spirit that characterizes the majority of the men who play volleyball.
The spirit of fun and good fellowship
First of all, the men who play this great game have fun playing it. The desire to win is not permitted to assume a position of such vast importance in the minds of the players that fun is replaced by grimness, relaxation by tension, and cordial friendships by bitter enmities. The players on opposing teams fraternize both before and after their matches. This type of cordial relationship is conspicuously absent in much of our intercollegiate and interscholastic athletics, particularly football.
How many players on opposing college football teams ever meet each other except on the “field of battle”? We talk glibly of the social values in college sports, but for two football teams to sit down and eat their postgame meal together would necessitate a major revolution in the cerebral processes of present-day leaders in college football. Yet this spirit of good fellowship is the rule rather than the exception in volleyball.
The spirit of amateurism
Volleyball is one of the few remaining amateur sports in America. There is no dollar sign suspended from the necks of volleyball players. They play for the sheer fun of playing – and this is the spirit of amateurism. Officials donate their services in many tournaments. This, too, is the spirit of amateurism elevated almost to a fantastic height.
The spirit of sportsmanship
The practice of spectators’ booing officials or players is the rule in many sports, but it is the exception at a volleyball tournament. Seldom have I seen examples of bad conduct on the part of players in a tournament, and, on those occasions, the players encountered strong disapproval from all the others present. Volleyball is played by gentlemen in a gentlemanly manner. There is no muckerism in volleyball, but unfortunately the same cannot be said of many other sports.
The spirit of moral conduct
This, I believe, is perhaps the outstanding characteristic of volleyball today. When a man’s finger barely touches the net, no official can possibly detect the foul. The player is faced with the necessity of making a moral choice between two diametrically opposed courses of action. Shall he conceal the foul or shall he admit it?
This is a stern test of moral fiber, for admission of the foul may lose a national championship. But so high is the level of human conduct in this sport that the hand goes up immediately, even though there is no rule requiring him to do so.
One of the traditions of the game, developing as it did in the Holyoke, Massachusetts, YMCA in 1895, is that of personal responsibility and integrity in calling fouls – even when the referee, umpire, or linesmen fail to see violations. From this standpoint it is truly a players’ sport and incidents in the topflight national competitions are on record where players have called their own fouls, missed by the officials, at times when it meant the difference between winning or losing a game and the match.*
This type of conduct is Obedience to the Unenforceable, obedience to a moral code, a code of honor, a code of gentlemen. It is obedience to one’s conscience. It is self-discipline of the highest order. It is a kind of behavior so desperately needed in America today, for the true greatness of a nation is measured in large degree by the length and breadth of this area of human conduct in which men obey the unenforceable.
All this is “the spirit of volleyball,” a spirit of which we who have had some small part in its development may well be proud.
* Harold T. Friermood, “Volleyball Goes Modern,” Journal of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation, May, 1953, p. 10.
By: Jimmy Cox
Archive for September, 2009
The Rules in a Volleyball Game
September 29th, 2009The formation of force dominates the majority of the athletes ‘ form physical and programmes of treatment during out of the year. In particular, the players of volley ball are well-known to have one of the highest levels of the attachment with formation of force. These athletes of elite carry out that the advantages of suitable a periodized the training scheme of force.
Volley ball pushes players at the end. One expects that each athlete excels in the explosive movements, vertical change, to strike intense power and services. The rotation of position in volley ball means the unquestionable need complete players. To be a large adjuster is enormous more, but prosperous volley ball with far from the universal spectacular athletes. The formation of force is a component solid mass with any athlete of elite.
The formation of force for volley ball requires the knowledge of the periodization. Periodization means to change one or more variables in your training scheme of force on a regular and coherent basis. These variables can include the exercise, the frequency of lifting, the intensity of lifting, or the method of lifting.
The players of volley ball, as well as the majority of the other athletes, work on an annual program of periodization. They downwards break their year in 4 segments or distinct cycles. Means of each of new segment they should change their training scheme of force into match the goals of these cycle .
The four segments can be broken up into died season, pre-season, in-season, and after the season. Each season has single goals and a single training scheme of force. The athletes grant the hour to rest, force of construction and the specific functions of construction of sport before the beginning of the official play season.
The goal of the off-season is to establish the power and the force. The dead season uses exercises of power and weights higher to increase the size and the force of muscle. Typically, the training scheme of force is most intense during the dead season. The athletes invest much time at their basic base of physical form.
The pre-season concentrates on real functions of detail of sport. The squatting, to jump, take a step side, to strike and nail are all the common movements of volley ball. The routine of formation of force of volley ball of pre-season is less intense than the dead season. The goal is to maintain these force and power, but to improve movements of detail of sport. The major part of the routine is devoted to false matches of volleyball and exercises.
The in-season concentrates purely on maintaining with far and the goals of the pre-season . the established power out-season and the pre-season put this power to employ. The athletes appreciate the fruits of their work during the in-season. The transient which flies after the head and the exercises of opponent in the floor is a proof that the formation of force for volley ball functions.
The goals of post-season’s are about relieving and repair. It is one moment of the year which includes training sessions of low intensity. The goal is to make it possible the body to cure afterwards exhausting months of the training sessions of high intensity. These a few weeks of the formation of force of rest and low intensity and cardio- bring the whole year of formation to an end. After the season an athlete skilful and cured delivers to begin the building out-season of force and power still.
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Independently of the season, some things remain constant. The players of volley ball should always carry out one or more exercises for each group of muscle. Each exercise should be carried out by full a ROMANIAN (range with movement), and each routine of formation of force should direct towards movements of detail of sport.
The formation of force for players of volley ball is a component essence and organics of their physical form and programs treatment. The formation of force provides the edge which all the athletes need to succeed. Periodization is necessary in all the training schemes of force. Volley ball and other sports taught us the importance of a suitable routine of physical form based on specific goals.
By: Janice Sherwood
