Why is volleyball good for people?

 

by Ines (Nov 19, 2005)

Volleyball is a game where you have to play a ball over a net. You play in teams of 6. You have got three contacts to get the ball over the net in a move. The ball mustn’t touch the ground, the wall nor the roof. You can play the ball with every part of your body, but most people use the basic techniques: bumset and set or attacking techniques: attack, service, block.

If the ball touches the ground or something different except the player, there’s one point for the other team. You have to play sets where one team has to get 25 points with 2 points distance to the other team.You have to win 3 sets to win the match. Young people play matches with 2 won sets to win the match.

I think volleyball is good for people, because volleyball is a team sport. In team sports you learn to coopaerate with others and to talk to each other to get to know what’s the best way to solve a problem. But why is volleyball so different to other team sports?

 

Volleyball is a game which you can only play if you know the basic techniques. If you can’t play this, the game doesn’t make sense and the fun is very low.

But many people don’t know what real volleyball played by professional athletes is.

I would like you to go to a real volleyball match and watch it. It will be a match with lots of moves and with many difficult rules. The rules for the game are very much.

But each team has their own rules for each player in the team, too. You have to learn rules, because each player in the team has his own position and has to react to different situations. That’s why volleyball is so different to other sports: Think about problems, learn rules and react to situations.

Another aspect is practice. If you don’t practise very often, you will be a very bad player and success won’t be there. Professional athletes train 10 hours a week with the ball. But additionally they have to go into a fitness room to become strong and they have to go jogging or go swimming for their endurance.

Another aspect for young people is, if they play in a volleyball team and train very often, they don’t have time for bad things, which young people often do, and they learn to set priorities.


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March 5, 2006

Dear Ines,
I think your article is very interesting. After reading your story, I felt very interested in this sport. You tell your readers much about volleyball, so that we know everything about this sport when we finish reading your article. Maybe I could play volleyball with you, though I never did before! That's very fine. All in all I just can say that your article is very interesting!
Yours,

Greta (Beckum, Germany)


March 5, 2006

Dear Ines,
I read your article and I liked it very much. I play volleyball too and I think you explained it very well. I like the way you talked about volleyball, the hard work to play it well and the hard rules. Reading this article, the reader will be fascinated and want to play volleyball too. So everybody will play volleyball in the future and the whole world will be a volleyball fan. So with your article you made a beginning of a Sport Revolution.
All in all I can say I liked your article very much.
Love,

Vanessa (Balve, Germany)