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Volleyball
 One of the most
competitive, and successful
recreational sports in the world.
 A competitive sport.
 A Olympic sports in which two
teams hit the ball back and forth,
separated by a high net, each team
tries to score against one another
governed by organized rules.
History of Volleyball
William G. Morgan:
 Young Men’s
Association (YMCA)
 Physical Education Director
 February 9, 1985, in Springfield,
Massachusetts (United States).
 Created a new game
Mintonette.
Dr. Alfred Thompson Halsted:
 Change mintonette to “Volleyball”
due to of the demonstration of the
game, noticeable is the volleyball
nature of the ball back and forth.
 In France on 1947 International
Volleyball Federation (FIVB) was
recognized as the official governing
body of volleyball.
 This body formulated
implementation of all rules of the
game volleyball.
 Lausanne, Switzerland became its
headquarters.
 The first volleyball Olympics was
held at Tokyo, Japan.
The Court and Ball
 Volleyball court is 9 m × 18 m
popular, (29.5 ft × 59.1 ft), divided into equal
square halves by a net.
 The top of the net is 2.43 m above
the center of the court for men's
competition, and 2.24 m for
women's competition, varied for
veterans and junior competitions.
 FIVB regulations state that the ball
must be spherical, made of leather or
synthetic leather, have a
circumference of 65–67 cm, a weight
of 260–280 g and an inside pressure
of 0.30–0.325 kg/cm2.
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Net & Post
 Net - 1 meter long and 9.5 to 10
meter long (with 25 to 50cm on each
side of the side bands).
called  The top of the net is 2.43 m above
the center of The court for men's
competition, and 2.24 m for
women's competition
 Post - it is the stand that supports the
net that is placed at the distanced of
0.50 to 1.00m outside the side line.
They are 2.55m high and preferably
adjustable.
Scoresheet & Antenna
 Scoresheet – it is the scoring material
for where record of the match like line-
ups, points earned, serving order,
substitutions, charged time outs,
time/place/title of the match, and
signature of the officiating officials
and captain ball of both
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teams are officially recorded for
documentation and references.
 Antenna - are flexible rods, 1.80 m
long and 10mm in diameter with
red-white stripes that are on the net
to mark the out-of-bound area, made
of fiber glass or similar material.
Side Vertical Markers
 These are canvass tape 5cm wide
attached at the end of the net just
above and aligned with the side
lines.
Playing Area Terminologies
 Attack Area - is also known as
restricted area in the court that is
marked between the centerline
and restricted line wherein
spiking is executed.
 Attack Line – is a line which
limits play of spiking that lies
three meters away from the
centerline.
 Back court – is also known as
back area measures 6 meters
away from the restricted area
back to end line.
 Back Area – is also known as
back court.
 Boundary lines – are side and
tend lines that limit the playing
court into 9 x 18 meters.
 Centerline – is 5 cm-line that
divides the court into two (2)
equal areas that is located
directly under the net.
 Front Court – is also known as
attack area or restricted
area that measures 3 meters away
from the centerline.
 End Lines – are lines that limit
the length of the playing court, 9
meters in width.
 Restricted line – is a line which
prohibits the back players to
participate in spiking or
blocking that drawn 3 meters
away from the centerline.
 Service area – is an area in which
the service must be made. It is
located at the right back corner
outside of each court.
 Service lines – are lines that limit
the service area. Stepping on
these lines are prohibited.
 Side lines – are lines that limit
the width of the playing area, 18
meters in length.
The Officials of the Game
 Scorer Scorekeeper – is the official
responsible in keeping the accurate
information from the scores to all
other needed information about the
game.
 Linemen – positioned at the end
corner of the court carefully watch
out the exact landing point of the ball
whether in or out of bounds of the
court.
 Lifting – is an act of contacting the
ball when it rests momentarily in the
player’s arm and hands in a lifting
position.
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 Pass – is an act of delivering the ball
to either a teammate or to the
opponent’s court.
 Dig – is the act recovering a hard
driven ball from the opponent by the
defensive player or team.
 Double hit – is the act of touching
the ball more than once with any part
of the body.
 Dig pass – is the underhand pass
using the forearm to hit the ball.
 Holding – is an act of contacting the
ball with a momentary rest on any
part of the player’s body above the
waist other than 1/10th of a second.
It may be scooping, lifting, pushing,
carrying, or throwing.
 Service - is the act of putting the ball
in play by a player who delivers the
ball from the service area sending it
over the net into the opponent’s
court.
 Set - is the act of delivering the ball
above and near the net in preparing,
the spiker to hitting the ball.
 Set pass – refers to the ball passed in
the air for a teammate’s kill attack
that it will descend near the net
usually the second pass to the series.
 Short or low set – is a set made by
very low in height and directly in
front of the set-up man; also used for
Chinese kill.
Spiking and Blocking
 Block - is an act of attempting to
stop or intercept the ball above
the net which aims to prevent the
ball to enter into the team's court.
 Soft block - is a block whose
purpose is to deflect the ball up in
the air to set it into a teammate.
 Checked ball - is a ball deflected
from the blocker's hand usually the
last touched.
 Fielding the ball - is retrieving or
recovering the ball on volley or spike
from the opponent, frequently after it
has been blocked.
 Hard block - is an attempt on the part
of the defensive team to stop the
ball forcibly back to their opponent's
court.
 Reach over or over reach - is an act
of crossing the arms above and
across the net before an opponent
touches the ball within his court.
 Spiked ball - is a ball that is hit by
force over the net.
 Fake spike - is an act of approaching
the net and executing a spiking
motion to confuse the defensive
team.
Technical Terminologies
 Courtesy hand shake - is done at the
center of the court before the match
as an act of sportsmanship and
courtesy to the opponent.
 Coed game - is a game event jointly
participated by men and women.
 Cross court - refers to the diagonal
exchange of the ball to the
opponent's court.
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 Crossing (at the center line) - is an
act of crossing and touching the
opponent's court either by mistake or
intention.
 Dead Ball - is officially declared by
the whistle of the officiating official
when a violation in the transfer of
giving the pitch has been committed
to the opponent's court.
 Defaulted game or match - is
declared in the non-appearance or
late reporting after the 15 minutes
grace period of any team in the
match. This automatically awards the
win to the team that is present.
 Defense - is the act of the team who
is not in possession or not in service
of the ball to get the ball and not
commit error for point/score
purposes.
 Double fault - is a simultaneous error
between the two opposing teams.
 Down the line - refers to the hit or
spike or the ball falling directly on
the line at the side of the court. The
point goes to the team which strikes
the ball.
 Formation - is the arrangement or
alignment of the players either on
offense or defense.
 Foot fault - is a foul committed by a
server stepping on the side or end
lines during the service.
 Forfeited game - is a decision
proclaimed when players do not
reach the minimum number of six
players to play the game, late or non-
appearance of the team for
the game, or walk out or non-
confirmation of the players to the
decision of the referees.
 Game (or set) - is termination of a set
or inning after a team has scored 25
points or an advantage of two points
is earned to terminate the play.
 Libero - is a defensive specialist
player in a team.
 Game point - is the point gained by
the team leading to the termination
of the set or game.
 Game over - is a term used to
indicate that the match has ended
either by 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 5
sets.
 Offense - is a term used when the
team is in possession of the ball or a
serving team who makes the point.
 Play Over - is the proclamation done
when the last serving of the ball is
successfully executed without
awarding or penalizing a side-out
point giving the final point for the
final set.
 Point - is called when the serving
team successfully played the ball or
when the receiving team failed to
return the ball to the serving team.
 Red card flash - is the
disqualification called by the referee
to any member of a team preventing
the player's privilege to continue to
play.
 Rotation - is the shifting of players
in a clockwise shifting movement of
the players done in every service of
the ball.
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 Substitution - is the act of switching  Underhand - Is a serve in which the

or changing players from the playing
court.
 Three-minute rest - is a grace period
given by the referee in order to
assess injury of a player and his
physical condition to continue
playing the game.
 Weak area - is the area on the court
which is either conceded or retrieved
difficult to move in due to light or
space.
 Touch the net - is the act of
unintentional touching the net or its
rope by any part of the body or the
clothes.
 Toss coin - is the act of choosing the
right to serve or choose the side of
the court to play usually done every
beginning of the first and fifth
game/set.
 Two-minute rest - is the period
allowed to players to rest after a set
is completed.
 Yellow card flash - is the first
warning given to a player/coach/
manager by the referee reminding
them of the technical fault
committed.
player strikes the ball below the
waist instead of tossing it with an
overhand throwing motion.
 Overhand - Is a serve in which the
player tosses the ball with one hand
and strikes it in the air above their
head with other hand.
 Topspin - Is an overhand serve
where the player tosses the ball high
and hits it with a wrist span.
 Jump serve - Is an overhand serve
where the ball is first tossed high in
the air, then the players make a time
to approach and jump to make
contact with the ball.
 Pass - To receive a serve from the
opposing team, it must use a forearm
pass or bump. The legs should be
bent, both hands extended forward
and hands joined together.
 Dig - This is the ability to prevent
the ball from touching one’s court
after a spike or attack, particularly a
ball that is nearly touching the
ground.
 Set - It is usually the second contact
that a team makes with the ball. The
main goal of setting is to put the ball

Basic Skills in Volleyball in the air in such a way that it can be

driven by an attack into the
Skills: opponent’s court.

 Serve  Spike - Is also known as the attack,

 Block and is usually the third contact a

team makes with the ball. It is the act
 Dig
of scoring a point by slamming the
 Set
ball over the net into the opposing
 Pass
court effectively and aggressively.
 Spike

Serve
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 Block - It refers to the actions taken

by players standing at the net to stop
or alter an opponent's attack.