How To Play Volleyball
Volleyball is a popular sport and fun to play as long as you know how to play. Volleyball is familiar to most people, and even those that don’t consider themselves super athletic still enjoy a game of volleyball. Maybe it feels friendlier because your teammates are in close proximity and your opponents are not usually running after you or trying to hit you.
Whatever the reasons for its popularity, the game of volleyball requires skills and physical conditioning if you want to be a good player. Most importantly, you have to learn how to play volleyball before you can win a game of volleyball. And the best way to learn how to play volleyball is with a few simple guidelines. Here are the basics:
Volleyball is a game played by two teams made up of six active players on each side. The game is played on a volleyball court, which is divided into two equal halves by a net. Each team stands on either side of the net during the game. Besides the court and the net, the only equipment needed is a volleyball.
The object of the game of volleyball is to score points while at the same time preventing your opponent from scoring. A team scores points by hitting the volleyball over top of the net from one side of the court to the other. A team earns points by attempting to ground the ball on the other side of the court and stopping the opposing team from successfully returning the ball to the serving team.
A game of volleyball begins with the serve, or service. You serve the volleyball by hitting it with either your arm or hand, and sending it over the net to the opposing team, where they attempt to return the ball back to the serving side if the court.
When the teams continue hitting the ball back and forth over the net, it is called a rally. Any player can hit the ball during a rally, using shots like a set shot or spike. The ball can only be touched once by any one player, and hitting the ball two times in a row causes a fault. It is legal to strike the ball with any part of your body, although generally hits are made with the hands and arms.
During game play, each side can contact the ball up to three times before hitting it over the net, and a rally ends when one of the teams grounds the ball on their opponent’s side of the court or if the receiving team commits a fault. This is also how points are earned.
Points are gained by the serving team whenever they win the rally. If the receiving team wins the rally, they score a point and they also get the serve. When this happens, the players on the receiving team rotate clockwise one position and then serve, and the whole thing begins again.
The game ends when the winning team scores 25 points.