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Hi all - More Volleyball news from the web.

Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@ndirect.co.uk

Hi, my name is Daliana I live in south East London & I am looking for a club to play volleyball I am not an excellent player but want to take it up 
seriously I have been looking everywhere for a club to join do you have any ideas of where I can go or who I can contact??

I would be grateful if you let me know of anything you know

Thanks
Daliana Ruiz littledali@hotmail.com

Hi Dave: my name is Jacky and is 15 yrs old and I am 179cm tall and play for volleyball for 3 yrs and I am playing in Blackpool volleyball clubs, but the problem was I only train on Wednesday which is too less for me and I want to find some clubs that are near my area!!!

Thx
Jacky Cheong jackycheong85@hotmail.com

Hello UK. We´re about to move to the southcoast of England (2001-08-23). Our purpose is to work and hopefully play volleyball somewhere. ?

We are: Katrin Wåhlén 26 years of age, outside hitter in Karlstads Volleyball club SWE. Seven years experience. SWE division 2. 
Torbjörn Wrange 25 years of age, allround player whith 11 years experience. SWE division 1.

Contact: wrange@passagen.se

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Referees Course Grade 4

1st & 2nd Sept 2001 Archway Sports Centre, Stroud.

Tania Chomicz TCHOMICZ@aol.com

The High Corner pub (a short crawl away) does B&B. The main entertainment will be Volleyball- playing is definitely NOT essential- but boulles, cricket, rounders etc. will all be on offer. The Saturday evening will be finished off with a BBQ/party. All current and ex-members of Solent Volleyball Club are welcome, as are those with any connection to the club. If you are interested, please send your name and details to John Taylor coach@solentvb.org.uk 

Helen Snaith h.snaith@soc.soton.ac.uk

1st September, White Horse 4's @ Westbury Wiltshire - Now at Chapmanslade Village Hall

Steve & Jackie Dowler stevie@mcstevie.fsnet.co.uk

I am writing to let you know about the Havant Pumas 14th Volleyball Tournament on 9th September 2001 on Southsea common.
I would be very grateful if you would advertise this in your most excellent news letter. 

Thank you very much
Tim Nicholson volleyball@freenetname.co.uk

If you are organising an events or are running a training camp, make sure your event is well publicised, advertise your event in the Volleyball Newsletter. If your forthcoming event was not listed in our search statistics, you may be lacking Brand Awareness?

I found this VB game for the PalmPilot. I thought others might be interested in it. It looks good on my new M505 with the color screen. I have not tried it on a B&W screen yet. It requires Palm OS 3.0 and my old PalmPilot Professional is just version 2.0. I have played a few games on the demo and am going to purchase it. http://www.palmgear.com/software/

Jerry Strub deletecurlyofstc@yahoo.com

First volleyball game for the Palm OS ever released! Game play includes realistic action, incredible graphics, and computer players with an intelligent volleyball algorithm! Choose one of three skill levels: Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert. While you can probably beat Beginner, you will meet very strong resistance at the Expert level. You can play against a computer or you can watch two computers playing against each other with your choice of either the contemporary or classic volleyball rules!

http://www.palmgear.com/software/

The CEV process of drawing lots, for the various European Cups and Championships that are currently taking place.

2001 Under 23 European Beach Volleyball Championships :

Venue: Esposende, Portugal Date: 24th - 26th August 2001 

I am emailing to inform you about the 9th UK & Ireland Corporate Games which is taking place in Norwich from the 28th - 30th June, 2002. The Corporate Games is a multi-sport event which is open to all organisations to enter whether you represent your work place, sports club or society. The UK & Ireland Corporate Games in Norwich is expected to attract 6,000 competitors across 300 organisations. 

Volleyball which includes a Women's Open, and Men's Open and a Mixed Open is one of the 20 sports on the programme which also includes Badminton, Basketball, Cricket 8's, Dragon Boat Racing, Golf, Hockey, Karting, Match Fishing, Mountain Biking, Netball, Rugby 7's, Running, Soccer 6's, Squash, Table Tennis, Tennis, Touch, Tenpin Bowling and Triathlon.

I would be most grateful if you would provide a link from your website to our UK & Ireland Corporate Games, 2002 web page in order for Volleyball enthusiasts to find out more about the Games and how they can become involved in such an exciting event. The web page address is http://www.corporate-games.com/ukicg_2002/ukicg_2002.html I would also be grateful if you would include the Corporate Games in any event listings you are currently producing and spread the word so that enthusiasts get the chance to be part of the Corporate Games.

For more information on the UK & Ireland Corporate Games and other Corporate Games within the Games community please call our participation department on 01733 380888 or email us at info@corporate-games.com

Thank-you very much,
Yours sincerely,

Claire Waddell
Sports Manager claire@corporate-games.com

These dates are tentative and in no way confirmed. CEV is looking forward to have at least three tournaments plus the European Championships.  CEV and organisers are still planning and all information is subject to change.

Senior European Championships : 29th August - 1st September 2002 To be determined 100.000,- EUR 

Senior Tournaments : 9th - 12th May 2002 To be determined 50.000,- EUR 
6th - 9th June 2002 To be determined 50.000,- EUR 
11th - 14th July 2002 To be determined 50.000,- EUR 
15th - 18th August 2002 To be determined 50.000,- EUR 

There are many overseas sites selling Volleyball Equipment, before you diving in and purchase this years stock of Volleyball Balls or you purchase that new club net system. Check out the UK customs site www.hmce.gov.uk 

Summary

If the value of goods including P&P is less than £18 you won't be charged duty or VAT.
If you order is more than £18 you'll get hit with a 3.5% import duty and 17.5% VAT.

If goods are ordered on line and posted into the UK from within the EU, there is no custom duties but you will have to pay VAT at the rate of the member state where it was posted

The courier service used will also charge you an administration fee (about £10) for sorting out your import duty and VAT payment, unless you have already pre-arranged that, all these fees are payable on delivery (COD).

You should have a choice of delivery, by air mail or sea/land, in the USA the term shipping costs does not mean by ship.

Tournament Formats

In the last newsletter I asked if anyone had any interesting tournament formats: As well as changing the way tournament structure you can also change the scoring system, the number of players on court, the size of the court or just change the playing surface, see below for some examples...

Handicap Tournament

The following is a handicap format that worked with Side Out scoring and helped the weaker team by 25%. I.E. In 25% of matches the obvious weaker team won.

All matches will be played to a maximum length of one set, i.e. the first to 15 points and by 2 clear points. All matches will also be played within a 20 minute time period. / Time-outs will not be allowed during any match. / All substitutions must be like for like, i.e. male for male, female for female or junior for junior. Substitutions will not be allowed during the last five minutes of the match. 

For each starting line up, the team will be awarded the following handicap points by the referee and scorer.
For each Lady and junior (Under 15) player, no handicap points.
For each Male (Over 15) player on court, - 3 points will be added to the teams score. 

e.g.
If there are two males on court for team A, that team will start from a score of - 6.
If there are four males on court for team B, that team will start from a score of -12.

The games are fun to watch because the rallies are so fast and there's a lot of trash talking across the net. The rules are a little different so I'll explain them.

There are 9 players on the court, 5 at the net and 4 backrow. There are no rotations of players. The backrow players are split into two catergories middle and back. There's one backrow player who stands right in the middleof the court, the middle-middle position, AKA suicide if his front row can't block. The other 3 back row guys are spread out along the back like in 6 man.

Like 6 man, the front row consists of a power hitter, a quick hitter and an off-wing hitter. Now depending on the offensive pattern, there are 2 patterns to the offense: conventional and off-set, you can have either 3 hitters in front of the setter and 1 behind him or you can have 2 hitters to either side.

With conventional, the setter stands in the middle of the net and he's flanked by two quick (or Fai, which means fast in Chinese), or Hook hitters and the wings (power and off). The quick hitters actually grab the ball and throw or hook it down (hence the name hook). But, a lot of the quick hitters have 6 man experience so they hit the 1's instead. The wings also come in for T's and other plays along with the usual array of sets.

With off-set, the setter stands in the normal 6 man position and he has the quick, then a T, the power, and behind him the off. This is by far the most popular offensive line-up.Now, the rules. What 6 man rules call a carry is allowed in 9 man, at least to a certain degree. The player can't hold the ball for a second and then release, but... there's a lot of leniency. Passes are usually made with overhead sets or scooped up with open hands or "chai"-ed or bumped. Chai-ing is a form of passing, a player passes the ball with 2 hands around waist level and the hands forms a sort of cradle for the ball. Old-time setters don't set the ball, they "chai" it. It's pretty deceptive because they usually have their backs to the net and they can then chai it to any hitter, especially the fasts. Friggin' tough to read block when you can't see the ball.

However, the most funkiest rule in 9 man is the play off net. If you play a ball into the net, it negates the previous hit so you can play the ball again. Example, say it's a bad pass with a low trajectory towardsthe net. The setter can bump set it OR he can scoop the ball into the net, the ball rebounds off the net and then the setter sets it perfectly. Pretty cool idea, but when you've been playing 6 man and then 9 man one can get confused.

Like 6 man, a team only gets 3 hits to send it over. But, if your blockers touch the ball it's considered a hit. Any combination of the backrow players can serve, no jumpers however. If the ball touches anyone's head, the play is dead. There are probably some rules I'm forgetting, but this is the gist of the game.

The game can get pretty fast because of the tendency for the quick hits. Not to mention the digs.

The court is 20 meters wide by 50 meters long, divided in half by a 10cm wide webbing strip of plastic, like a vball net top cable without the net. Net height was maybe two meters less (1.6 and 1.8m) for younger children.... Younger kids also can have four contacts per side, they standard is three. There are five players per side. There is also a three meter line at the net. Never did figure out what that was for but I think you had to take off from behind it to fist the ball over. The ball is like a soccer ball, may be a size #4, or maybe a regulation sizd #5.

Basically you hit everything with a fist everything over the net, in a backrow spiker type attack. The other two contacts are like one armed dug or fist ups. The KEY thing is YOU GET ONE BOUNCE per contact... Yes, it is like a huge game of "Newcomb" the one bounce game some PhysEd teachers do in elementary school to intro volleyball... They play two 10 minute halves, stop time.

The World Championships had Germany vs. Austria and about 7,000 spectators in the stands. Participating teams included Brazil, Italy andabout 5 others. The game was created in 1968. Supposedly the Romansplayed a version of this a thousand plus years ago...

The reduction is nearly general for all participating teams with an exception for Japan. The data present corrected kill percentage this is the to zero error adjusted kill percentage. 

You can see the full report on the webs site Newsletter Reports page.

Leo Van Hal leovh@wanadoo.fr

Asselin promised he will not expand the court, install lights or lengthen the current four-days-a-week schedule. If he breaks the promise, he knows he would have to return for a permit after all, he said. We’re going home and forget this whole thing happened, Asselin said. The system did work, and we all benefited by it.

By Daniel Hartill

We have been running this question for the last two weeks, so far 79% have said they would attend, however only 2% of readers have voted. 

[If there was a grandstand for 2,000 spectators, there would be 1,960 empty seats - just a thought.]

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