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The following Newsletter has been forwarded to you, from the Volleyball Newsletter  E-Mail list. The UK's leading on line Volleyball News service, providing up to date volleyball information, direct to newsletter members throughout the UK and Ireland. Articles are collected from a variety of sources and credited appropriately. The Volleyball Newsletter uses advertising sponsorship to support our free and non-profit making service to newsletter members. To advertise your volleyball events or products, direct to players, club and league secretaries throughout the UK & Ireland, then please see our web site for details or contact Dave at  Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Hi all - More Volleyball news from the web.

Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

WANTED - Voluntary women's team coach or player/coach for new National League / District League team. Have you ever wanted the opportunity to coach a Team of athletes willing to become a success in the National League. The Club also has a women's Junior National League Team who will mature into very competent athletes over the coming years.

Submit your interest or resume to Scott Collins, Club Chairperson, Glasgow METS, 35 Ashcroft Drive, Croftfoot, Glasgow, G44 5QB. In addition our web site address has been changed to http://www.glasgowmetsvc.btinternet.co.uk

Cheers
Peter Campbell CampbellP@halcrow.com
Head Coach

I am a second year student, studying at U.W.I.C on the sports coaching degree. Throughout the year I have played for the Women's volleyball team at BUSA level. My interest in the game of volleyball has led me to decide that I would like to base my dissertation on notational analysis and volleyball. I am e-mailing you in hope that perhaps yourself or any other coaches have any interest in this field and would like to contribute to my research ideas or have any relevant information, as little research has been carried out and literature is scarce. Some of the ideas I have in mind are comparing playing patterns between elite and non-elite teams, or University teams.

I would appreciate it gratefully if you could e-mail me back with a response - Katgirl@postmaster.co.uk 

Thanking you for your time, 
Katherine Griffiths katgirl@postmaster.co.uk

Weymouth Info required

Hello Dave, I wondered if anyone could sent me any information about the Weymouth beach tournament. I play for tendring and there is a couple of teams we want to enter in the challenge tournament, if possible could you send it asap.

thank
Tom Dean" tomdean24@hotmail.com

Dave, In the next edition, could you please put this note in. I am taking a school trip to the Grasse of France, in the summer. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any contacts for matches for my girl's under 14 teams. Is there anybody who has any contact information.

Cheers
Martyn Hewitt martyn_hewitt@hotmail.com

What is the name of a volleyball club that I can play for in Birmingham. My name is Shaw and I live in Aston.

Shaw Chamisa shawchamisa@hotmail.com

"THE CHAMPAGNE TOURNAMENT"

The Ashcombe Tournament is on Sunday 30th June 2002 This outdoor Tournament is held at The Big Field, Brockham, Surrey at Dorking R.F.C.'s home ground. The tournament is for men, women, mixed and junior teams of all standards. 

The Tournament annually attracts over 100 teams of all levels and is played on out door grass courts, matches begin at 10 am and play finishes at about 6.30 pm. Entry Fee is 28 pounds, Under 16 & 19 only 8 pounds. All finalists win medals or engraved shot glasses. 
Winning teams win a BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE.

FACILITIES

Licensed Bar, hot and cold food and drinks, Bar-B-Q, changing rooms and showers

SPORTSET - VOLLEYBALL SUPPLIERS.

SATURDAY NIGHT - DISCO

Camping overnight on site.

DIVISIONS Teams of 6 - Men, Women, Mixed & U16 & U19. Mixed teams must have 3 women on court. Div 1 - Teams include NVL standard players. Div 2 - Regional and Div 1 County standard players. Div 3 - Lower County and Local League standard players. Div 4 - Social and Novice standard players. Under 16 & 19 - Age as September 1st 2001. Closing date is 10th June. Early application advised. There will be 10 teams in each division. 2 pools of 5 to ensure every team has at least 4 matches. All matches best of 2 Sets.

Tournament entry forms are available for download from the Ashcombe Volleyball Club website http://ashcombevc.tripod.com

Freda Bussey at sport.bussey@btinternet.com

Entry Forms:
Entry Forms are now available on our web site www.volleyballnewsletter.com/dawlish.htm plus you can pay on-line via our Nochex account. For more info please contact Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com  or visit our web site at www.volleyballnewsletter.com/dawlish.htm for the latest info.

Tournament Notes:
As well as being a Ladies Tournament, the Dawlish Ladies Challenge is also a participation event and our aims is to help develop and encourage new Ladies volleyball teams within the SW area, see our web site for more info.

 Click here for Tournament Entry Forms

Hello volleyballfriends, On Ascension Day, May 9, 2002, VC Kessel volleyball organise its traditional International Volleyball Tournament. Already for the 21st time the club welcomes a lot of volleyballplayers from the the south of the Netherlands and from all other parts of Holland and even outside that. 

The tournament will be played at the playing fields of football club VV Kessel. On the grass courts traditional 6 against 6 as well as 3 against 3 beachvolleyball can be played. Gents, Ladies and mix-teams, just make your choice and have a great day in the south of the Netherlands.

More information can be obtained at www.vckessel.nl (unfortunately only in Dutch) or by sending an email to toernooi@vckessel.nl
Subscription is possible until May 6 and is easy by filling up the online subscription form.

Hope to welcome you in Kessel on Ascension Day !!!

VC Kessel Hemelvaartstoernooi toernooi@vckessel.nl

All, Please note a Grade 4 referee course will take place in Exeter on the 14th/15th September. Can this please be noted and advertised with Ros Sutherland  ROSSUTH@aol.com as the contact. The relevant forms will be sent as soon as they are received back.

Stewart Dunne stewart@dunne6.freeserve.co.uk

Hi Dave, Could you please promote our level 1 course in your next newsletter. EVA Level 1 Course 25th May & 1st June 2002 venue George Ward School Melksham. Closing date 27th April .Contact Des James 01373-826926 e-mail desjames@blueyonder.co.uk

Thanks
Des James desjames@blueyonder.co.uk

1st "hereford" / 2nd "health" / 3rd "rotations" / 4th "ladies tournaments" / 5th "rules of volleyball".

If you are organising an events or are running a coaching or refereeing course, make sure your event is well publicised. If your forthcoming event was not listed in our search statistics, you may be lacking Brand Awareness?

ROCBALL Rocball is a non-contact team net game derivative of volleyball and a Meso-American sport once played by the athletes of the Aztec civilization of what is now the country of Mexico.  Rocball is played on a rectangular court bisected by an overhead net with goals located behind each end of the court. Rocball has been in existence since 1979.  It is the first team net sport to implement offensive and defensive scoring, multiple point plays, plays in which a team can lose point, and the first team net sport to include the combination of kicking and hitting play action.

In Rocball, the offensive team has the scoring advantage because of service and court points. However, either team has the opportunity to score from one to three points during any one play; under certain conditions, the defensive team can score one point plays, the server can score different types of two point plays, the goalies of either team can score two points, any player from either team can score a three point goal, and there are different way to win a set of play.  To win a Rocball game, the team which scored the most points after the completion of the first four sets of play must:  (1) Have a three point advantage over their opponents.  (2) Win the fourth set of play.

If either team fails to accomplish this, the game will go into overtime. In overtime, the total amount of points scored by each team becomes irrelevant: The winners of a Rocball game in overtime will be determined by whichever team wins it's fourth set of play first: In overtime, Rocball sets are completed at eight points or whenever either team scores a goal. 

The Court System:

In Rocball, the goalie's box creates a one-on-one situation between the server and the opposing team's goalies on the serve. On the serve, the goalie may leave the goalie's box to hit a ball but no other player may enter the goalie's box on the serve.  After the first hit on a served ball, whether by the goalie or another player, any player may occupy and defend the goalie's box and team's goal: The goals used in Rocball should be between six and seven foot high by twelve feet wide.

Each team must have their players in their proper rotational positions to the serve. The receiving team's front court players must be in the goalie's box on the serve. The front court players of the receiving team can play off the serve as long as they start with both feet inside the ten foot line. After the served ball has been hit by a player on the receiving team, players, with the exception of the goalie, are free to adjust their positions to any place on their court. The receiving team's goalie must play within the backcourt area. 

The service team's front line players are not restricted within the ten foot line and their goalie doesn't have stand in the goalie's box on the serve. But, service team players must be in their proper rotational positions on the serve. But, service team players must be in their proper rotational positions on the serve. None of the front line players can play along side or behind backcourt players. After a player on the receiving team makes the first hit on a served ball, the service team players, with the exception of the goalie, are free to adjust their positions to any place on their court. The service team's goalie is restricted to the backcourt area. 

Where We Play Rocball ! 

Rocball tournaments have been an annual event on Saipan, Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands (C.N.M.I.) U.S.A. since 1983. Rocball tournaments, which last between four to six months a year, are made up from as many as twenty teams representing high school, college, and community athletes.  In April of 1996, Rocball celebrated it's tenth Anniversary International Cup game with a high school out of Yokohama, Japan. In May of 1996 Rocball was introduced to the representatives of sports associations and the Asia Pacific and Oceania Sports Assembly in Tokyo, Japan as the indigenous sports of the CNMI.

Rocball has been covered by the media in the local, regional, and international newspapers and cable TV stations. Rocball news releases appear in the CNMI's local newspapers, the Pacific Daily News serving Guam, the CNMI, and Micronesia, and the Japan Times, out of Tokyo Japan. Rocball play action has been and is viewed on the CNMI's and Guam's cable TV stations. In 1993 and 1994, Ralph Wenge abd Octavia Nasr of CNN's world report introduced Rocball to over two hundred and ten countries and territories around the world. 

Rocball has been a registered copyrighted since 1981. However, Rocball handbooks have been mailed out to various international associations as early as 1980. The International Olympic committee, International volleyball federation, Asia volleyball Confederation, general association of International Sports Federation, United States Olympic Committee, United States Volleyball Association, and the intellectual property organization are some of the many sports and other associations in the receipt of Rocball rules of play. In addition to these, private businesses in the sports, games, and entertainment world have been sent information on Rocball. And, more than ninety colleges and universities in over forty countries on every continent around the world have received Rocball handbooks.

Jungle Rules: 

Each team has three hits to get the ball out of their court area after the serve has been made. There are no restrictions on how the ball can be hit and kicking the ball up and/or over the net is a legitimate hit. Players cannot hit the ball twice consecutively, may not hold the ball, throw the ball, or carry the ball. Players may reach over the net when playing on the ball, they can cross under the net as long as they don't interfere with their opponent's movements and if a player's head goes under the net, it is a foul. Players, with the exception of the goalie, are allowed to come from the backcourt to spike, block, or set. 

Time-outs: Time-outs can only be called when a team has the service. Teams are allowed two time-out per set. Game officials can call time-outs for the benefit of the game. 

Substitutions: A team can substituted players only when they have the serve. In case of injuries, substitutions can be made but the injured player cannot return to the game. 

Teams: Five members to a team with a two person front court and a three person backcourt playing pattern. 

To find out more about this game and the Scoring System:  http://www.saipan.com/business/rocball/index.htm or contact: James W. Feger  World Organized Rocball  P.O. Box 1481  Chalan Kanoa, Saipan MP 96950, U.S.A.  rocball@saipan.com

2001 World Rocball Champions DX (front row left to right) Ernest Rangamar, Myron Laniyo, Kelvin Seman. (back row left to right) Marino Piungiulug, Lysander Taisakan, Melvin Seman.

Freda Bussey sport.bussey@btinternet.com

Never be afraid to measure the court!  

There is the (apocryphal?) story of when a Chinese team came to play in London in a televised event. They turned up for training and complained that the court (laid Taraflex) was not laid square. (It was 18m x 9m but the corners were not exact right angles). Sure enough someone measured and the diagonals were not the same - never heard what they did about it! He must have had some eyesight!

Ken Edwards ken@edwardskg.freeserve.co.uk

Regarding the court dimensions that were mentioned in your previous newsletter, I think that the Italian team Reggio Calabria were excluded from
the European Champions League this year because the court was a few centimetres short. The CEV is a bit silent about the exact reasons, but this is what is being told. So you see it can happen at all levels !

Another referee story: the ref called an attack touched by the block. The blocker went up to the referee, stuck his middle finger in the air, waited a
second, and then said with a big smile: "yes sir, I touched the ball with this finger". 

Jan Jan.Bens@electrabel.com

If you have anymore on court stories, then send them in to us at: Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Tournament Software

Crystal Sports ware released the TTS02 program. It has many new features and a demo on the web site. http://www.crystalsport.com

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This CD-ROM has been compiled to provide general  information on how to build a beach volleyball court. It is intended as an introduction to the sport for anyone thinking of building a court e.g. local councils, Universities, Volleyball Clubs, Schools etc about the needs and the general requirements of the sport. Originally put together to highlight to my own city council, that it's proposed undersized sand pit and two wooden posts, would not qualify as a beach volleyball court. It has already been forwarded to other court building projects in the area.

Contents: 
Letter of Introduction / The Croyde Beach volleyball court / How not to build a beach volleyball court.
Three articles on court construction: Building a beach court / How to build your own sand court / Sand volleyball court guidelines.
The local Beach Volleyball scene: The Exmouth Beach Tournament / Local players on the Grand Prix. 
Appendix and contacts: Cost / Documentation / Contacts / Beach Court Equipment Suppliers.

All documents are in MS Word or PowerPoint and hence can be easily amended and adjusted for your own application or publication.

Photos: (all photos are 1MB jpg files)
64 photos of the Croyde Beach Court. (Example of a good court).
18 Photos of the Exeter Double Locks court (Example of how not to build a court).
65 Photos of the Exmouth Beach Tournament (Example of the local beach volleyball scene).

[All photos are copyright to myself and are provided free of charge for the promotion of beach volleyball in the UK and Ireland.]

To purchase a copy of the CD-ROM (£10 pounds each) , please contact Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Feed Back:

Dear Dave, Great folio of beach info, I will definitely send it to Exmouth Community College.
I think the reference to beach soccer was interesting. If a beach court doubles up in this way it could be a route to more courts.
Ros ROSSUTH@aol.com

When the ref blows for the end of the hitting warm up, to go into serve warm up, can you continue to hit back court????

Paddy Murphy padymurphy@aol.com

FIVB rules: If the captains agree (and if the teams did not have another court with net available prior to the hitting warm up), both teams together may use the net for 10 minutes in (nearly) any sportsmanlike way.

There is no rule whether and how long you train hitting, serving, defence or whatever. Often there is a common practice that you hit for about 5 minutes over position IV, for about 4 minutes over position II, and serve for about 1 minute. Therefore, in most divisions I know, it is common practice that referees indicate "5 minutes" and "last minute". But is is only common practice, not more.

If the captains do not agree, or if conflicts are raising, stop the warm-up time and grant each team whole the court for half the (remaining) time, serving team first. The other team must stay at its bench while not granted the court. (I never needed to use this last resort.)

Rainer Perske perske@uni-muenster.de

What it actually *says* in rule 7.2.2 is: "If both captains agree to warm-up at the net together, the teams may do so for 6 or 10 minutes, according to Rule 7.2.1."

However, it is the 1st referee's responsibility to control the warm-up (see rule 24.3.1.3) and, if he has indicated that the teams should be serving then that is what they must do if they do not wish to be penalised.

Often there is a common practice that you hit for about 5 minutes over position IV, for about 4 minutes over position II, and serve for about 1 minute. Therefore, in most divisions I know, it is common practice >that referees indicate "5 minutes" and "last minute". But is is only common practice, not more.

In England I believe it is 4, 4, 2.

If both teams are warming up simultaneously. If the teams have chosen to warm up independently, they can do what they like.

John McCabe info@easthantsvolleyball.org.uk

To learn more about European events, we have decided to adopt a team, Asterix Kieldrecht from Belgium and follow their progress in this years Women's "Top Team" competition. They are the current holders of the event and are looking to successfully defend it this year.

Asterix Kieldrecht Volleyball club

Having been knock out of this years European "Top Team" event, Asterix are now aiming to win their domestic league and cup competitions to re-qualify for next season's European competitions. The Belgian Federation has determined that the national cup winner will participate in the TOP TEAMS CUP, while the loser will be allowed to play in the European CEV cup.

The Asterix team is still on track. We are three games away from the playoffs, and still have not lost a single match, although we had to go to 30-32 in a set tonight. The cup final on Easter Sunday is now our #1 priority. We are very busy setting up a whole-day event four our supporters, with lunch, bus trips, the game and of course a party afterwards.

Vriendelijke groeten, 

Jan Jan.Bens@electrabel.com

5.9 In the Men's World Cup, the Netherlands setter, Peter Blange, injured his knee while playing defense. He remained lying on the floor while the coaches gathered around him and the team doctor of the Netherlands checked his injury . After about two minutes of therapy, Blange declared that he was able to play again. The referee then signaled for the match to continue with Blange continuing to play. Was this the correct decision by the first referee?

For the safety of the player, the team doctor should be allowed to come onto the court. If the injury appears to be serious, the first referee must stop the rally immediately and permit medical assistance to enter the court. If the injury is severe enough for coaches to come onto the court, the player should be removed from the court for at least one rally. The principle decision by the first referee is to give the player a reasonable time to know the seriousness of the injury, yet to limit the time before the substitution is required. The removal of the injured player must take place through the regular substitution process. If a regular substitution is not possible, then an exceptional substitution must be used. Rule 18.1.2

5.10 During play at the US National Championships, the American player, Lewis, was hit in the nose by the elbow of a team mate while blocking. Lewis received a "bloody nose". The coach of Lewis requested a substitution. The substitute reported to the scorer's table in a training suit. What is the correct response of the referee?


Referees must use discretion in cases where substitutions are not pre-planned. A substitute must be permitted a reasonable time to take off his or her training suit and enter the game without sanctions. It should be further noted that when an injury occurs in which there is bleeding of a player, the player must be substituted or replaced until the bleeding is stopped and the blood is removed from the player's uniform. Rule 4.4, 8, 16.5.2, 16.5.3,
18.1.1

More examples in the next issue....

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