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Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Hello Dave, My name is Ak and I play in University of London Volleyball club. Right now we play in the London Premier League and in the EVA National Cup. I would be grateful if you can add our webpage in your links. http://www.geocities.com/actionrec/Intro.html

thanks Anargyros Koukoutsidis Anargyros.Koukoutsidis@t-mobile.co.uk

Hi Dave, My name is Doug and I have been looking for a local volleyball team in Cornwall for a while now with no luck, I am based in Helston but would be willing to travel within reason. I have looked on the southwest volleyball assoc. homepage (Via the EVA site) and had no luck there.  Any and all help would be very much appreciated 

Cheers
Doug Hastings anoraknophobia@madasafish.com

Hi Dave, I was trying to order the "Science of coaching volleyball" book, advertised on the newsletter site but I was told that it is out of print. Do you know where I can get a copy from? 

Or may be suggest another one. I was looking for a book that would also go into tactics during play and not only training session routines.

Thanks in advance.
George Goudinakis G.Goudinakis@Cranfield.ac.uk

Dave, I am looking for a volleyball team for my wife in the Holland Park, Notting Hill, or Kensington area. It can either be womens or co-ed. Also, do you know if there are any Japanese teams in London? My wife is 1/2 Japanese.

Thank you. Any information you could provide would be great.

Regards,
John Sproat John.Sproat@morganstanley.com

Surrey Junior Volleyball 

Tournament

 SATURDAY 28^TH SEPTEMBER 2002

THE ASHCOMBE CENTRE, DORKING, SURREY

3 DIVISIONS:     U18 BOYS                           U18 GIRLS                           U14 MIXED

Each division will consist of 2 pools of 4 teams. Each pool will play a round robin. The top team from each pool will then play a final.
E.V.A. rules apply apart from: sets will be to 15 points maximum, to the best of 3 sets or timed match to 30 minutes. If the score is drawn at the end of 30 minutes then one further rally is played.
A 10 minute warm-up is allowed before each match.
Girls may play in the boy's pools but not visa versa.
U14 Division: must have a least 3 girls on court at all times

Sandwiches and refreshments will be on sale throughout the day.
The sports centre has full changing and shower facilities, and a large car park.

In association with  ASHCOMBE VOLLEYBALL CLUB and Chessington World of Adventures

Click Here for Tournament Entry Form

The Asterix Kieldrecht International Volleyball Tournament took place last weekend for the 29th time. More than 1000 players enjoyed the fine weather, good volleyball, and some Belgian beers.

We will remember the large delegation from Scotland (and not only because they were so kind to offer the organizers a bottle of fine 10 year old malt whiskey), the old friends from Inter Millager, Newcastle or British Airways that already come for more than 10 years to Kieldrecht, and especially the Taiwanese team from Taipei. The young players impressed everybody with their sparkling and inspired volleyball. They very much deserved the spontaneous round of applause that all other participants gave them at the closing ceremony.

A complete ranking, and lots of pictures, can be found on the Asterix site: http://go.to/kieldrecht

University of Surrey, Guildford is looking for a new coach for the coming new academic year starting at the end of September. Training on Thursday evening, any interested parties please apply to Mrs. Sally Edie s.edie@surrey.ac.uk, Head of Sports Programmes, University of Surrey, Guildford or phone her on 01483 683917.

Thanks 

Sam Yip YIPS@hasbro.co.uk

Tax Relief for Clubs

Volleyball is a qualifying sport for community amateur sport club status and thereby benefit from the last budget and tax relief of player/member donations and other benefits too. Clubs can now apply to the lnland Revenue to register -they'll be sent an application pack.

www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk/casc/index.htm and www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/Newsroom and speeches

Community Amateur Sports Clubs ("CASCs")

Many amateur sports clubs will be able to register as CASCs without making any changes to the way they operate or are structured. However, some clubs may find that changes are needed before they can successfully register. Before you complete the application forms you may want to see whether your club is likely to be successful in applying for registration. You can do this by answering the following four questions.

1. Is membership of the club open to the whole community?
   (more information)
2. Are all the club’s facilities available to members without discrimination?
   (more information)
3. Does the club’s constitution prevent profits of the club being distributed amongst its members (i.e. any profits must go back into the club)?
   (more information)
4. Does the club provide facilities for & encourage participation in eligible sports? (more information)

If you can answer Yes to all four questions it is likely that you will be able to register as a CASC without making any changes. In some cases you may need to make some small changes to the way the club is organised. If you cannot answer Yes to all four questions it is unlikely that the club will be able to register without making significant changes. You may wish to consider making the necessary changes before applying for registration. Further information about the benefits of registering as a CASC can be found in our guidance notes.

Summary
Without too much investigation, if your club is paying Corporation Tax (annual turnover of 10K or more), then you will have a good reason to apply for CASC status. 

It may well be that in future, for example to obtain sponsorship, that you may have to be registered, so you should keep it in mind. It also requires an annual Inland Revenue submission, which may well dissuade anyone from volunteering as your club Treasurer in the future...

Civil Service Volleyball

Volleyball is widely played throughout the Civil Service, but the involvement and participation of more people - be they established players or beginners is very welcome. Volleyball is played at many levels with the confines of the Civil Service Sports Council. Membership of the Council is open to employees of nearly four hundred different organisations, covering a wide range of existing and previous core civil service work.

Apart from all the expected Whitehall departments and agencies, membership is open to the likes of BT, Consignia who used to be part of the Civil
Service in days gone by, through to the likes of Met Police civilian staff, and Sport England.

So, you never know, you may be able to join the Council and play some more volleyball!

Volleyball is played at Departmental level with the likes of Customs and Excise and MoD having their own national championships, these then feed
their own national teams who compete in the 34 team Inter Departmental Championships in September. 

At a regional level anyone can turn up and play in an event in the winter with the aspiration of making it through to the national Festival in April
where a team from each of the 12 regions comes forward for two days play. Many regions also have outdoor events during the summer.

The Civil Service national sides host an invitational tournament over the May Bank Holiday in Leeds, where the best players compete at the highest
level. And our offer is completed by a Beach Championships in July.

So, if you want to play, or want to know more, or simply check out if your are eligible to join log on to www.csscvolleyball.org or email Lenny Barry  lenny.barry@hmce.gsi.gov.uk

Lenny Barry  lenny.barry@hmce.gsi.gov.uk

This ratio may be considered, as a measure of efficiency and assuming that the score rate is not varying too much over the different rotations it can be directly compared to the average score rates of the teams. Comparisons with previous data are done in the table.

Old rules to 15 
From the attack data average score rates are estimated to be about 0.42 for the winning teams and 0.32 for the loosing teams. The tournament ace ratio is hence clearly lower than either of these values and it would appear therefore that still too many errors are made in the service. The data are different amongst the various teams as shown in following table.

It is shown hence that good results can be obtained with low errors as for instance France or with higher errors as typical for Germany. On an individual bases about 40 % of the players reach an ace over ace plus error ratio of 0.30, which is considered as a minimum.  The others do score lower values and unless specific rotation data do indicate that this is justified it would appear that they make too much errors for the result obtained. Some typical data for players with near or over 100 services are given in next table.

The data are ranked on percentage successful. The data show that the successful servers score more than 10 % aces for a tournament average of only 5.92 %. The percentage errors are varying from 13 to 32. There are no clear reasons for this kind of difference. The higher errors can in principle be compensated by more aces but if this is not the case it will only result in lower efficiency. It is shown that the highest error percentages correspond to a lower ace ratio and that the value drops below the required minimum of 0.30. 

leo van hal leovh@wanadoo.fr

In the final set Tim and Grant failed to get those runs of points on their serve they are so used to. Again consistent serving and hitting, especially from Vince Joyce, enabled Jody and Vince to have four match points. Having saved two, the third was beyond them, as Grant and Tim failed to defend another massive attack.

The whole weekend was a great success, the competition was at its finest and the Bournemouth Beach Volleyball Club with the help of Bournemouth Council, The Neptune, Jumpin Jaks, Fitness First and Parasol Skin Care plan to be back next year.

Richard Cannon richard@rcannons.co.uk

The first player injuries began to surface at the Kerygma volleyball marathon yesterday, after four days of play in aid of charity. Organisers said although nothing serious had been reported, two players had to sit out of the 240-hour event with a fractured arm and a sprained ankle.

“Two players may be hurt but the back-up members of the teams have taken over until they are well enough to play again. We have a great voluntary team on stand by to give physiotherapy and care for the injured players,” a Kerygma spokesman told The Malta Independent. But nothing seems to be getting in the way of the organisers’ aim to raise even more money for the Dominican Missions and the Dar tal-Providenza than last year.

“People need to keep donating money and showing their support for the players by coming here or phoning in,” said one enthusiastic volunteer. “We can beat last year’s total if everyone works together,” she added.

More than 90 hours into the marathon, the Kerygma team have been successful in raising Lm77,077 and attracting more than 20,500 people to the trade fair grounds in Naxxar. Education Minister Louis Galea visited the event yesterday and thanked the volunteers and players for the sacrifice they were making in solidarity for the two charities. He added: “Thank you for the example you are giving Malta as a whole, to help people and to work together for a common goal.

“More than the Dominican Missions and Dar tal-Providenza, the Malta society will benefit from the sacrifices of these volunteers,” the minister said.
He also delivered a personal message from Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami, who apologised for not being there in person and congratulated the 1,800 volunteers and 54 players for their good work. 

Update
The charity volleyball marathon enters its seventh day today with everyone taking part hoping to raise more money than ever before. At 5pm yesterday, Lm98,204 had been raised after 138 hours of volleyball in the Go Mobile sponsored event. Teams of athletes, and more than 1,800 other volunteers, are playing round the clock to collect funds for Id-Dar tal-Providenza and the Dominican Mission in Albania. It is estimated that around 37,000 people have flocked to the Trade Fair Grounds in Naxxar since the marathon started, including a number of MPs and Archbishop Joseph Mercieca. 

Joanne Michelle Caruana http://www.independent.com.mt

IT WAS time to get muddy during the mud volleyball tournament Saturday during the Bremenfest, Ohio, USA. Visitors enjoyed a variety of food, entertainment and contests.

Spectators could watch mud volleyball games, cheerleading contests and various concerts. Winning the mud volleyball tournament was the team of Schwieterman Drainage / Gilberg-Hartwig Funeral Home. Second place went to Nastyness.

http://www.sidneydailynews.com/

It was the Russian team's first ever World League title, the richest men's event in the annual FIVB calendar, and follows on from the Russian women's team winning the World Grand Prix final in Hong Kong several weeks ago. Earlier Yugoslavia won the bronze medal 3-1 (28-26, 29-27, 23-25, 25-21) depriving eight times title winners Italy of a piece of this year's World League glory.

Although Brazil were on the court with their Dream Team and were supported by some 20,500 screaming fans, it was still not enough to beat the might of the Russians who had crept back into the semifinals after a rocky performance in the round robin of the final round. The Russians also cleaned up on the individual awards, winning everything except the Best Scorer Award that went to Ivan Miljkovic of Yugoslavia with a total of 61 points. Other awards went to Pavel Abramov (Best Attacker), Alexi Koulechov (Best Blocker) and Vadim Khamouttskikh (Best Server) - all from the Russian team.

In their match, Yugoslavia's warriors put away the disappointment of their defeat by Brazil in the semis to contest one of the most closely fought matches of the tournament with each side chasing down every point. 

The 2003 World League final will be hosted by Madrid, Spain.

Pictures: www.fivb.org/EN/Volleyball/Competitions/WorldLeague/2002/Photos/Photos.asp

Dan Rowe http://www.nationalpost.com

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To learn more about professional Volleyball and European events, we have decided to adopt a team, Asterix Kieldrecht from Belgium and follow their progress in European competitions.

SPECIAL CASES

9.2 During a match between Cuba and Canada, the Cuban women played very hard and fast. The Canadian team intentionally slowed down the tempo of the game of the very emotional Cubans. How should the referee respond?

ANSWER:
"Tempo" is a very delicate element in volleyball. Every team has its optimum playing tempo. Tempo is not in the rules, but its control is one of the key factors in the performance of a good referee. A suitable tempo will allow a match to be played at a high level. On the other hand, the referee should keep the game at a constant tempo within the normal flow of the game. The referee should never allow any external influences to retard the flow of a good match and ruin the good performance of one of the teams. This is another "art" of refereeing.

More examples in the next issue....

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