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Hi all - More Volleyball news from the web.

Don't forget to get your summer tournaments advertised, full calendar listing available on the web site.

Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Hi Dave, Could you please add our web site to your list: www.cardiffladiesvolleyballclub.moonfruit.com

Regards
Jayne Burke Jayne.Burke@ramesys.com

Well its about time.....Bon Accord Volleyball Club has now got its very own website. Just now its only wee but over the next few weeks I hope to have more club information posted. www.bavc.bravepages.com

enjoy. Adrian Kearns adriankearns@yahoo.com

I've moved here from Canada in the past 6 months or so and I'm DESPERATE to find a volleyball team in my area. Would you happen to know of any volleyball teams in the oxfordshire area? THANK YOU! I haven't played Volleyball in SO long and I'm missing it to death!

Leanne Kinnie energetic_angel@hotmail.com

The Exeter Ladies Challenge

2003 Exeter Ladies Challenge:
The 2003 Exeter Ladies Challenge, (previously know as the Dawlish Ladies Challenge) will take place on the 27th April 2003 (10:00 - 18:00) at the Riverside Leisure Centre, Exeter. This double court, indoor tournament, will cater for all playing standards, from Beginners to NL standard. 

Tournament Notes:

>>>> ONLY A FEW PLACES LEFT <<<<

We are limited to 12 teams, the previous three events has been oversubscribed, so please book early.
The Exeter Ladies Challenge is the largest indoor Ladies event in the South West.

Sponsors:  
This years event is being sponsored by the following organisations.

• Exeter & District VA www.edva.org.uk
• The Volleyball Newsletter www.volleyballnewsletter.com
• Torexe VC www.torexevolleyball.com

We featured the volleyball film "Iron Ladies" in a previous issue, now on Film Four.

We would also hope that the coach would be active in encouraging youth development activities. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and reliable. Although coaching qualifications might be useful, they are by no means obligatory. If you are interested, or you know someone else who might be interested, then please get in touch with Helen Snaith (sec@solentvb.org.uk).

Helen Snaith sec@solentvb.org.uk

WEEKEND SELECTION DATES:

 12-13 April 2003
 19-20 April 2003
 26-17 April 2003
 3-4 May 2003

Location: Aldenham (Hertfordshire), Harrow and Rickmansworth

The coach will be involved in the training of the women (duration of 3 yrs). The coach will be expected to travel with the participants (next games will be in Iran), traveling costs will be paid by The Muslim News.

*Please note that in 2004 a warm-up match will be played against other international teams in LONDON. For further information please call, Ahmed Versi, Games Coordinator

Thank you,
Ms E.A Buaras elham@muslimnews.co.uk

INTERNATIONAL MUSLIM WOMEN'S GAMES 2005
PO BOX 380, HARROW, MIDDLESEX, HA2 6LL, 
Tel: 020 8863 85 86, Mobile: 077 6824 13 25, Fax: 020 8863 93 70
www.muslimnews.co.uk

Coaches Required

Coaches and Managers for Youth Regional Squads in the South of England

Would you be interested in helping out with these boys squads. Officially the training sessions are scheduled for once a month throughout the season, with a couple of tournaments a year. intrigued? please have a chat with the regional coaches above.

Sue Risbridger Regional Co-ordinator.
rissi2000@hotmail.com

Alternatively, drop sarah a line at sarahhalling@hotmail.com

Sarah Halling sarahhalling@hotmail.com

Calling all U15 & U17 Boys in the South of England

Are you 13 - 17, interested in attending regional training sessions? These sessions are aimed at developing new players, but we are having trouble discovering you all. If you are even interested or even slightly curious, please contact me or one of the regional coaches below for further information, everyone is welcome.

SE England; (Surrey, Sussex, Kent, Hamps, Bucks etc)
Julie Garrard; julie_garrard@onetel.net.uk

Additional training available in Dorking on a Thursday evenings with a local league team.

London; U15 Gary Beckford; gary@volleyfirst.co.uk
U17 John Lowney; worldyouthgames@btinternet.com

Sue Risbridger Regional Co-ordinator.
rissi2000@hotmail.com

Dear Sir/Madam, The International Volleyball Federation has commissioned our institute, MIS Trend, to carry out a survey among people interested in volleyball, which is why we are sending you this e-mail and asking you to take two small minutes of your time to complete a questionnaire, which you can access by clicking on the link below. 

http://www.expression-directe.com/questions?avolley&log=0080

Because the survey is running to a very tight deadline, we would be grateful if you could complete this questionnaire as quickly as possible. 
With thanks for your participation and kind regards, 

Mathias Humery miss@vtx.ch

I'm trainig/coaching a team in 1st division in Belgium. I'm looking for scouting papers for scouting my own players, that I can fill in myself during the game. They must be easy to fill in but detailed enough to give me a correct view on my team and on each player individual

Patrik Feyen patrik.feyen@planetinternet.be

Some ideas:

1) Steph Schleuder's book, "Comprehensive Volleyball Statistics: A Guide for Coaches, Media, and Fans" has a lot of information on collecting and processing statistical information. You will probably know most of the statistical information, but, there are also a lot of forms in the back to copy or to use as a guide in making your own forms. (Note: I wrote a chapter on charting vb matches for this book)

The book is available through the American Volleyball Coaches Association: www.avca.org/vip/vipcontent.htm

2) I have an old charting tutorial on my web page which may be of interest. A lot of the information is out-of-date, however, the general ideas are probably still all right. These tutorials served as the basis for the book chapter mentioned above. 
http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~oski/vball.html

3) Join the volleystats mailing list. This is a group of players, coaches, and fans that discuss issues related to statistics collection, analysis, and interpretation. 
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/volleystats

L. Ravi Narasimhan oski@physics.ucla.edu

The effect of rule changes for the scoring system on the duration of the beach volleyball game. 

The purpose of this study was to investigate if the changes effected on the game of beach volleyball by the enforcement of the new scoring rules, influenced the fluctuation of score of the game. It recorded the total match duration and the number of sets, of 149 Greek games (ÅÐ98), 302 FIVB games (WS98) of 1998 period and 114 Greek games and 308 FIVB games of 2001 period. The period of 1998 the tournaments were played with “side out, on 15 point” scoring system and the period of 2001 with the “rally point, on 21 point” scoring system (only “tiebreak set” on 15 point). 

The results were shown that on “15 point” Greek games the losers had mean score 9 points and the FIVB games had mean score 8.40 points equivalent. The 16% of 1998 Greek games ended with the difference of two points, with 12.3% the FIVB games respectively. 

After the changes of scoring system the mean score was 84.3 points and the 34.9% of games ended on 2-1 set and the total points were 102.9. The 65.1% of games ended on 2-0 set with total points 75. The 28.1% of sets ended with the difference of two points, although the 59% of games had sets with this difference of two points. Respectively in FIVB2001 the total points were 86, with the 35.2% of games ended 2-1 set score and mean of points 105. The 64.8% of games ended with 2-0 set score and mean of points 76. The 50% of games had sets with difference two points and the 35% of sets ended with the difference of two points. These results were shown that the games were done more interesting about 20-25%, while if considered that one interesting set could characterize an interesting game, this percentage increased about 40-45%. 

Finally these changes of scoring system will lead to beach volleyball games, which are both entertaining and fascinating to watch both on the court and on TV, to be more qualitative, more wavering and more interesting to the gallery. 

GEORGE GIATSIS teacher of beach volleyball at the Dep. of. Ph.Ed. (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Ph.D candidate on Biomechanics. Beach volleyball coach. http://www.geocities.com/tefaa_beach

George Giatsis tzortze@yahoo.com

Have you tried The Sports Authority? The Mizuno are very good and stylish. If you can find them the Defender series come in a large size which is quite stretchable and easy to put on and take off, but just flat, not a big bulge over the knee. 
AnthonyMarsh amarsh@quik.com

Those are big legs. My knees are 15", and I've got body-builder legs. But my Nike pads (several years old, unfortunately) slide on over my shoes. These are the wide/tall/thin ones. I think they'd work. Hope you can find a pair.

Raptor lawall@xmission.com

The Under-18 event is to be staged in cooperation with promoter Pentangle Promotions and will comprise 16 teams per gender (a total of 32 teams). The competition will comprise one day of qualification, followed by four days of the main draw tournament.

The World Championships U-21 had been awarded to France and Thursday’s announcement about the Under-18 category completes arrangements for these important annual junior championships, considered by the FIVB as the essential breeding ground for the next generation of top players.

Players interested in competing at either of the two Junior Beach Volleyball World Championships should contact their National Federations for more information. The competition will be open to 24 teams of each gender (total of 48 teams), and comprise one day of qualification and four main draw days of competition.

 
Swatch-FIVB World Tour Calendar Update

Due to the current geopolitical and economic world crisis, the FIVB has been forced to make some adjustments to the 2003 Swatch—FIVB World Tour Calendar, but as a gesture of solidarity to the players, the world governing body for Beach Volleyball and Volleyball has decided to retain the originally allocated sum of Bonus Pool money, to be distributed among the events. Calendar updates include the following changes:

Pending Events:
· Stavanger, Norway, Open July 1-6 – this men’s and women’s open event is being renegotiated with a new promoter after the original promoter was declared bankrupt
· Poland, who had announced they would not be able to stage their event in the 2003 season have reopened negotiations with a new promoter
· South Africa – negotiations continue for a women’s open event, planned for December 2003.
Other:
· Montreal, Canada, Open (double gender) - organizers did not confirm their participation for the 2003 calendar within the agreed regulation deadline.

For more Beach Volleyball and Volleyball news, go to www.fivb.org

Karpol - Lunatics - that's what I need

by Tomislav Birtic author@nikolaikarpol.com

 www.nikolaikarpol.com

Without giving to much of the book away, Nikolai Karpol's coaching career starts in Russia during the sixties, turned his club professional in the early 1970's. Running and operating a club in a socialist environment, is quite different to running a club in the West, the book explains his experiences and the tactics he employs, to try and give his girls the upper hand. He make the connection between team spirit and success, sets ups his own social and welfare structure for the girls, all of which is in stark contrast to the public image you get from his visual out bursts.

A fascinating book and one which I'm happy to recommend to our readers. 

Dave Reece 
Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Paperback, 129 Pages, 22 B&W pictures. It's published in Croatia, cost approximately £11 pounds (17 Euros) and is available on-line from www.nikolaikarpol.com and delivery took about three days

[As it cost less than £18 pounds their is no VAT or import duty to pay, although my copy had been opened by customs, I trust they had a good read.]

One of the most charismatic volleyball coaches, twice Olympic champion (1980, 1988) and twice Olympic silver medallist (1992, 2000), world champion in 1990 and three times bronze medallist (1994, 1998, 2002), three times Grand Prix winner (1997, 1999, 2002), eight times European champion (1977, 1979, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1997, 1999 & 2001). Ten time European Champion's cup (1981, 1982, 1983, 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1994, 1995 & 1998), the European Cup winners' cup 1986, Thirteen Soviet Union Championships and ten times championships of independent Russia. Elected Coach of the year by the FIVB in 1989 and 1991. 

Russian Nikolai Karpol, after more than twenty years of silence decided to present himself to the audience in the almost total disclosure book titled "Lunatics - That's What I Need", the sweetest candy for his colleagues, players, managers, volleyball fans and journalists.

I could choose between unloading freight from wagons or teaching children to play volleyball, and it was not difficult to choose. The scholarship I was given by the Mathematics Institute was not even sufficient for food, so, as an amateur second league player (setter) with no real success, at the age of twenty, I became a volleyball coach. I continued to live simply, very simply, but at least I could continue studying. At that time, of course, I had no idea that my work as a coach would become my career. I was convinced I would be a mathematician, but there it is, life simply gave me the opportunity to become a coach, which I did and I still am one today.

In 1971 I decided to turn the amateur team into a professional one, to turn a factory club into a top ranking club. One day I told the girls that they were not to go to work, but only train from that moment on. The next morning the director saw them in the factory enclosure and asked them why they were not at work. They
replied that their coach had told them not to go to work. Now I had to persuade the director to accept our new way of working. I asked him if he wanted a top team. When I came there I did not say that the players I found there were mine, but two years later I had the right to do so. I told him that if he did not want a top club, we would go to another factory, which would maybe want us. It worked!

However, a player can be taller, we can make her grow, by training, by up to two or three centimetres, and if we are able to allow the child to train in a variety of climates, then even more. Precisely, changing climates encourages growth by a few centimetres, and so we spend some time in the Urals, a little in Croatia. By exercising and changing climates we can add four to six centimetres. Also, we can also influence growth with food containing many vitamins and certain fermented products. In the spring I would go south from Uralochka to the Crimea since in the Urals at that time of year there is no fresh food, which is vital to us. Electro-magnetic fields also influence human growth and they vary in different parts of the globe.

I will describe one of the exercises my girls do for stamina. They go up to six hundred metres by car, run to the top of a hill of a thousand metres and then run down. It would be impossible to tell someone to do four thousand squats. Who could do four thousand squats? The effort needed for running those four hundred metres uphill is equivalent to the effort used by the body doing four thousand squats, and this is how you gain both strength and stamina. This exercise is also good for the ligaments, the knees and ankles.

The way the game is organised is based on science, mathematics, mathematical game theories which are based on mathematical analysis, function theory and differential calculus. In order to know what your opponent has available (how you can oppose him) and what you have available (how you will attack), you have to understand mathematics. We have organised the game in a way that no one else ever has. That is why few people understand the way our game is organised. In relation to the way other teams play, ours differs in only one way - it has been organised using science, mathematics. We have used differential
calculus in the theory of the game. The dependency of attack and defence may be shown as functions.

Smirnova has a grandmother whom she loves very much. She could not smash the ball in the match against Peru in the finals at the Seoul Olympics. It just would not work. In the break when Peru was leading 2-0 and 12-6 in the third set, I asked her, what would your grandmother say if we lost? She nearly broke down in tears. I asked her again and she started to cry, Come on, go and play for your granny, I told her. And she played like never before. But you can use these, I won't say weak, but strong points that players have only once. Sometimes you have to wait years for the right moment, determine when it is important enough to use what you know.

I need self-confident women who will not admit to any greater authority than themselves, and everyone else who works with me needs to be like that too. Those around them should see them as lunatics. They must be great in the sense that they are so completely self-confident. I tell my girls if they can't settle with their husbands the details of travel arrangements, matches and competitions, they cannot be the best in the world. A woman may be tall, fast, strong but she can't win. Only when she is capable of being the boss in the family is she able to be the best in the world. I need strong people.

best regards,
Tomislav Birtic author@nikolaikarpol.com

Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball stars all the ladies from the Dead or Alive fighting games and a new character named Lisa. In addition to the standard beach volleyball tournament, players will have a wealth of other recreational activities to choose from on the island. Gamers can spend time in the arcade, where they can play a mini game of Dead or Alive 3; a cinema, where they can view a trailer of Ninja Gaiden or other Dead or Alive games; or a casino, where they can try their hand at special Dead or Alive versions of slots, poker, blackjack, roulette and more. Other mini-games include a lifeguard drill, a dance competition and a beauty contest.

SPECIAL CASES

9.16 At the Women's Final Olympic Qualification Tournament Korea was playing China. At the score of 8-6 in favor of Korea in second set, the Korean coach asked the second referee if the server was correct. The second referee checked with the scorer and replied that the correct player was ready to serve. The first referee continued the match. Is this the correct process for the Koreans?

The only team member allowed to speak with a referee is the game captain. Thus, the coach is not authorized to speak to the second referee. Rule 5.1.2

9.17 In the Top Teams Cup Szeged (HUN) was playing Kakanj (BIH). During the match, the coach of Szeged requested a substitution by pushing the buzzer and giving the proper hand signal for the substitution. This was done slightly after the first referee's whistle for Szeged to serve. The play stopped.

The first referee recognized the situation and rejected the request by slightly waving his hand. Meanwhile, both the incoming and outgoing players went to the correct position in the substitution zone ready to perform the substitution. The first referee urged the Szeged player to serve. At the moment of the service, the
second referee blew his whistle and signaled a positional fault on the serving team because there were seven players on the court. 

After a short discussion between the first and second referees, the first referee signaled the service and point to Kakanj. Was this a correct decision? This is a typical case of an improper request. The request for substitution should have been denied, Szeged should have been sanctioned with a delay sanction, and the Szeged should have been given a replay on the serve. 

Concerning the action of the second referee, the second referee has neither the right nor the responsibility to judge the serving team's positional faults. When the second referee blows his/her whistle in this case, the rally must be replayed. Rules?

More examples in the next issue....

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