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Hi all, more news from the Volleyball Newsletter 

Our web site has been on the move during the last few days (a change of server), hopefully everything is back up and running now but you may still find a few missing files here and there (it takes a little time to reload 100 MB).

Cheers - Dave Reece Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Any contacts with Schools/Clubs in Spain/France/Germany and Italy. Redhill School are seeking to set up exchanges with groups in any of these countries as part of our Language College status. We are actively seeking links in these countries through Volleyball.

Thanks

Pete Bragg pbragg@redhill.dudley.gov.uk

Dear Dave, Our club (Manchester Phoenix Volleyball Club) has got the new URL www.manchesterphoenix.org.uk Could you please change the link in the list of the UK volleyball club.

Many thanks and kind regards
Sven Freitag webmaster@manchesterphoenix.org.uk

Hi, My name is Dorota, I'm 24, finishing University of Phisical Education in Gdansk (Poland). I've played volleyball since 1993 (junior, 4 years in second league, now-in first B league in Poland). I'm looking for information about playing in UK. (born-02.01.79, height-1.83m, weight-69kg)

Thank You DOROTA WRZOCHOL doris1@mlyniec.gda.pl

Thanks, gary thomas garyt@provide.net

Dave, Could you update our web address on your site. We are now at www.chilternvolleyball.co.uk

Thanks Dave Fox DaveNFox@aol.com

Hi, I am doing a search to purchase men's international indoor volleyball game VHS tapes or CD's for a friend of mine. He's an European player, recently immigrated to US and would like to see some International games.

Thanks, Janis Keller queen@mtn.org

EVA Level I Coaching Award Course, March 13th and 14th at St Lukes Sports Hall, Exeter University, Tutor Ros Sutherland, Cost £65 pounds

Contact: Stuart Anderson, Sports Officer, Sports Hall, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, Devon EX4 4QN. www.ex.ac.uk/sport

Dear All, There will be a Level I Coaches course at George Ward School Melksham, Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th February 2004, £45 pounds. Tutor Ros Sutherland.

For details and to enroll, contact Sue Pierce pierces@corsham50.fsnet.co.uk

PHOTOS OF INTEREST

"I was anxious about it but each of the players did what they had to do, that was good," coach Bernardo Rezende said after the match. "Now, we are happy to qualify for the Athens Olympic Games but we should not be satisfied. Each player has his own points of improvement so we have to improve more for the Olympics. If we stop improving, other countries will over take us."  Serbia and Montenegro, needing only one set to guarantee a top three finish, did it tough but finally claimed their Olympic ticket in a 3-1 (25-18, 25-22, 21-25, 25-19) loss to France. "We knew it would be difficult to play when you only needed to win one set," Serbia and Montenegro coach Ljubomir Travica said. "Players played to win just one set, not the game."

Meanwhile, Italy, knowing they had already qualified for the Olympics, had to beat Japan to keep the pressure on Brazil for the World Cup title and finally sealed a four-set victory 25-21, 27-25, 25-27, 25-20 in front of a packed Yoyogi Stadium. Now Italy needs to beat Serbia and Montenegro convincingly on Sunday and have Brazil lose to Japan to claim their second World Cup title.

In the Tokyo Metropolitan Gym, Canada stole vital ground on Venezuela in the standings when they won their clash 25-21, 23-25, 25-20, 25-21 before Tunisia won a North African showdown beating Egypt 25-20, 25-19, 23-25, 25-16. Korea beat China 25-19, 25-21, 26-24 in the last match of the day.  The final day of the 2003 Men's World Cup on Sunday sees USA play France in the Yoyogi Stadium followed by Serbia and Montenegro taking on Italy and Japan playing Brazil. In the Tokyo Metropolitan Gym, Venezuela plays Egypt before Tunisia takes on China and Korea plays Canada.

Current standings: Brazil 10 wins 0 losses, Italy 9-1, Serbia & Montenegro 8-2, France 7-3, USA 7-3, Korea 5-5, Canada 4-6, Japan 3-7, Venezuela 3-7, Tunisia 2-8, China 1-9, Egypt 1-9. 

More photos available from both the Men's and Women's World Cup Tournament on the FIVB web site. www.fivb.org

Redhill Stourbridge Volleyball Club require an enthusiastic and energetic Assistant Coach to join our team of coaches to work within the club and local schools. 

We have a fine track record working with Juniors in National Cup competitions, several England Cadet and Junior players have been produced in the past 3 seasons. We wish to grow further so the right person could take our U18 Men's squad towards the National Finals and into Europe as our programme develops. 

As a result of a successful Awards for All bid we are able to offer financial reward for work in Mini Volleyball Club section and Primary Feeder schools. The right person will get opportunities for further employment in Dudley and the Black Country. You will need to be a qualified coach, with a desire to improve and extend your knowledge base to Level 3 within 12 months, support and mentoring from the Club Head Coach. Enhanced Police clearance is required. 

Further details about the club are available on our website: http://redhill-volleyball.members.easyspace.com 

Contact Pete Bragg on 01562 638002 if interested or email pbragg@redhill.dudley.gov.uk

Many thanks Gerry McArdle Sheffvolley@aol.com

The English Volleyball Association National Office have moved to Suite B, Loughborough Technology Centre, Epinal Way, Loughborough. LE11 3GE. 

www.moreover.com

Devon Women not only pick up some useful Div two points over the weekend but are currently making themselves into TV stars. Carlton TV (SW) have started to feature the teams activities and presented this weeks regional Sports Program on court from their training session. Carlton followed this up with highlights from Sundays five set match against Cleobury. 

Left to Right Back Row: Cleo Andrews, Julie Vickers, Amanda Squires, Becky Giddings
Front Row: Sue Back, Justine Sutton, Marion Williams, Alice Weaver

The team are also through to Round 3 of the Prosport, English Volleyball Association's KO Cup after a comfortable win over Solent from Southampton. The straight sets (3-0) victory, means that the Exeter-based club will now go into the draw for the last 16 in the tournament. Last year, Division 3 Devon managed to beat Division 1, Tonbridge at the same stage going on to a quarterfinal defeat to eventual finalists City of Wolverhampton.

FIVB Approved Beach Volleyball PC Game Have you got the right stuff to face the beach athletes? Compete with the best Pro Beach Players and become a worldwide champion! The first ever Beach Volleyball Game for the PC (2001), including official International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) players and Tournaments.

Melksham Volleyball Club have purchased the remaining 27 copies of the "Beach Volleyball" PC game, these are now on sale as a fund raising activity at a cost of £8.50 Pounds each plus £1.50 Pounds postage and packaging, all proceeds to the club. Build your own team with 26 female and 32 male FIVB Professional players: each player has their own skills and style. Create your own player, Eight locations, Three different modes: Training, Pro and an official FIVB tournament.  Multiplayer mode with up to Four players. Accurate 3D real time animation, including slow motion replay action. Intuitive and simple interface allows you to concentrate and enjoy the game.  Use all volleyball moves: Service, Block, Pass & Attack. Choice of Day or night play and camera positioning.

These make an ideal Christmas Gift, please contact Ray (evenings only, answer phone on at other times) to reserve your copy, payment; cheque only made payable to Melksham Volleyball Club, must be received within 7 days to secure your copy.  Goods will be supplied with in 7 days of payment receipt

More info from Ray Roscoe 01225 764569 / rayroscoeathome@hotmail.com
Melksham Volleyball club

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I coach a girl's high school volleyball team and I am hoping someone can direct me to a source for a particular item, because so far I have completely struck out. I am looking for a hand-held volleyball scorekeeper. Nothing fancy or electronic, just something that I can click to keep score during our practice scrimmages. Sort of like what a baseball umpire uses to keep track of balls and strikes, but of course the thing I am looking for would need to be able to score up to 25 for each of two teams.

Does anyone know if such a thing exists? Thanks for your time.

Scott ser_win_34695@yahoo.com

Why don't you just get two of those little clicker things they use in various places?  See http://www.keysan.com/ksu2752.htm

Haven't found a dual one, but here's a tripe/quintuple/septuple one - only thing is it looks desk mounted.

http://www.forestry-suppliers.com/product_pages/view_catalog_page.asp?id=1174

Best Regards
John McCabe john@demon.co.uk

Exceptional TV ratings for first round

The first round of the FIVB World Cup of Women’s Volleyball has produced exceptional television ratings both in the Tokyo area and throughout the country, officials from the host broadcasters FUJI TV have confirmed.

Fuji officials reported a rating of 21.8 percent in the Tokyo area and 20 percent for the entire country. According to the officials, on a national level, one percentage point represents one million television households. On an international level, matches are being broadcast in USA, Korea, China, Hong Kong, Italy, Poland, Turkey, as well as Central and South American countries.

The Japanese national team won their first three matches of the 11-match series and the Volleyball loving Japanese public not only rewarded the host broadcaster, but also flocked in record crowds to the Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo to see the team defeat Argentina and Egypt (each 3-0) and arch rivals Korea (3-2). They now face Italy and USA in Round Two in the Rainbow Stadium in Nagoya, where ticket sales on the eve of the opening match were already 98 percent sold out, local officials confirmed to the FIVB on Wednesday. Second round matches are also being played at Sendai, the Site B city for Round Two.

The event, the first official Olympic qualifier, is also attracting widespread press coverage in the Japanese domestic print and electronic media. On an international level, mainstream international news agencies and prominent sports electronic media are leading the charge to bring stories of the World Cup to the world.

One of the biggest continents of international media in Japan to cover the World Cup is from China, reflecting that there is a huge expectation in the world’s most populous country for their national team, the ruling Asian champions, to do well in the tournament. The top three teams directly qualify for the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics.

The Women’s World Cup continues to Sapporo and Toyoma for Round Three and both Site A and Site B matches conclude in the grand finale in Osaka, one of the heartlands of Japanese Volleyball.

World Cup action with live scores, news, results and pictures on www.fivb.org

Hi. My name is Kim Taylor, and I have "21 Reasons to Date a Volleyball Player" some are better than others. My friends and I were having a sleepover and we just started making things up because we are all volleyball players and we wanted something like this that could be for us. The people who thought these up are: Kim Taylor, Emily Peck, Jill Straw, Diane Petersohn, and Jes Covais. Well, here it is:

21 Reasons to Date a Volleyball Player
1)We play 5 straight games
2)We never give up {even if we know were losing}
3)The balls always come back
4)We have soft hands
5)We work well with big balls
6)Were always willing to go to the floor
7)Were good hitters
8)Were good at setting things up
9)We have a lot of endurance
10)We wear tiny/tight shorts
11)Its better with more than 1 person
12)Were flexible
13)We can do it in 6 different positions
14)Were willing to go any time, any place
15)We do as the "coach" says
16)We serve very well
17)Were always looking for a challenge
18)We play hard
19)We always work up a sweat
20)We always wanna keep going
21)We don't mind being banged around

Sincerely,
Kim Taylor littlekt90@yahoo.com

If you can add to this, please let us know and we will add then in the next issue Dave.Reece@volleyballnewsletter.com

Yamamoto scoops top individual prize, Japan's Takahiro Yamamoto was awarded the Best Scorer and M.V.P. award for the 2003 World Cup as the best players of the tournament were acknowledged by the International Volleyball Federation on Sunday with the presentation of individual awards. 

The Japanese wing spiker's 227 points outscored Ivan Miljkovic from Serbia and Montenegro by nine points and was made all the more impressive since Japan only recorded three victories from their 11 matches. 

The other individual awards saw Giovane from the World Cup champions Brazil receive the Best Spiker prize, Andrija Geric from Serbia and Montenegro the Best Blocker, Italy's Andrea Sartoretti the Best Server while the Best Libero award went to Sergio from Brazil and Serbia and Montenegro's Nikola Grbic was the Best Setter. 

2003 Men's World Cup player awards
Best Scorer & M.V.P - Takahiro Yamamoto JPN No 14
Best Spiker - Giovane BRA No 3
Best Blocker - Andrija Geric SCG No 12
Best Server - Andrea Sartoretti ITA No 7
Best Setter - Nikola Grbic SCG No 9
Best Libero - Sergio BRA No 10

A final award went to Japanese setter Daisuke Usami as the Most Spectacular Player. Although Usami topped the player statistics for Setters, the World Cup Control Committee used the power vested in it by the FIVB rules and regulations to award the prize to Grbic on the basis of overall performance. 

www.fivb.org

Dear Dave, I send you the citations and the abstracts of beach volleyball articles. Please include the journals and the citations on the volleyball newsletter.

Giatsis, G., & Tzetzis, G. (2003). Comparison of performance for winning and losing beach volleyball teams on different court dimensions. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 3, 65-74. 

Source: International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport 
http://ninetta.ingentaselect.com/vl=887446/cl=51/nw=1/rpsv/cw/uwic/14748185/contp1.htm

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the performance between winning and losing teams in Beach Volleyball (BV) matches on courts of new (8x8m) and old dimensions (9x9m) at the side out phase. Side out in BV means the change of the right to serve Nine semifinals and seven finals of the Hellenic BV Championship taking place at an 8x8m and 9x9m court were video-recorded using a camera. 34 sets and 1466 phases were recorded and the following technical skills were analyzed: a) serve b) reception c) attack. In addition, attack was divided into two categories according to the type of the attack: a) spikes and b) shots. The term effectiveness was established by the ratio determining the total kills minus total errors divided by total attempts. Independent samples t-test was used in order to compare the above mentioned parameters between the winning (W) and losing (L) teams at these two different court dime! nsions (8x8, 9x9). Significant differences were found, t(16) = 3.06, p< .01), in the attack efficiency (MW8x8 = .476, SD = .086, ML8x8 = .315, SD = .131), (t(18) = 2.44, p< .05), in the spike efficiency (MW8x8 = .479, SD = .162, ML8x8 = .254, SD = .236), in the percentage of errors (MW8x8 = .139, SD = .052, ML8x8 = .204, SD = .077), (t (18) = 2.21, p< .05), in the percentage of receptions errors (ML9x9 = .09, SD = .043, MW9x9= .032, SD = .029), t(10) = 2.73, p< .05) and in reception (MW 9x9 = 0.96, SD = 0.03, ML9x9 = 0.90, SD = 0.05), (t(10) = 2.74, p< 0.05). Winning and losing teams used the spikes and shots at approximately the same rate. In conclusion, different skills performance contributed to winning the match after the reduction in court dimensions. On the 8x8, the winners had better attack efficiency and fewer errors, while on the 9x9 they had better reception. 

Giatsis, G. (2003). The effect of changing the rules on score fluctuation and match duration in the FIVB women's beach volleyball. International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport, 3, 57-64. 

Source: International Journal of Performance Analysis in Sport 
http://iris.ingentaselect.com/vl=1916954/cl=41/nw=1/rpsv/cw/uwic/14748185/contp1.htm

Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the differences between the two scoring systems, Rally Scoring (RS) and Side Out scoring (SO), in the duration and the score fluctuation of matches in Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) Women's Beach Volleyball (BV). In this research the duration and the points of 1253 matches were recorded from 22 tournaments of the FIVB Women's BV World Tour. The 2000 FIVB tournaments followed the SO system and the 2001 FIVB followed the RS system. Since the 2001 FIVB was played in 2 winning sets, it was divided in two subgroups concerning the final score (RS2-0 and RS2-1). The 2000 FIVB was played in a single set of 15 points. The one way ANOVA indicated that there were significant differences (F(3,1835) = 268.091, p< .001) in total duration of matches between the tournaments. The Post Hoc Scheffe indicated significant differences between t! he SO (M = 35.5, SD = 9.9 min) and the RS (M = 41.6, SD = 10.2 min), the SO and the RS2-1 (M = 53.8, SD = 7.2 min). In SO matches the losers won (M = 8.1, SD = 3.7 points), while in the RS mean match phases were (M= 83.5, SD = 17.4). 46.4% and 12.7% of the matches included a set with the minimum difference of points in the RS and SO respectively. In conclusion, RS increased match duration due to the third set and the matches were more wavering and spectacular as more sets finished with the minimum difference of points. However, the physical demands of the game were increased due to the greater number of rallies. 

Sincerly, George Giatsis

GEORGE GIATSIS 

Teacher of Beach Volleyball at A.U.Th.
2001 and 2002 1st in Ranking on Greece on BV and coach of Knapek and Papadimitriou. (champions of Greece at 2003, 2nd ant 4th place in BV World Championship under 20 and 23. Teacher of Beach Volleyball Specialty.
http://www.geocities.com/tzortze (Sandmen)

Hi Mike, I wear Active Ankle T2 on both feet and I am really happy with them. Before I had the older ones (T1) and I wasn't really satisfied with them cause the felt kinda alien on my feet. You'll just have to try them out, I've heard a lot of bad press about those kind of supports because it will (supposingly) weaken your muscles and tendons over time. I don't know about that but that might be true. I cannot comment about MalleoLocs because I didn't try them yet.
Simon Bühler mail@simon-buehler.de

Other options might be the Mueller ATF or the Swede-O Ankle Loc. I used an ATF before. It's really light, and comes in specific right or left foot versions, which helps with the fit. http://www.muellersportsmed.com/atfanklebrace.htm / http://www.swedeo.com/products.htm 
y_p_w y_p_w@hotmail.com

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