Practical Sport- Volleyball                                                                      Ethan Hollingsworth-GCFE

D.O.B- 06/08/1998
Weight- 75kg
Height-5ft 10inchs

Sport Background:
I played football since I was 5 until 14 and then I Started playing rugby for the Island Team Under 16. I participated in the inter school athletics and came 2nd in the Long jump.

Technical Demands:

The Technical Demands for volleyball are:

• Serving- To be able to serve the ball over the net and take up the right position. There are 5 main types of serve. There is the Basic Underarm, Over Arm Float, Over Arm Top Spin, Roundhouse, Jump Serves. The server should stand behind the base line and throw the ball into to the air and hit the ball over arm when the ball is at is peak.

• Digging- To be able to Dig you have to bend you knees and get into a good position, lock your hands together and hit the ball with your forearms you get better accuracy. Hit the ball in the right place and you will get the significant lift.

• Setters- To be able to set a good to ball the the spiker you have to get into a good position. You have to get underneath the ball, bent knees, arms above the head ready to push the ball into the air so the spiker has time to get into position and get his technique right.

• Spiker- The spiker should be standing by the net and ready to jump up and receive the set to blast it over the net hard fast and to the floor on the opponents half. You should have bent knees, eyes on the ball, you should vertically jump and hit the ball with an open palm, this will give it the power it needs to go hard a fast. You should hit the ball when it is at the peak of its travel. 

• Blocker- The blocker should be standing by the net as well. Making a successful block should be when your body is in a pencil shape, your arms are above you head as far as you can reach up and you should jump when the opponents have hit the ball just over the net.

   

You can changed the sport and improve it by widening or narrowing the court, moving locations from a court to a beach. Lowering the net for younger kids or disabled people in wheelchairs, or raising it for tall people and adults. 

         
Tatical Demands:
The tactical demands of the game included reading the gameplay or situation,  acquiring the knowledge to make the right tactical desisions and to be able to apply the correct decision making to be able to make a call in the game.

These Tatical skills are the bridge between practice play and in game play, of course the technical demands are important and you need to know how to play the game, but with knowing how to make the correct decisions at the right time the game wouldn't run. Volleyball is all about quick decisions, team work and where to hit the ball on the opponents side of the court so you can score a point.
Communitcation ability and character traits are important in the game because you need to have the mental ability to pick out a weak player and no that if you target that player then they will start to get under pressure and mess up their game.