Question about your experience with volleyball?

Question

i am just asking for you to tell me a sort humorous, motavationg, inspiring, or learning experience you or your friends, team members whatever with volleyball, im just asking because i want to know of something doing with volleyball. its for a project im doing!!! woh ho!

Answer 1

humorous- I have many. At a game for my school, we had this really mean ref. She wouldn't call anything on the other side, only on my side. My coach was telling us that at a time out and she heard and said she's been fair. So when we began playing again, the ref called a bad call on our time. My coach rolled her eyes and got a yellow card for 'a dirty look'. I guess you'd have to be there. My coach is the nicest person ever. It was hilarious.

Another time, this girl was going up for a backrow attack and she took out one of our hitters and then they both fell on the setter. It was the funniest thing ever to see because the front row player didn't know she was coming.

Motivating- I play club. We haven't been soing so well. We lost all our games in one tournament. But, last weekend we killed everyone with scored like 25-4. We ended up taking first. It was awesome.

Answer 2

lol..a humerous time on my volleyball team was a game when i wasnt paying attention to one of my teammates and they bumped the ball to me and i was the setter and i accidently caught it in my hands cause my reaction was too slow D:

inspiring- basically all the women in my family on my mom's side play vball. my mom told me a story that when she was little she watched my grandma play vball at a college and she wanted to be just like her so she grew up learning how to play and now its her favorite sport and its mine too cause she taught me. its a hobby we share together and everytime we play outside we end up having a good time and laughing :]

learning- the time my vball coach told me how to do a float serve correctly...the first few times i was like what?! i do it fine... lol then i realized that i was being overconfident and i listened to his advice and after a couple practices i know how to master it now and its really fun to do.

hope this answers ur question!

xoxo

Answer 3

It's interesting to note - the laws of physics applying to volleyball.  Like at the net - when equal and oppositie forces meet - they can cancel each other out.  The spiker versus the blocker - players use to this face-off, take advantage of being late and winning, or simply carry on, with picking up the volleyball after it drops straight down.  And when you rush in to do a save - you're adding your momentum onto the volleyball normally - but you can minimise this (and therefore gain control) by slowing down, just before contact with the volleyball.

And with the spiker/blocker confrontation, it's the case of sticky hands - seeing who can be on top without touching the net.  A big player obviously has the advantage, and often takes advantage of that - but sometimes you'll see someone able to show that timing is everything, even though that person may be small or that of a woman (say versus a guy).

Volleyball, especially played for fun - and not for serious competition - often ends up being physical humor ie. physical comedy - in which players can do some wild and wacky moves in playing volleyball - making it a very fun and funny sport.  Played with a soft lightweight volleyball, it becomes even more so... With foot saves being legal - it becomes even more funny...

Answer 4

humorous-i was serving and hit a girl in the back of the head she then fell into another person and she fell into the net and somehow the girl that fell into the nets pants were down wen she stood back up :D

motavating-ummmmm i have none really

inspiring-i started on a team for the first time with NO experience watso ever and i played for a couple weeks practiced my butt of and i was one of the best players on my team

Answer 5

i was giving the ball to the other team under the net and instead of rolling it, i bounced it. Then the ref called over the captain and said if anyone does that again then they would get a yellow card.

I didn't even kno there was a yellow card in volleyball! Wait, is there?

Answer 6

one time during practice we were doing this drill 4 vs 4 but you could only hit 10s and our middle back dug a ball, but it was too close to the net so our setter dinked it to try and get it over the net and it rolled across the top of the net for like 5 seconds. haha. you had to be there

Answer 7

I will share two humorous plays that I did.  Or should I say embarrassing moments for me.

I was playing in a sand tournament.  I was serving.  I toss the ball.  A sudden gust of wind blew the ball from in front of me to almost behind me.  Being the excellent athlete that I am (attempt at a joke), I hit the serve anyway.  It went behind me.  The serving line is 30 feet from the net and my serve ended up nearly 40 feet short.  

I was hitting right side.  The setter set the ball LOW.  It was below the height of the net when I got to the ball.  I planned on hitting the ball out of bounds while wiping it off the block.  The blockers had seen me do that play before.  They pulled back their hands.  I had already committed to hitting the ball out of bounds.  And I did.  It was the hardest I have ever hit a ball.  It went all the way across my court.   It went all the way across the next court and it hit the heater in the far corner of the gym and on the ceiling.  I missed the 30 foot spike by more than 50 feet.  I am guessing it would have been about 60 feet wide of my court had it not hit the heater in the ceiling.    

For inspiring, I will also share two moments.  

I referee Special Olympics.  For those of you that do not know, Special Olympics is for people with mental handicaps.  There is one player playing in the tournament that also had a problem with his left shoulder.  He could not use his left arm.  With just the use of his right arm, he plays volleyball.  He has a terrific topspin serve.  He uses just his right arm to do the forearm passes.  He sets with one hand and spikes.  He even blocks with one hand.  He plays better with one arm than most people do with two.

At another Special Olympics tournament, I was warned by the coach that one of her players had a severe mental handicap.  She apologized that he might do or say anything.  He was subbed in to serve.  He served and the other team won the rally.  The other team has the ball and is ready to serve.  I look and the one player that had just served for the other team is gone.  They only have 5 players.  I look and I do not see him.  Suddenly, I feel a tug on my pant leg.  He wanted to know if he scored a point.  I told him no.  His coach was sprinting across the court to get him.  She apologized, but I told her that he politely asked a question.  No problem.  The coach takes him back to the serving position.  He is very sad about not getting the point.  Later in the same game, we go through the exact same thing.  In the next game, he serves and his team wins the rally and scores the point.  I am waiting.  He just stands there this time.  I yell over to him to ask his question.  He understands and asks if he scored a point.  I told him yes he did.  He acted like he won the Olympics.  And the crowd went crazy as well.  His team was over there giving high fives.  The other team could not figure out why there was such a big celebration.  They crossed the net and gave him high fives as well.  

Good luck with your project.