With the purpose of determining the factor structure of explosive power, as well as the influence of each factor on situational efficiency, 56 young female volleyball players were tested using 14 tests for assessing nonspecific and specific explosive power. By factor analysis, 4 significant factors were isolated which explained the total of over 80% of the common variability in young female vol...

Volleyball games worldwide have developed into aggressive volleyball games involving various types of attacking techniques. Among the various attacking techniques, the moving spike is most likely to cause body imbalance. When volleyball players perform a moving spike, to acquire more time and space when hitting the ball, they typically change their attack angle, timing, and position continually...

OBJECTIVE In overhead sports such as volleyball, baseball, or tennis shoulder problems are very common. The aim of this study was to identify features which may correlate with shoulder problems in volleyball attackers. METHODS 30 competitive volleyball attackers (mean age 25 years) were included in the study; 15 were suffering from shoulder pain and 15 had no history of shoulder pain. The res...

PURPOSE This case study evaluated the effect of repeated lateral movement and jumping training on repeated effort ability in a group of national team male volleyball players. METHODS Twelve volleyball players were assessed on their volleyball-specific repeated movement and jumping abilities using a volleyball-specific repeated effort test (RET) before and after 12 weeks of training. The athle...

The purpose of this study is to develop an evaluation system for the executive judgment of volleyball referees. We present computer-assisted techniques to digitalize volleyball games, make judgments, and generate evaluation results. Through the help of senior volleyball referees, we first make classification to the recorded video volleyball games according to various foul situations and apply V...

BACKGROUND Shoulder pain is becoming increasingly problematic in young players as volleyball gains popularity. Associations between repetitive motion and pain and overuse injury have been observed in other overhand sports (most notably baseball). Studies of adult athletes suggest that there is a shoulder pain and overuse problem present in volleyball players, but minimal research has been done ...

The purpose of the study was to find out the differentials on passing ability between universal attackers and blockers of college level volleyball players. To achieve this purpose of the study 15 universal attackers and 15 blockers from various colleges were selected as subjects. The subjects who participated in St. Joseph’s inter collegiate volleyball tournament held at Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu, ...

The purpose of this research is studying and regulating indices of talent detection in the game of volleyball according to views of prominent volleyball coaches in Khuzestan Province. So, the researcher assessed opinions of all 100 active coaches in this province. The methodology is descriptive survey research which has been carried out with field method. Measurement material was five-value que...

The special environment in beach volleyball playing generates intense stimulation on human bodies, which is pretty helpful in improving the performances of many sports. Meanwhile, the nutrition supply is also showing its critical significance. Due to the altitude environment, a special requirement is imposed on the calorie and nutrition supplied to the bench volleyball players in training. Ther...

Present study examined the relationship between Service and Repeated Volley Skills among Volleyball Players. Total twenty five (N-25) female volleyball players their age ranged from 17 to 19 years were selected as subject from Navodaya Vidyalaya School, Sector25, Chandigarh. Service and Repeated Volley abilities were measured by administrating RussellLange Volleyball Skill Test. The data was an...