Imagine a struck ball thus hard it come towards you at a speed of 110 miles per hour! The ball moves so fast you can hardly see it. Your work must obtain under this flash of white and pass it exactly to the suitable team-member. It, alternatively, then passes the ball until a spiker which jumps high in the sky and smashe this mobile with enormous speed above the net and in your adversaries ' court.



It is volley ball as played by some of the largest athletes in the world today. The game is played every year in more than sixty countries and by more than fifty million people. In the countries such as France, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Russia, Japan, Mexico, and Brazil, the matches of championship draws to compete crowd and much of time exceeding those with the matches of tennis shoe of football and the United States.

If popular makes become volley ball that it is arranged thirdly in the world like sport r'cr?ationnel of team. In at least twenty-five countries it is evaluated like principal competing sport. Perhaps the greatest advance occurred in 1957 when the international Olympic Committee identified volley ball like official Olympic sport.

Volley ball was played in the 1955 plays Pan-Americans in Mexico City and in the 1959 plays Chicago Pan-Americans. The 1958 Asian plays held in Tokyo comprised the exceptional volley ball, which attracted large crowd. Championships 1956 of volley ball of the world in Paris drew from the teams of twenty-seven of the countries and filled OF Sportes de Palais on several occasions of crowd of twenty-five thousand people. The championship of the others world occurred in Rio de Janeiro in 1960.

In the United States volley ball is played relatively little like sport interscholastic and inter-university. However, the sport develops, and the sporting directors in the schools and the universities seek manners of adding volley ball to their competing programs. Championships of college of state of catch of Wisconsin, of New York, of Florida, of Texas , and Pennsylvania.

The colleges of Los Angeles held their first championships of city for boys and girls in 1959. The catholic organizations of youth finance great programmes of volley ball in Pennsylvania and southernmost California. The official guide of volley ball 7959 enumerates the universities and the universities of eighty-nine, which have teams of varsity or representative. * The play is one of the intramural sports strongest in the universities and the universities. Volley ball was always an important activity among * J Edmund Welch, ED, guide of volley ball of 1959 civils servant (Bern, Ind: Printer of USVBA), p. 141.

YMCAs, where the play was invented and consolidated; Jewish social centers; city and departments of industrial recreation; and American Turners.

The forces armed with the United States are one of the large instigators of this sport. The army and the Air Force invited the exceptional trainers to lead private clinics in the whole world. Their ordering and championships of All-World are tournaments run with the greatest attention with the color, the ceremony, the adapted process, and the spectacular call.

The indicative one of interest that the armed forces have in volley ball is the following report/ratio submitted by commander Gen. Herbert B Powell with championships 1957 of All-Army.

Volley ball is an integral part of the sporting program of army, and is strongly effective by establishing the team work required in our military efforts to gain success in the combat. This activity develops the keenness eye, of muscular coordination, and physical capacities necessary for the alert and aggressive soldier of today. By gaining the line to represent your order in this competition, one showed it that you reached the attributes above, and I offer my congratulations to you.

Volley ball is an extremely desirable sport judged by almost any of these criteria used in activities of evaluation in a physical education or a program r'cr?ationnel. The game sufficiently vigorous, is so correctly played, to develop the organic power; it claims the development of a high degree of coordination neuromusculaire; while a spare activity of time it must be arranged close of the top in the list of plays, since it can in a satisfactory way be played surplus a so long period of the life of the one ; and, in conclusion, the play stresses the importance of the co-operative effort, of this fact helping to develop an important quality of the good citizen.