Enjoyable Volleyball

John is my elder brother. He is crazy about volleyball. He is ready to play it every minute. It happened three years ago when a new instructor arrived at our jay place. Martin was his name. He gathered all the teenagers around and started to teach them to play the game. He explained that it is adaptable to both indoor and outdoor conditions, on hard wood, sand, grass and asphalt. It may include a net or ignore it. It can be played solely for fun without concern for the scoring outcome, or it can be played at the highest competitive level. Honestly saying, gays of our jay place were able to play volleyball but they did not know its rules. Volleyball, like basketball, is one of the few ‘invented’ sport that has extended around the world. As it was invented by William G. Morgan (1895) from Massachusetts, it was named Mintonette originally. However, Morgan experienced with a net and a ball, players ‘volleyed’ the ball back and forth across the net and he changed the name to volleyball. Each team consists of six players. Today the game, as played by skilled players, does not consist of simply volleying the ball. The modern game takes as much stamina, speed, agility, conditioning and training as any sport when played at the competitive level. Of course, if played strictly for enjoyment and fun, it requires substantially less effort, stamina and skill, for example, beach volleyball. Morgan wrote later: ”There was a need for a game which all age-groups could play, and above all I felt that this game should be enjoyable.” That time the object of the game was to keep the rally going, to keep the ball in the air, but today the object is just the opposite – to smash the ball to the floor so that the opposition cannot return it. The so called ‘power volleyball’, the game as it is played in top competition, is a sport of complex strategy and quick, well-conditioned athletes.