Republic of the Philippines

BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY

Pablo Borbon Main Campus I, Rizal Avenue
Batangas City

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

Essay Test

In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements in
PE 104 – Team Sports
Second Semester, A.Y. 2019-2020

March 15, 2020

VOLLEYBALL
1. When does a team rotate?
In volleyball, to keep the game running smoothly, the team must properly understand the
technique for rotation. This sport consists of six players inside the court for each team. The
service order is not random and at the beginning of the game the players line up in a specific
position where they need to maintain that order during the game. Each player starts in a specific
location but these locations are not to be confused with the player positions (setter, middle
blocker, outside hitter, libero). The locations are your starting positions which means that it is
where you start before the ball is served. With the exception of libero, each player will rotate to
each location in a clockwise manner before each serve.
First, know the six court positions wherein each team’s side of the volleyball court will
be filled with two rows of three players each, making for a total of six spots. Though the players
rotates clockwise, the positions are labelled counter-clockwise. These are the positions: Position
1: the right back, where the serving player is; Position 2: the right front, just in front of the right
back; Position 3: the middle front, to the left of the front right; Position 4: the left front, which is
to the left of the middle front; Position 5: the left back, behind the left front; Position 6: the
middle back, behind the middle front. Second, know your position. Your court position is where
you are standing on the court that may change with every rotation and your position in the team
is your set role that does not change. Third, know when you rotate. You rotate when you side-
out. When the other team has the serve but your team wins the point, it is called a side-out. The
rotation is clockwise in volleyball. That if your team your team wins a point when the other team
is serving, then the front right moves to the right back and becoming the new server.
Furthermore, if your team is serving and win another point, you do not rotate and will stay in the
same position.
To sum it up, whenever your team wins a point on the other team’s serve, your team get a
chance to serve again. And before your team serves, it rotates in a clockwise direction, where
right back, the server, becomes middle back; the right front becomes the right back and now the
server; the middle front becomes the right front; the left front becomes the middle front; left back
becomes the left front; the middle back becomes the left back. Thus, your team won’t rotate
again until there is another side-out.
2. What is the servers’ primary responsibility?
Volleyball basics include learning about volleyball skills and the roles of each player on
the team. A point or rally begins when one team serves the ball and this makes the serve the first
opportunity for a player to score a point. In volleyball, whatever your role and whether you are a
middle blocker or a setter, with the exception of libero, every player will end up in the right back
position and get to put the ball in play. The player serving the ball must stand behind the end line
or restraining line at the back of the court until after they have contacted the volleyball.
The object of the game is to attack. The server has 5 seconds to begin the serve from the
time the official signals the serve with a whistle. A good serve must land on the line or inside the
court of the opposing team. If any of the ball touches the line, it is considered to be “good” and if
the ball lands out and is not touch by any other player on the receiving team before it hits the
ground, then a side out is called. And a serve may also touch the net as long as the ball lands
inbounds, this is a let serve.
Hence, every server’s responsibility is to get the ball over net and also hit it over within
the lines nothing beats a serve with a great velocity and impact that no one can receive the ball
from the receiving team, a service ace.
3. Blocking is crucial on defense. List possible reasons on why a team use blocking in a
game?
In volleyball, players used different techniques in a play and one of that referred as block
to prevent the opponent from a successive attack hit. A block technique is used to deflect all the
ball coming from an attacker, that’s why it is crucial on defense. And to perform block, players
jump and reach high beyond the net with their hands and stop the ball from coming across. Not
only does this limit the available space for the hitter to aim, but if blocked, the ball has a chance
to fall harmlessly to the ground for either a point or to regain the serve. Only the front row
players are allowed to complete a block, but at the moment of the contact of the ball, a part of the
body must be higher than the top of the net.
To be an effective blocker, you need to stay in balance position ready to anticipate. The
blocker is trying to block the ball back into the opponent’s court and volleyball teams may have
different blocking strategies. One player may use a blocker to just take up space so that the
defensive players can cover the rest of the court that the blocker isn’t depending or an advanced
blocker may just try to deflect the ball to a teammate just to keep the ball in play.
There are different reasons why a team uses a block in a play, whether it is to completely
shut the ball out or reduces the balls’ momentum for easier receive, it may look as a defense
mechanism but it can also be an offense one, where the block makes a point. When the blocker
get a wipe or a clean block that the opposing team cannot return. Middle blocker is the blocker
that moves from the middle of the net to block and they are often tall and quick because they
have the responsibility of depending against both the middle and outside hitter. There is also a
strong side blocker that blocks coming from the right side of the court and help to depend the
strong hitter. The offside blocker is a blocker at the net that’s away from the opponents attack.
They pull off the net to help defend the attack or get in ready to approach a hit. Closing the block
have the responsibility of the assist blocker is to join the primary blocker to create an
impenetrable block and this is called closing the block or sealing the block because the ball can’t
fit between the two individual blockers. Soft block is not a block to clearly stop the opponent
hitter to attack but is used to at least touch the ball to reduce its momentum and make it easier to
receive. If a team blocks are able to read hitters well, it can make a defense a lot easier that it
become a lot easier to dig. Hitters may become confused and not to know where to hit if they are
being read. And blocking the ball by reading can cause hitters to make poor decisions and give
diggers easier balls to dig and easier shots to chase down. A good blocking gives the opponent
attack a more predictable one.