Volleyball

Volleyball Rules – Competition Rules

Volleyball is a group of six playing sport, by 21 points where three games will be played. Volleyball now is a very popular sport, even in Malaysia online Sportsbook, you can bet on volleyball as well just like how you bet on football. Let me explain the rules of the game now.

 

A. Team Clothing
Team apparel including T-shirt, shorts and sneakers. T-shirt, shorts and socks must be uniform, neat and consistent color. For international competition, the team must use the same color shoes but a trademark can be different. T-shirt numbers must be 1-18, coat color number must be significantly different. In front, the number must be at least 10 cm wide while at the back, the numbers must be at least 15 cm high, the number of strokes must be in at least 2 cm width.

 

B. Prohibited Items
Banned on wearing items that may cause harm and is conducive to human. You can participate in the competition while wearing glasses, but all consequences caused is the individual’s responsibility.

 

C. Serve
To start the game, a player basically needs to serve the ball from behind the inline in an attempt to drive the ball into the opponent’s court. The main objective is to make the ball land inside the court (the opponent’s side). To make it difficult for the receiver to handle the ball, it is desired that you set the ball’s direction, speed and acceleration. If the ball lands directly onto the court or travels outside the court after being touched by an opponent, that serve is called an “Ace”. Practically, there are many types of serves you can learn such as; Underhand, sky ball serve, topspin, float, jump serve, and jump float.

D. Passing
The most important skills in volleyball is passing. The chance of delivering an effective attack would be low if you don’t get your pass right because it makes the set and hit suffer.
E. Rotation
This part is very important too because it can be very confusing if not fully understood. Basically, in volleyball, there are six players whereby three will be positioned in the front while the other three will be positioned in the back. The rules are simple, when you’re at the back, you can hit the ball on the third hit BUT you cannot jump in front of the 10-foot line. If you’re wondering, attacks are also known as “hits” or “spikes”.
F. Switching
It is possible for you to play the same position every play despite the mandatory rotation where you switch a place after the other team gets the ball. The only thing you have to do is to wait until after the ball has gone over the net on a serve to move to that spot.

Badminton

In my previous post, I've talked a little about badminton. Just some information about the equipment used for badminton. In this post, I would like to continue more about badminton. So here, I will talk about the scoring system and the strokes used while playing badminton.

SCORING SYSTEM & SERVICE

i) SERVING

   - The shuttlecock must pass over the net into the opponent's court when the server serves. Badminton is almost similar as tennis. The only difference is that a badminton serve must be hit below waist height standing inside their service courts and the shuttlecock is not allowed to bounce at all. The serve will be passed to their opponent(s) when the serving side loses.

ii) SCORING

   - The scoring is easy. Each games will be played to 21 points but if the scores are tied as 20-all, then the game will continue until the scores are two-points ahead. The game will be played up to a maximum of 30 points.

STROKES

FOREHAND & BACKHAND

Basically, forehand and backhand strokes are the basic strokes in badminton. To use them effectively, obviously you need to have a higher level of skills. What is a forehand stroke? If you're a right-handed person, your forehand stroke will be on your right while your left side is where your backhand stroke will be. Forehand strokes are hit with the front of the hand leading whereas backhand strokes are hit with the back of the hand leading. Players will attempt to play as many forehand strokes as possible because there are disadvantage in playing a backhand strokes. First disadvantage for a backhand stroke is that the player must turn their back to their opponent which restricted their view of them and the court. The second disadvantage is that a backhand stroke can't be hit with as much power as the ones used for a forehand stroke.

Badminton is very easy to be played as long as you have the equipment needed and enough players, you can start your game either in the court or at the field which is not really a good place to play badminton because of the wind. Sometimes, people are so addicted to the game that they started betting on it. Rarely on badminton game but other sports game.

They started to create their own group of friends and started betting but sometimes, people who got so addicted to the bet got broke and ran away which caused a lot of problems not only to themselves but to people who are involved at the same time. In this generation, everything is now advanced. With the knowledge or the internet, you could search for anything that you wanted. Want to bet on the game you're interested, fret not. Just online and search for the right and trusted site and off you go with your bet. 

Badminton

Badminton consists of a racket and a shuttlecock. It is played either by two opposing players as singles or two opposing pairs as doubles. The game is played in a rectangular court that was divided by a net in the middle of the court. To score a point however, a player strikes the shuttlecock with his racket so that it'll fly past the net and landed onto half of the opponent's court. A shuttlecock can only be strike once by each player for it to passes over the net to the opponent's area and the game ends once the shuttlecock has struck the floor.

RULES
COURT DIMENSIONS
The court is obviously in a rectangular shape which is divided halves by a net. Even though the court is marked only for singles play, it is also suitable for doubles play. The only difference during singles and doubles play is the serve length dimension. The width of the court is 6.1 metres but in singles play, the width is reduced to 5.18 metres. The length of the court however is 13.4 metres long. The net on the other hand is 1.55 metres high at the edges and 1.524 metres high in the center.

EQUIPMENT
i) Racket
    - Badminton rackets are lightweight weighing between 70 and 95 grams not including grip or strings. Light metals such as aluminium was used to make a racket before carbon fibre composite was adopted. Carbon fibre is stiff, has an excellent strength to weight ratio and also gives excellent kinetic energy transfer. Nowadays, rackets has an isometric head shape however if you want to find the traditional oval head shape racket, it is still available in the market.

ii) Strings
     - Strings to the rackets are very thin ranging from about 0.62 to 0.73 mm. Even though thicker strings are more durable, players prefer the feel of thinner strings.

iii) Grip
      - Depends on players to choose a comfortable surface to hold. There are two main types of grip; replacement grips and over-grips. Replacement grips are thicker while over-grips are thinner.

iv) Shuttlecock
      - A shuttlecock is formed from sixteen overlapping feathers embedded into a rounded cork base.

v) Shoes
    - Lightweight shoes are the most suitable type of shoes for badminton.