Vas's Volleyball Page

I've been playing volleyball for about 30 years and during that time I co-founded the volleyball club at Aberystwyth University, co-founded the Welsh Open Volleyball Tournament and became a grade IV National Referee and Level I National Coach.

Main parts on this site:

Clickable map of volleyball clubs in the UK
Aberystwyth University Volleyball Club alumni
The Welsh Open
Simplified Volleyball Rules should take between 10 to 20 minutes to understand and include just enough of the rules to let you start playing & enjoying (The full rules would take many hours of studying)
Volleyball injuries & their prevention

Downloads

For coaches: single sheet showing a volleyball court from above in PDF format or in Word6 format*
For coaches: single sheet showing 6 volleyball courts in PDF format or in Word6 format*
For coaches: single sheet showing 2 half courts in PDF format or in Word6 format*
For coaches: single sheet showing 6 half courts in PDF format or in Word6 format*. These could also be cut up and used as rotation slips.

volleyball court — Thumbnails of the downloads

[*If these do not download properly try right clicking on the link and choosing 'Save Target As'(Internet Explorer) or 'Save Link As' (Firefox)]

New Rules

For those that haven't played volleyball since the last century, the new rules suggest that the new game is going to be very different.

Only one attempt at service.
The ball can touch the net on service.
Any part of the body can be used to 'hit' the ball - that's right, you can even kick it!
A set is played to 25 points with rally scoring and the winner needing 2 clear points.
The server can serve from anywhere along the back line and does not take part in the starting rotation.

New New Rules: 2009-2011

Can now have 2 liberos per team
Most, BUT NOT ALL net touches are no longer faults

On a personal note, I believe the easing of net touch rules will lead to attacking players and blockers jumping further into their opponents court thus leading to significantly more ankle injuries.

New Improved New Rules: 2011-2012

Minor changes, mostly about re-assigning liboros when players are injured
...... the details can be found on the FIVB web site.

New Extra Improved New Rules: 2013-2015

...... the details can be found on the FIVB web site.

Despite all these changes, in practice, the structure of the game is very much as it was.

External Links

Volleyball England a re-branding of the (EVA) English Volleyball Association
Fédération Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) are the world governing body for volleyball
Volleyball Drills Archive
Volleyball .com
Todd's Volleyball Pages - lots of ref'ing information here
Volleyball News group Dominated by the US (but whose fault is that?) this is a lively debating forum for all things volleyball
Confédération Europénne de Volleyball

UK Associations & Leagues

Northern Ireland Volleyball Association
Northern Ireland Craigavon Aztecs Volleyball Club
Volleyball Association of Ireland

Jersey VA

Tournaments

Misc Links - Shops, Newsletter, Free software, Games

Sportset Shop (Dorset)
Sports Warehouse Shop (Edinburgh)
Prosport International Shop (Nottingham)
Newitts Shop (York)
Take the hassle out of running tournaments & leagues: Volleyball Manager supports the planning, processing, and documentation of volleyball tournaments and leagues [free software]
BoomBoom Beach Volleyball [computer game] (plays in the Web Browser using Flash)
Crab-ball [computer game] (plays in the Web Browser using Flash)
Beach Volleyball [computer game] (uses Flash)
Gav Volleyball game [computer game]