Volleyball (English volleyball from volley — «to strike a ball since summer» (also translate as "flying", "soaring") and ball — "ball") — a sport, command sports game. In the course of game two commands compete on the special platform divided by a grid, aspiring to direct a ball on the party of the contender so that it has landed on a platform of the opponent (to finish to a floor), or the player of a protected command has committed an error. Thus for the organization of attack it is authorized to players of one command no more than three contacts of a ball successively (in addition to a contact on the block). The volleyball is not contact, combinational sport where each player has strict specialization on a platform. The major qualities for players in volleyball are a spring ability for possibility highly to rise over a grid, reaction, coordination, physical strength for effective product of attacking blows. There are the numerous variants of the volleyball which has branched off from a principal view: Beach volleyball (the Olympic kind since 1996), Minivolleyball, Park volleyball (it is confirmed by congress FIVB in November, 1998 in Tokyo).
