SITTING VOLLEYBALL – HOW TO GET INVOLVED!
Sitting Volleyball can be played by pretty much anyone. The only requirements are that you can sit unaided on the floor, move yourself around and you can track a moving ball through the air.
For international competition all athletes need to be classified by a British Paralympic Association Classifier.
| Nearest Team |
Surrey Gators |
| Training Location: |
Ashcombe Volleyball Centre (Dorking) |
| When |
Thursdays |
| Time: |
8pm |
| Coach |
Ashley Trodden (07938 627860) |
Background
Sitting Volleyball was developed during the 1950s in Holland as a combination of the German Game – Sitzball and volleyball. International sitting volleyball competitions have taken place since 1967 and the sport was then accepted into the program of the International Sports Organisation for the Disabled (ISOD) in 1978.
It was introduced as a Paralympic sport at the Paralympics Games in Arnhem 1980 and is now governed by the World Organization for Volleyball for the Disabled (WOVD).
In 2006, there were athletes from 48 countries practicing the sport. Paralympic volleyball is played in a sitting position with no classification system, apart from the minimal disability requirements of amputation or spinal cord injury etc. A high level
of teamwork, skill, strategy and intensity is needed to play well.
The court dimensions (10m x 6m) are slightly different to Olympic volleyball and the net is 1.15m high (1.05 for women) making the game considerably faster than the standing event.
Major tournament format is best of 5 sets, 8 teams playoff in the Men's and 6 teams in the Women's - 12 players in each squad. 6 Player's on each team on court, the ball hitter must always have pelvic contact with the ground when striking the ball, otherwise standard rules of volleyball apply.
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