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Reaction times and target defence
In volley-ball the spectator's attention focuses naturally on the hits. From there, interpretations of the causes of success tends to remain centred on the hitting gesture. However the hit is only the most spectacular and attention grabbing part of a complex action. It is the last link in a chain of processes, some of which are visible but neglected...
React or anticipate
Imposing a time constraint as fundamental basis of the game brings us to differentiate the levels of response to this constraint. We can see a variety of behaviours from beginners to intermediate...
Representations of the target to defend and attack orientations
Player training from beginner to expert (from the most elementary one versus to the most elaborated game systems at six versus six) will cause an evolution of representations of the target to defend and of the organisation and intervention modes. We can identify the players' current representations, make them evolve and stabilise from real game situations...
Volley-ball and technique
Volley-ball is reputedly a "technical" sport. What does this statement mean? When looking in detail, we find that the use of this term refers to the fact that the skills used in volley-ball are very specific to this game. In other words, the skills acquired in everyday life or in other sports are not very useful to volleyball...
Learning situations, exercises, learning tasks...
Different terms will be used to describe the players' learning and training context sometimes diferent terms are used when we refer to the same reality. We do not propose here to make a theoretical presentation of the concepts at stake but simply to specify how and why we use certain terms...
Numbering of posts according to service rotation
Uncertainty / information / communication
It is a fact that the increase in information quantity has a direct influence on the reaction time and therefore on the efficiency of the action. Besides, continuity in the game rests on the ability of players to make themselves available as soon as possible for the coming phase of the game that is to say to anticipate...
The Spike
We develop here the tactical and technical aspects of the spike. This can seem complex for many pupils. However we think that playing very early on the timings, distances and angles allows the spiked attack to appear very early in various adaptable forms and not as a stereotype detached from the context...
Mechanics of hit acceleration
Here we are going to focus on a central question: how to give speed to the hitting hand to transmit some to the ball? At the same time we will relate this to the spontaneous productions of beginners...
Court types and organisation
If we need more courts we can define waiting posts of rise (or fall) between the courts and if necessary at the extremities. After the end of every match the winners change courts...
Position of the setter
Higher level teams play with a setter standing at the side. This is not a sign of complication but rather of simplification in the organisation. This is therefore also an advantage for beginner or intermediate players...
Commitment times
In a collective situation, time indicators allow to coordinate the actions and distribute the roles and tasks for each trajectory. These trajectory timings enable both teams to organise on each side of the net
Reading the trajectory
Trajectory reading is involved in all anticipation-coincidence tasks requiring to catch a moving object. Studies show that this type of skill is needed in many sports but also in every day life activities...