Volleyball: Change Your Scoring System for More Passing
Dick Moss, Editor, Physical Education Update.com
In beginners' volleyball games, the more aggressive,
highly skilled players usually dominate the play, receiving
the ball and immediately smacking it back over the
net. Niceties such as teammates and passing are often
ignored.
However, a simple variation in the scoring system of
such games can solve this problem. This change becomes a
competitive incentive that produces "cooperative game"
behaviour.
Change Your Scoring System
Allow the serving team to score between
one and three points, depending on the number
of teammates who contact the ball before it's
returned over the net.
For example, if a single player receives and
returns the ball back over the net, only one
point can be scored. If it's passed to another
player then returned, two points can be scored.
And if three players contact the ball before it's
returned, three points can be scored.
Play the game to 35 points to take the additional
scoring into account.
"Ball-hogs" are often the players who are most competitive,
and they will quickly realize that they'll have to pass
the ball if they want to win.
Reference: Dr. Charles Kuntzleman & Beth Kuntzleman, Fitness
With Fun, (Published for the National Board of the YMCA & the
YMCA Cardiovascular Health Program), Spring Arbor, MI: Arbor
Press, 1978.
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