Volleyball

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Volleyball is a great sport that helps social skills and team work. Physically, volleyball helps a person's agility, hand eye coordination, and also builds on explosive power of both the upper and lower body. Volleyball is a total body activity that can be played by people of all ages and skill levels.

THE SERVE
1. Server must serve from behind the restraining line ( end line ) until after contact. 2. Ball may be served underhand or overhand. 3. Served ball may touch the net. 4. First game serve is determined by a volley, each subsequent game shall be served by the previous game loser. 5. If the serve is unsuccessful the first time a team gets one LET allowing them to reserve.

**SCORING**
1. Only teams who are serving can score points. 2. If a team who is not serving wins a volley they must rotate and now obtain the serve. 3. A team wins a volley when the ball is hit more than three times on one side, the ball is hit out of bounds, a foul is committed by the opposing team, the serving team does not serve the ball in bounds and over the net, or if the opposing team lets the ball land in bounds on their side.

=**Playing the Game**= 1. Maximum of three hits per side. 2. Player may not hit the ball twice in succession ( A block is not considered a hit ). 3. Ball may be played off the net during a volley but not on a serve. 4. A ball touching a boundary line is good. 5. A legal hit is contact with the ball by a player body above and including the waist which does not allow the ball to visibly come to a rest. 6. If two or more players contact the ball simultaneously, it is considered one play and the players involved may not participate in the next play. 7. A player must not block or attack a serve.

BASIC FOULS
1. Stepping on or over the line on a serve. 2. Failure to serve the ball over the net successfully. 3. Hitting the ball illegally ( Carrying, Palming, Throwing, etc. ). 4. Touches of the net with any part of the body while the ball is in play. If the ball is driven into the net with such force that it causes the net to contact an opposing player, no foul will be called, and the ball shall continue to be in play. 5. Reaching over the net, except under these conditions: 6. Reaches under the net ( if it interferes with the ball or opposing player ). 7. Failure to serve in the correct order.
 * - When executing a follow-through.
 * - When blocking a ball which is in the opponents court but is being returned ( the blocker must not contact the ball until after the opponent who is attempting to return the ball makes contact).

=__**Volleyball Skills**__=

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