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).