What are the Most Widely Used and Effective Attack Coverage Systems in Men’s Volleyball?

Abstract

In volleyball, attack coverage is one of the play actions most neglected in coaching and research. The purpose of this study was to find out which attack coverage systems are used by high-level men’s teams in different game situations and the characteristics of the most effective systems. We analysed 15 matches from the 2010 Men’s Pan-American Volleyball Cup, with a total of 1,415 coverage actions. Chi-square tests for independence, adjusted residuals analysis and calculations of standardised mean difference were performed. The results show that high-level men’s volleyball uses many coverage systems other than the traditional 3-2-0 and 2-3-0. At this level of play, the most frequent systems were 1-3-1 and 1-2-2, which occurred significantly often at the culmination of a third-tempo attack at the wing. The most effective systems consisted of three coverage lines, with fewer than five players covering the spiker and at least one player in the first coverage line, in both the attack and counterattack phases. Given the large number of coverage systems identified in different game situations, we recommend flexible, loosely structured training in these systems, based on a set of guiding principles that all players on a team must internalise for the specific position they are playing. Regarding the systems’ efficacy, the main watchword is that on each coverage line there should always be at least one player, but the first line should not be exposed.

Evaluating the time of the visual scene and its relationship to the values of some biochemical variables in the performance of the main section of the spiking and blocking skills in the volleyball

“…(Yacoub Abdel-Baqi -Hamza Fadel, 2020) Allows the player in the blocking operation to move the arms to the side towards the ball in order to intercept its movement, and the duration of the kinetic prediction depends on the time between striking the ball from the attacking player until it reaches the blocker player (Kuan et al, 2018). There was also a correlation between the time of the visual scene and the variable of the distance between the two hands, and this is because the player increases that distance if he notices that the attacking player is hitting the ball to the sides of the blocking and that the change is made by the attacking player through the movement of the arm away from The longitudinal axis of the body of the hitting player, and therefore increasing the distance between the hands is effective while maintaining the tension in the fingers so that the ball does not slacken and the ball crosses it, so coaches usually recommend players to maintain the tensile strength in the fingers of the hands, and in general the volleyball game is one of the games that need to be Great timing and correct prediction (Raúl Hileno et al, 2018).…”

Examining the Attacks After the 20th Scores in Volleyball According to Nationality and Positions

“…In today's volleyball, attack has become so remarkable that Sato et al developed a block machine for perfecting this skill, and tested its validity (Sato et al, 2017). During the attack, several coverage systems are used for getting the blocked balls into the game again (Hileno, Alcaraz, Busca, Salas, & Camerino, 2018). In another study, Costa et al indicated that efficiency of attack could change depending upon the double and triple block (Costa et al, 2014).…”

Influence of Contextual Variables on Performance of the Libero Player in Top-Level Women’s Volleyball

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