Non-Body Contact Sport: Volleyball

CHAPTER-I

INTRODUCTION

Volleyball is a non-body contact sport. This sport is played in a medium size of court, with 12 players for a team. Normally the duration of this game is not a fixed one like football and hockey instead; its success is determined by number of sets, won by a team during the match. Physically the player of this sport is expected to be tall and explosive power as they have to play the ball over 2.5 meters from the ground. The movements in executing the skills and tactics in volleyball demands high level coordinative abilities to have perfection and success. For instance, while receiving the ball from the opponent court player has to apprehend span of the distance, speed and make them to accommodate the situation. For which,

In the individual psychological skills, apart from the heredity, environment has significant influence in nature. Thus the environmental conditions of people living in rural and urban areas are different from each other. People in rural area can have more social contact, cohesiveness, social responsibility, adjustment and so on as compared to people in urban areas, where as in the urban areas people are unknown to one another and they have more commitment and responsibility than the people of urban areas. Another factor is the mode of transports people prefer walking, rather than the automobile as compared to urban areas. in such a way rural based population may have chance to differ in physical and psychological skills than the urban areas, such a significant impact of domicile on psychological skills and psychomotor aspects is to analyses in the game of volleyball. Thirdly, the present study has to concentrate over the positional play; positional play in the game of volleyball is segmented into offensive play and defensive play. When positional wise analysed, the role of player in the game of volleyball, hots of them responsibilities even in the same of line of winning, the way to achieve the winning differs from one another. Such a basic variation in responsibilities may have significant impact in the possession of psychological skills, since it partially influenced by environment. In such a way, positional play may significantly influence on players psychological skill and psychomotor ability. Having these conceptual aspects the present study was carried out to study the impact of gender, domicile, psychological skills, psychomotor ability and skill performance variables of volleyball