125 s volleyball, Hurrah!
While you were sleeping, volleyball celebrated 125 years old. Yes, yes, the official story goes, what 9 February 1895 , Comrade William Morgan, head of the youth organization of the Christian (YMCA) invented, what to do with this most Christian young people in the city of Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA.
Invented, probably, earlier, but on this day, according to witnesses, the gym is a tight grid of tennis on the unusual 196 sm sex. Initially, the game was called "mintonet" and, naturally, quite different from what, that we used to see. The ball could catch and throw, and the number of participants in the game is not limited - neither give nor take the proverbial "throwball".
But that's where the game has started, and began to develop. There was a strike on the principle of ball, Professor Alfred Halsted mintonet renamed in "flying ball" (at the volley - on a tape, ball - ball). In 1986, it held its first event, a year later secured the first rules. In the early twentieth century, the game spread out all over the world, reaching in the twenties to the USSR. What happened next, you some idea.
curious, that appeared after rugby, football, handball, tennis, baseball and basketball, volleyball managed to jump on most summer sports game in popularity. Strictly speaking, by the number of countries participating in the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) ahead of the International Football Federation (FIFA) - by as much as eleven countries! Though, of course, these figures do not reflect the real state of affairs - with the foot kicking a ball, nothing can be compared. And indeed the history of football has its roots directly back to the ancient Incas.
But now it's about volleyball - one of the most democratic, entertainment, Mind Sports. Someone says, it's a game of high - where is democracy? But there are many examples, when it does not solve the growth on the volleyball court, and with the introduction of the libero role his chance to get almost all. Entertainment due to the fact, points that draw takes place in a non-stop, while playing the episodes we fit into short, like a flash, but very exciting story.
In this case, volleyball - the most technically complex sport. Little or no training, anyone can try to play football, you can try to play without training in basketball or handball, but if you do not have a couple of years behind volleyball school, the game simply will not work! Decisions taken in volleyball for the fraction of a second, the ball in the professional sector for a long time exceeded the flight speed of one hundred kilometers per hour! This is the real space.
Progress flying ball in the past 125 Chron incredible. Yes there 125 years - volleyball is changing rapidly, with picking up speed every year, soaking up more beauty and entertainment.
The most dynamic game world marks a notable anniversary today - and we can only say thank you - from the XXI century to century XIX-th - William Morgan, Alfred Halsted and all those, who stood at the cradle of volleyball. This incredible invention, which eventually transformed into the meaning of life for hundreds of thousands, million people. You can endlessly list the names of the legends of the game, and the names of ordinary fans, those, who every night fills many gyms around the globe, no account shall be. All of us - a huge army, all we are today pleased to, we have a volleyball. Thank you and have a happy holiday!
