Primero, Alyana Fae A.

10 Interesting Facts About Volleyball

1) fact number one volleyball was originally called mintonette as in badminton as
in the little sister of badminton.
2) The first volleyball that was used were actually just the inside bladder of a
basketball until spalding invented a dedicated volleyball in 1898 or 1896 or
1900 historians actually can't agree on the date
3) what they do agree on though is that it was world war ii that helped spread the
popularity of volleyball in the 1940s and the 1950s because the ymca - young
men's christian association went on a rampage to teach the sport to soldiers
that were stationed in germany as a way to promote christianity through the
world
4) but it wasn't until 1964 in tokyo that volleyball was introduced in the olympics
as a competing sport
5) as for the sport itself in 1999 rally scoring was implemented before that you had
to serve the ball to earn a point and then after rally scoring was implemented as
long as you're the one to finish the rally you can score the point the idea being
they wanted games to be more predictable in length and more tv friendly
6) because fun fact number six is the longest volleyball game on record lasted 75
hours and 30 minutes, but now with aforementioned rally scoring these kind of
crazy long games don't happen anymore
7) which is probably why approximately 46 million people play volleyball every
week in the us and worldwide 800 million people a week
8) as it turns out volleyball is actually the second most popular sport in the world
9) I also found out during my studies that a volleyball player jumps about 300
times per match
10)and last fun fact which i have never heard before in my life but it's kind of
funny, in volleyball a one-handed block do you know what it's called it's called a
kong as in a king kong have you ever heard that before, apparently it's named
after king kong because of the way that he swats the planes when he's hanging
off the empire state building in those movies