{"id":13481,"date":"2015-11-10T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=13481"},"modified":"2015-11-10T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-10T09:00:30","slug":"some-things-to-make-volleyball-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/10\/some-things-to-make-volleyball-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Some things to make volleyball better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There&#8217;s an article on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.volleycountry.com\/blog\/3-things-i-want-to-see-in-volleyball\">Volleyball Country<\/a> in which a contributor talks about three things he thinks would make volleyball better. This is from a spectator&#8217;s perspective Here they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Emotions<\/li><li>Live statistics<\/li><li>Better video challenge<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other two are fairly straightforward. In terms of emotion, the author&#8217;s idea is to allow players to basically taunt the opposition. For example, a blocker would be able to scream in the face of a hitter they just roofed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Maybe he doesn&#8217;t remember, but that sort of thing used to be allowed. At least it was in men&#8217;s volleyball. On the women&#8217;s side the rules of conduct were more strict in my remembering. I recall always thinking it was stupid that a girl would get a yellow card, or at least a warning, for something that boys did all the time. These days male and female players basically operate by what I remember were the expectations for girls when I was involved in high school volleyball in the late 80s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personally, I&#8217;m fine with things the way they are. I think there&#8217;s plenty of emotion in the sport. The author specifically mentioned football as an example of a sport with a lot of emotion. Problem is the NFL banned taunting years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For me, there&#8217;s a real difference in watching men&#8217;s volleyball live vs. watching it on TV. I much prefer the former because you experience the emotion, the athleticism, the power and speed, etc. in a way which has yet to really translate through the broadcast medium. I think women&#8217;s volleyball, with it&#8217;s generally longer rallies and lesser reliance on physicality, is a better TV\/streaming watching experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, the <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/trying-please-television\/\">quality of the broadcast<\/a> is a central factor, which speaks to the live stats and video replay improvement desires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few ideas for improving volleyball were offered up recently. I&#8217;m not sure I agree with the first one, but go along with the idea of better production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13804,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[198,298,335],"class_list":["post-13481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching-news","tag-media","tag-spectator","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}