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  2. Volleyball - Wikipedia

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    The three front row players are all in attacking positions. As a result all six players act as hitters at one time or another, while two can act as setters. So the 6–2 formation is actually a 4–2 system, but the back-row setter penetrates to set. The 6–2 lineup thus requires two setters, who line up opposite to each other in the rotation.

  3. Volleyball offensive systems - Wikipedia

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    In volleyball, teams must have their players in a specific formation. [2] The players then rotate around the court clockwise whenever the team performs a side-out. There is a penalty for being out of rotation and the opposing team receives a point. There are three formations that are widely used in the sport, each having advantages and ...

  4. Float serve - Wikipedia

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    Float serve. The float serve is one of the types of serves in the game of volleyball. The serve involves hitting the volleyball in such a way to minimize the rotation of the ball, causing unpredictability in the ball’s movement and is akin to baseball's knuckleball. During this serve, the ball is moving in the air without spin, allowing drag ...

  5. File:VolleyballRotation.svg - Wikipedia

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    File:VolleyballRotation.svg. Size of this PNG preview of this SVG file: 383 × 598 pixels. Other resolutions: 153 × 240 pixels | 307 × 480 pixels | 491 × 768 pixels | 655 × 1,024 pixels | 1,310 × 2,048 pixels | 567 × 886 pixels. This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.

  6. Magnus effect - Wikipedia

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    Magnus effect on Roberto Carlos' infamous "banana kick" An animated diagram of a 12–6 curveball. The Magnus effect explains commonly observed deviations from the typical trajectories or paths of spinning balls in sport, notably association football, table tennis, [26] tennis, [27] volleyball, golf, baseball, and cricket.

  7. Volleyball jargon - Wikipedia

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    Zones are named 1 through 9 from left to right along the net with the setter occupying Zone 6; and the most common set heights are 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 (represented by a 0 in the notation). For example, a 10 set is a high ball to the left side, a 53 is a 3 foot high set to the middle of the court (in front of the setter), and a 61 is a 1 foot ...

  8. Knuckleball - Wikipedia

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    Knuckleball. Hall of Fame knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm shows how he placed his fingers before a pitch. A knuckleball or knuckler is a baseball pitch thrown to minimize the spin of the ball in flight, causing an erratic, unpredictable motion. The air flow over a seam of the ball causes the ball to change from laminar to turbulent flow.

  9. Volleyball variations - Wikipedia

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    Shooting volleyball court is 35 ft (11 m) and 70 ft (21 m) in length. Net height was 8 ft (2.4 m) before some years but nowadays the net height is 7.2 to 7.5 ft (2.2 to 2.3 m). The ball size is same to handball. Shooting volleyball is popular in Pakistan (Punjab) (Sindh) (Bloachistan) (KPK), USA and India, especially North Indian States.