What is Rocball? Rocball is the sport that forced the FIVB to change the rules of play from side-out to rally
point scoring volleyball. Rocball is the first sport to include the kicking of
a volleyball, allowing both teams to score points on the serve and during play
action, use a multiple point scoring system, include goals for three point
scoring, use a quarter/set system of play where a team could win by most points
scored, and penalty points. Rocball has been an annual sporting event in
Micronesia since 1983.
Rocball news releases and game rules have been sent out
internationally to organizations such the IOC, volleyball federations of over
forty different nations, international sport federations, colleges and
university around the world since 1985. The spot of Rocball has included the
FIVB of its ground breaking rule changes since 1985. Rocball was highlighted on
CNN World report in 1993 1nd 1994. FIVB started adopting Rocball rules of play
in 1995 with rally point scoring and allowing players to kick volleyballs.
How did the idea of Rocball start? Rocball is a game derivative of volleyball with
its roots of play founded the in the Meso-American sport of Tlachtli. The
actual game of Tlachtli involved passing a ball from side to side over a low
wall without it touching the ground. If the ball fell to the ground, a team
would win a point and vice versa. If you struck the ball with an incorrect part
of the body, you could lose points for your team. However, the real purpose of
the game was to get the ball through the hoop on a wall above either side of
the court. The team that did this won, irrespective of the current score of the
game. As a game, Tlachtli has often been described as a combination between
volleyball and soccer. After the creation of volleyball in 1895 and prior to
1980, athletes who played this kind of team net sport played under two
different general restrictions. In volleyball, players were not allowed to hit
the ball with any part of the body below the waist. In the Asian sport of sepak
takrau players were not allowed to use their arms or hands to touch or hit a
ball. In the Micronesian sport of Rocball, players are allowed to hit the ball
with any part of the body as long as a player doesn’t carry or hold the ball.
And, as in Tlachtli, there is a situation in which a team can lose a point and
both sports have scoring areas other than the court floor:
The sport of Tlachtli had vertical loops 8 or 10 feet high on a wall above either side of
the court, and Rocball has vertical areas for scoring with six by twelve foot
goals located ten feet behind each court. Fundamentals: A quarter/set game of
Rocball with 25 points a set, takes a little less or a little more than one
hour to complete. In Rocball, when a player serves a ball over the net, the receiving
team, the defensive team, has two hits to return a served ball. When a served
ball is successfully returned over the net, the offensive team has the first
five hit play on the ball, and each team is allowed up to five hits to score
point/s. *** Variation: After two hits off a served ball, subsequent plays are
five hits for the offensive team and three hits for the defensive team until
point/s is scored. This system of play gives the serving/offensive team more of
the benefits of the side-out system of play, where the team with the serve had
scoring advantage and the receiving team worked against the score for the
advantages of the serve. 1. It makes a difference: When a team is allowed five
hits, it has more than just a couple of advantages over their opponents with
the traditional three hit play: a. It allows a team to recover from a missed
played ball after the third hit. b. It allows a team more opportunity to set up
for a multiple point, backcourt score. c.It allows a team more flexibility to
move the ball from one side of the court to the other. d. It allows a team more
choices of when to spike off a set ball. e. It allows more different types of
strategic plays. f. It allows a team to break the predictable bump, set, spike
routine. g. It defines the difference between which team is playing offense and
defense. h. It forces the three hit, defensive team to adjust more as a
reactionary force. i. It creates longer volley and rally plays. j. It breaks up
the mind-set and monotony of the three hit count for players and spectators. 2.
The team with service is the offensive team and points scored by a team with
the serve are defined as volley points: Volley = discharge and attack 3. The
team receiving the serve is the defensive team and points scored by the
defensive team are defined as rally points: Rally = mobilize and recover. 4. By
identifying a team’s points as either volley or rally points, the game
incorporates different perspectives and fosters more diverse innovative
relationships between the sport, its players, and teams. Goals: To develop a
comprehensive team net sport that has a reasonably predictable game time of
competitive activity. Objectives: 1. Improve the Physical Elements: A. redefine
the significance of the ten foot line. B. redesign backcourt lines of play C.
include vertical areas for scoring points 2. Improve the Competitive Elements:
A. implement unrestricted methods of hitting and kicking B. allow backcourt
players attacking the net. C. increase number of hits 3. Improve the Intellectual
Elements: A. Restructure the scoring system so that teams can win a game by
total points scored. B. Restructure the scoring system to include multiple,
optional, and penalty point scoring. C. Restructure the sport for backcourt
scoring. Purpose: 1. To provide a wider variety of physical and intellectual
challenges in a team net sport that will offer its athletes more frequent and
different opportunities to distinguish themselves as a team. 2. To create more
diversity in a team net sport’s competitive causes of action and reaction so
that individuals, either by spontaneity or proficiency, would be able to better
distinguish themselves through their athletic skills. 3. To be able to offer
team net sport enthusiast and spectators in general, new stimuli in a familiar
sport with consuming and vicarious experiences.
James Feger
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