Feel like playing volleyball on a rainy, windy or a really hot day? Do you have access to a racquetball court? Well then you are all set to play Wallyball! As the name may have suggested, wallyball is volleyball (mostly) played in an indoor court with walls.\u00a0 <\/span>Specifically, a racquet ball court.<\/p>

The sport was invented by one Bill Dejonghe at the Calabasas Racquetball Court in California back in 1979.\u00a0 <\/span>As with some other sports I have written about, Bill came up with idea to get more people to the club during the summer months.\u00a0 <\/span>Over time, it has become equally popular in the Eastern states during those harsh winter months.<\/p>

However, the credit to popularising the sport and bringing it to the mainstream (in the states) goes to Joe Garcia -a professional at the same club.\u00a0 <\/span>As a result, many even end up crediting Joe with inventing the sport. So, please do remember Bill when this happens.<\/p>

If you are still there and wondering – why wallyball and not just indoor volleyball? Then read on. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span>The most important aspect of wallyball is that you can hit the ball off the walls like squash or racquetball.<\/p>

As per the American Wallyball Association (AWA) a game is played between teams of 2-4 players each.\u00a0 <\/span>A standard Racquetball court is used with a net in the centre.\u00a0 <\/span>A match consists of 3 games of 15, 18 or 21 points.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Not surprisingly, general skills and strategies of volleyball apply to wallyball as well.\u00a0 <\/span>However, there is a stark difference while striking the ball.\u00a0 <\/span>Unlike volleyball, players cannot place curve on the ball via spiking or the paintbrush technique.\u00a0 <\/span>Spin can only be imparted by hitting the center of the ball.<\/p>

I imagine players have over time found innovative means to impart spin on the ball while staying within the rules.\u00a0 <\/span>And believe me when I say it, there is strict enforcement of rules (as far as tournaments organised by the AWA are concerned) with regards to the manner in which the hands\/arms contact the ball.\u00a0 <\/span>Those guys are serious about their wallyball.<\/p>

While serving, the ball can hit the side wall (once) but not the back walls.\u00a0 <\/span>Like volleyball, a team gets three hits (excluding wall touches) to the\u00a0 <\/span>get ball over the net back to the other half of the court. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The scoring system is slightly different and referred to as speed scoring.\u00a0 <\/span>A point is scored on every service up to the point where one team reaches the “freeze point.” Once that occurs, a point is awarded on the next side-out and from that point on, each team must serve to score a point. The “freeze point” varies depending on the number of points needed to win a game. The freeze point is three points fewer than the number of points needed to win a game (Source: Wikipedia).<\/p>

Ensuring that the ball doesn’t go out of bound or violate any rules must require amazing skills.\u00a0 <\/span>Hand- eye coordination must be equally important.\u00a0 <\/span>During gameplay, the ball can hit any number of\u00a0 <\/span>walls or ceiling on your side of the court during the three hits which are allowed.\u00a0 <\/span>But the single wall and no ceiling rule applies once the ball is crossing over the net.<\/p>

The sport has not garnered a lot of international interest yet.\u00a0 <\/span>Possible due to the fact that racquetball courts are not very common outside America.\u00a0 <\/span>I suppose you could play on a squash court with some modifications to the markings.<\/p>

All in all, it sounds like a really fun and exhiliarting sport and one which should be much more popular globally.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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