volleyball/wallyball

This past weekend I visited my girlfriend at her school where she plays on the volleyball team. Although the matches, games and sets are sometimes very very long to watch it does get excited at some points. When the score is tied 2 games to 2 and the next match wins, it can get pretty intense. Volleyball is a great sport to watch especially in this year's past Olympics. Watching the men and women's team play indoor/beach volleyball was very interesting. It is truly amazing to watch how high some of the players jump to spike the ball right at someone, and even more amazing to watch that person return it.

A game that I play back home with a lot of my friends is called wallyball. Not a lot of people have heard of it, and I had no idea what it was until about two years ago. It is a sport played on a racquetball court but with a net in the middle like volleyball. The rules and object of the game are still the same as volleyball: serving, volleying, setting, spiking. The only thing different is you can hit the ball as hard or as soft as you want off the walls on the court. If the ball hits three of the walls and touches the ground without anyone returning it, that counts as a point. You can play this game if you do or don't know how to play volleyball and it is really easy to pick up.

If volleyball wasn't the same season in high school as baseball I would have definitely joined and played. I find it to be a lot of fun and challenging. Being a physical education major, I took a class in volleyball and enjoyed playing and still continue to play anywhere. It is a good game to have fun with, or actually want to be serious and keep score.