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University Daily Kansan, October 7, 1980
Game of volleyball, not players, invites injuries
By KEVIN BERTELS Sports Writer
In volleyball, it 'not whether you win
it or whether you can play the next
game.
Few sports offer the opportunities for injuries that volleyball does. When six players are crowded into a 30-by-30-foot square and when the nature of the game calls for diving on a hardwood floor or blocking at close range a ball being hit as hard as possible, injuries are almost invited.
But not by KU coach Bob Lockwood and his volleyball team. Though the game may invite injuries, it is also one where players should avoid injuries. Certainly no one can imagine a basketball coach telling his team to slow down so they won't get hurt. By the same token, volleyball coaches use pressure but teach techniques for safety.
Take, for example, one of the more obvious actions on a volleyball court that could cause injury—the dive. To the spectator, diving headlong to the floor appears to be the most dangerous move possible.
To the volleyball player, the move has become natural through training and repetition. Tina Wilson, a senior on the team, said yesterday that she had to
Knowing how to fall includes keeping the hips and knees on the floor, not always easy or possible, because they protrude further than the rest of the body. The result is bruises. Bruises are the result of dives, and they can be on every ball player.
"Every once in a while you hear the screech of skin on the floor, but usually they know how to fall," she said.
After many bruises and floor burns, the proper technique for diving onto a hardwood floor is perfected. But then a person falls into water and learns the learned techniques are flung away and all in-air dive is the only answer. Skin and bones hit the floor at the same time, and both the crowd and the player know where they are going to KU team trainer Renée Bulmer.
its components," she said. "It can be broken down into separate little parts. Then you have to practice those."
"THE IDEA IS for them to start out and slow up but most of the weight on their chest and stomach and arch their back and move up and arch their knees into the floor," Bulmer said.
As the trainer, she knows that is not always achieved.
"They sometimes get burns on their hips," she said. "As far as stomach and chest go, they don't give hurt. But they can to bump bones once in a while."
cording to Diane Schroeder, a senior on the team.
Shelly Fox and Fick Jill Stinson have a collision duri
Volleyball is a sport that invites injuries from divi
Injuries to fingers from blocking and floor burns
a hardwood floor are commonplace for volleyball pla
"Vollleyball is so much diving or rolling," she said. "If you don't dive right, you cut your chin open. I don't think there is a girl on our team who can cut your chin open. Eventually your body begins to adjust to the way to dive."
THE DIVE IS the most obvious on-court suicidal move, but not the most terrifying.
Most volleyball injuries come from players landing on something besides the flat part of the foot against the flat floor. Whether it is a ball, someone falls down or your own foot, chances are good that what goes up won't land where it started.
"Things such as net violations cause injuries, when one girl lands on the foot of a girl on the other side of the net. You can also stop her from should never go under the net. In practice, there are a lot of balls around. We make it policy that the girls yell "Uh, bump into the ball is moved. Those kind of incidents can be alert for and do to day-to-day."
But other things can cause injuries. A very common injury in volleyball is the finger sprain; volleyball's version of the jammed finger. The sprain often occurs when girls are blocking spikes at the net. The ball bends the finger back a
more finger injuries this year," Bulmer said. "You've got a girl spiking as hard as she can and you get a finger bent back too far."
Schroeder, who leads the team in warm-ups, and who helped Lockwood design the up-routine, says that the equipment is an important—they are indispensable.
"CONCERNING INJURIES, it's top of the list," Schroeder said. "Every injury that I can spot, if it isn't a freak accident, happened from not rotating the ankle or the knee or something. I think because of the physical difference, girls need to stretch more than guys."
One particular injury that hinges directly on stretching is tendinitis. The quick action of serving can wear on the shoulder, and often servers develop tendinitis, much like pitchers develop sore shoulders.
Patronize Kansan
"You use your shoulder for everything in volleyball." Lockwood
While serving, volleying and spiking,
and in the midst of any number of
situations that could cause injury, one
could assume that it was easy to
But from the first referee's whistle to the end of the match, fear must be put in the back of players minds, because volleyball is a game of seconds, and no one can win against an opponent.
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Phil Farmer's Riverworld is a grand concept where anyone in history can meet anyone. Heinlein goes one step further, and he goes to his genius him go to Barsoom and Oz, where they meet both Alice and Lewis Carroll. Heinlein himself and all his friends show up. Best of all, Lazarus Carroll himself's past characters join the fun.
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NADINE GORDIMER
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Gordimer lives in Johannesburg
South Africa, where her books are banned by the censors as immoral and seductive. She is an insightful, knowing woman, but she doesn't tightly into her stories we are almost unaware of its presence, yet we could no more pull that political thread out than we could separate the warriors from without destroying the material.
Many of her stories deal with the duality of life in modern Africa. "A Soldier's Embrace" concerns a liberal woman who has to learn how to homeward the old takes control, but find that too difficult. Far easier to go to a white-dominated country (implied but not expressed as South Africa) and work for the civil rights of women. She describes wines favorites. No less stunning is "Siblings" about a crayfish girl and the cousin who can let go of her love, or "Time Did," in which a mature woman tells herself and her lover that he will someday be a younger girl, less demanding minds.
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The Book of Jamaica is a novel disguised as a first person memoir. It suffers from 60 utterly superfluous pages of speculation on Errol Flynn's involvement in a jamaican murder (is this international dump-on-ERrol Flynn's workplace doesn't resolve a damned thing and Banks' clumsy style throughout) may not be a college teacher (as Banks) but somehow stringing clause after clause of pointless detail into sentences that run on farther than Rose in the Boston Batuation doesn't strike me as particularly good writing
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The bulk of the book concerns the
Don Snowden
Getting by on $100,000 a
nameless narrator's gradual immersion in black Jamaican culture and subsequent effort to bring together two semantic worlds, the dancers and the descendants of the Maroons prospective slaves who upon landing headed for the Jacamian interior and waged a 100 year guerilla war culminating in a battle with the British army you treat with the British cata799) The Book of Jamaica isn't very good but the rub is that Banks has tackled a good subject: the quandary facing a man accused of the explosive actions of his race but is irreversibly separated by color and culture from 'the others' he feels more philosophically in tune with. It seems that he potentially ich theme goes to waste.
Michael Thewell set out to write a Jamaican novel, not a novel about Jamaica, and the *Hunter They Come*, like Perry Hertzell's class film of the same name, is based on the exploits of an archaeologist who well follows Hertzell's script in tracing protagonist Martin boy development from naive county to street-wise urban hustler, ruse singer, ganga dealer and cop-killer hero, but this is a far cry from the novels being cut out these days.
Thewell's crucial contribution is an extensive account of the events and beliefs shaping him as he grows up in the English-speaking background for the emotional and ethical dislocations of life in the modern city. Thewell also wisely advises the reader to not panic, it only takes about 50 pages (maybe 100 for regurgitate nephrops) to adjust to the rhythm and phrasing, king the book infinitely more authoritative.
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