University Daily Kansan, October 7, 1980
1. 2013年11月26日 星期四
Game of volleyball, not players, invites injuries
SCOTT HOOKER/Kansan staff
shelly Fox and Jill Stinson avoid a collision during volleyball practice yesterday. Volleyball is a sport that invites injuries from diving, serving, spiking and colling. Injuries to fingers from blocking and floor burns and split chins from diving on the hardwood floor are commonplace for volleyball players.
By KEVIN BERTELS Sports Writer
In volleyball, it's not whether you win or lose, it's 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 of the few sports that requires coaching to 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 ask for aggressiveness 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 learn each small part of the dive and then put them all together.
"YOU HAVE TO BREAK it down to
its components," she said. "It can be parts.
Then you have to practice those.
After many bruises and floor burns, the proper technique for diving onto a hardwood floor is perfected. But then a ball is hit hard and all the newly learned techniques are flung away and an all-out dive is the only answer. Skin and bones hit the floor at the same time, and both the crowd and the player know it was not proper technique, according to KU team trainer Renae Bulmer.
"Every once in a while you hear the screech of wind on the floor, but usually not from a window."
Knowing how to fall includes keeping the hips and knees off the floor, not always easy or possible, because they protrule further than the rest of the player. In addition, Bruses are the result of dives, and they can be seen on every ball player.
"THE IDEA IS for them to start out slow and put most of the weight on their chest and stomach and arch their back into the floor. 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 get hurt. But you can't bump bones once in a while."
Just as boxers and hockey players
play, players know about split, chin,
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cording to Diane Schroeder, a senior on the team.
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"Voleyball 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 dive in 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 painful.
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 someone 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 another girl." Lockwood said. "We stress that girls should never go under the net. In practice, there are a lot of balls around. We make it policy that the girls yell at the ball and then throw the ball is moved. Those kind of things you can be alert for and do from 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 bit further than it is supposed to go, and a finger sprain has occurred.
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 warm-up routine, says that the company is an important—they are indispensable.
"We have been running into a few
"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.
"You use your shoulder for everything in volleyball." Lockwood wood
While serving, volleying and spiking, and in the midst of any number of situations that could cause injury, one should not惊慌 it was easy to develop fear, also.
But from the first referee's whistle to the end of the match, fear must be put in the back of players minds, because it can cause some of them to hesitate to contemplate fear and injury can only hurt the team's chances for victory.
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