Encourage posting net block? FIVB's new rules are controversial, 1 point may increase the risk of injury to players

According to a well-known media, the FIVB World Congress recently concluded some changes to the rules of the volleyball game to improve the smoothness and attractiveness of the game. It will be implemented on January 1, 2022. The contents of this modification include: 1. Free agents can act as captains on or off the court; 2. After players on the court are expelled or disqualified from the game, substitutions are still allowed regardless of whether they have exhausted 6 substitutions. Go on the field; 3. The save area is expanded to cross the entire scoring range (previously limited to the own scoring table area); 4. The blocker is allowed to touch the ball at the same time on the opponent's offensive net side.

For these four new rules, I will analyze them one by one. personally believes that : Only the fourth point is the focus of the team's head coach for players to do. Therefore, it will appear frequently in games after 2022.

First, although the freeman captain has one more "free" function, it does not help the team well when off the court. The second point is that as long as one of the players on the field (main player) of a team is expelled or disqualified, even if the 6-place limit for substitution has been reached, the team is still allowed to substitute on the field. This is the depth of the bench. Thick teams have an advantage. The third point is very tasteless. Even if the save area is expanded to the opponent's scoring table, the spike is now fast, and it is difficult for the defending player to run from his own area to the opponent's area and successfully pick up the ball and return the line. Must pass inside the sign post. Therefore, all the first three points of the new rules cannot improve the fluency and viewing of the game.

However, the fourth point is different. The expression "allowing a blocker to touch the ball at the same time on the opponent's offensive net" means that the closer the blocker is to the net to block and reach out to the net, the more likely it is to touch the ball at the same time as the offensive player, which means that the blocker is encouraged to stick to the block. . In this way, at the moment of offensive volleyball, it will undoubtedly increase the probability of block scoring and block support and organization of defense, thereby improving the fluency and viewing of the game. Although this move of the FIVB is well-intentioned, it also increases the possibility of the blocking player stepping on the opposite offensive player's foot when landing, thereby increasing the blocking player's risk of injury.

fans who are familiar with volleyball know,When a blocking player makes a blocking action, the distance between his body and the net is usually between 30-40cm. Within this range, as long as the player masters the blocking technique and the take-off time and the regular line of the offense, he can basically block straight and large slash attacks or effective blocks except for the overhand, but it is basically useless for blocking small slashes. Due to the short line of the small slash, the strength and the speed, it is easy to break through the blocker, and the pilling rate of the defenders is also low, such as Zhu Ting and Li Yingying of the Chinese women's volleyball team, Boskovic of Serbia, and Egypt of Italy. Genu and so on, they are all very skilled at the technique of small slashes.

Faced with such a powerful attacker, the blocking players have to choose a block with a distance of less than 30cm to be more likely to block their small slash effectively. As long as the second pass is in place, the front row main attacker can hit the small slash, which is very likely to occur in the game. If it is a key point that affects the victory or defeat, the blocking player is more inclined to choose to post the block, which increases the risk of foot injury.

In the 2020 Super Finals, Diao Linyu’s post-blocking forced Li Yingying’s offense to change from a small slash to a big slash, causing teammate Zhang Changning, who was waiting at the small slash, to pounce while Diao Linyu posted the net The price is unfortunately injured. So, if the FIVB revised the rules this time, as a whole, whether it can improve the fluency and viewing of the game, it still has the opposite effect, wait time to verify it!

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