For this assignment I decided to attend the volleyball tournament hosted at Berry in the Cage Center around 3:00 pm on Friday, September 10, 2010. There were 2 games going on at once and I am pretty sure that it was the best of three scrimmages. I stayed for three of the games that Berry played against Lagrange. Berry won all three games.
The nature of volleyball would make this type of movement a manipulative movement because the primary goal of the game is to manipulate the volleyball by using your hands to set, spike, and serve the ball. Just as most sports involve the use of both the gross and fine motor skills, volleyball certainly requires the players to know where their body is in relation to their environment in order to be able to get the ball over the net. Therefore, they must be able to move their entire body in a very quick, defined manner to cover the ball and play defensively. On the other hand, they constantly use their fine motor skills when they actually hit the ball over the net. When the volleyball players get ready for the ball to be set into motion, they do have a distinct stance, knees and back bent. Those motions definitely require stability in these types of stances in order to control their body and balance. I'm sure they also stretch their entire body before the game, which also requires defined stability. I did not observe a definite beginning and ending for the game, so I would probably classify this type of movement as continuous. One of the most interesting aspects of volleyball that I observe when seeing our lady vikings in the Cage is their ability to communicate effectively with their teammates. It's definitely one of those sports that requires you to understand who should get the ball and where they should stand in relation to the other players. Therefore I believe this characteristic of volleyball, along with the hand-eye coordination it demands, definitely categorize those types of movements as being somewhere in the middle of the cognitive and motor spectrum. I would classify volleyball movements as having somewhat of a predictable nature, while also being very unpredictable at times. This is due to it being indoors, yet the sport definitely requiring its players to be able to anticipate the next move of the other players.
For the two-dimensional systems:
I believe spiking required body transport as well as object manipulation, with quite a bit of environmental variation and context variation because it requires the players to no where their bodies are in relation to the ball in order to quickly hit the ball over the net. I know in volleyball that the players must learn how to fall correctly in order to avoid injuries. They usually attempt to keep rolling to avoid a landing that could cause them any injuries. Tumbling/falling would be environmental and context variation with body transport, yet no object manipulation is involved unless diving, reaching, or trying to save the ball. Running or moving quickly to get under the ball in order to set it up would require body transport, while manipulating the ball, with environmental and context variation. The stance that most of the players take before the server serves the ball over to the other side is when they have their knees and back bent. This movement is definitely more stable, having environmental variation (due to having to know where you need to stand in relation to your environment), but no context variation. When in their stance, the players' bodies are stationary, but there is the potential for them to have to manipulate the ball when it comes to them.
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