this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2024
14 points (93.8% liked)

Olympics

282 readers
1 users here now

Everything related to the Summer and Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

Other communities you may like

Sports (general)

Sports (specific)

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
14
Olympics Day 15 Megathread (Saturday, 10th August) (aussie.zone)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Interesting. I didn't see very much of the beach volleyball. What was it about their style that was innovative?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's unfortunate, beach volleyball is a really fun sport to watch.

The overall idea behind the style is introducing systematic two-touch attacks to their game (normal beach volleyball is pretty much always played on three touches). This lets them create uncertainty on the second touch - as player 2 jumps as if to spike on the second touch he can choose whether to follow through or do a jumping set-up pass to his teammate (hence jump-set). With the opposing team forced to consider two simultaneous angles of attack, it's much easier to find openings.

You can read more about it here.