This study was designed to analyze the spiking approach of international top level men's players in their games, and to clarify when and how they start their approach and their steps. In this study, two attackers, who were in the match of Brazil versus Italy in 2006 Men's World Championships, were chosen as subjects. The time, distance and speed of each step which they took in that game were analyzed. Based on the attacker's view point, the game situation was divided into three phases- The 1st phase： getting leads to start the approach, The 2nd phase： getting visual information about the setter's movement The 3rd phase： moving to the point which the ball falls. In the 1st phase, attackers moved to starting point of the approach by using side step or two-step and stepped the first approach step called Timing step. In the 2nd phase, attackers stepped the second approach step called Running step and finally hopped. In the 3rd phase, attackers reached takeoff. These results caused by this analysis must be different from the common way of so-called Timing Step and Running Step. This is because the situation which was chosen as subjects were focused on the fast attack.

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This study was to clarify investigated attempting to show clearly the component elements for evaluating blocking accomplishment process. Blocking is supposed to be a difficult skill. And the study of evaluating its effects has already been advanced, and we would like to present the component elements of assessment of blocking action itself today. The subjects of this study was six staffs who belong to Japanese men's top league club in V Premier League at present.By introducing Delphi method we asked them to fill out a questionnaire and also give an interview. The results were summarized as followings： 1. As a result of the research of six Japanese V Premier League staffs with Delphi method, we could put their response together and find out six component elements following the definition of this research and of assessment of blocking action. (1)Base position (2)Ready Posture (3)The number of blockers (4)Anticipating for setting in attacking area (5)Approach to attackers (6)Height of blocking 2. We verified that the opinions of those staffs in Japanese top league is not different what is saying in some previous studies and coaching

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In recent years, the importance of scouting in volleyball is higher than before. Then Smile Club began to develop “IT VOLLEY” Software in order to spread of Volleyball not only for specialists but also beginners. Now we've got prototype “IT VOLLEY” Software which can easily analyze volleyball game. The purpose of this study was to introduce this software and to analyze volleyball game using “IT VOLLEY” . It was a practical report. As a result, obtained the following knowledge. Compared with smile club team and the top's which called V league on skills in women. 1） Spike Smile club has 10 points lower than V league in spike success. 2） Serve reception Similar trend was observed between serve reception and spike. Smile club has 40 points lower than V league in serve reception. 3） Block The biggest difference was seen for a block skill. Block rate of smile club was 1/5 or less of the V league.

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Today, the content and quality of information provided via the Internet are becoming more and more important. Based on this background, we decided to survey how information is provided via the Internet by the volleyball team with V-league. This study primarily aimed at analyzing the presence or absence of official websites of ski resorts and their contents, and to consider the characteristics and trends of those websites. The survey period was from November 8 to December 15, 2008. The target of the survey was all 41 team (Premier League 18, Challenge league 23）. As a result of the survey, it was confirmed that official websites were published by all team of the Premier League, but Challenge league were published by 73.9 ％ . In addition, Challenge league official website contents were not so enriched compared with those of Premier League. In the future, we are going to evaluate the management forms of company and information provision via the internet.

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