A Study On The Present Situation And Countermeasures For Development Of Man's Sitting-volleyball In China

Sitting-volleyball is a volleyball sport for the handicapped which originates from Holland in 1950s. In 1957 Finland organized the first match of sitting-volleyball, and it became an Olympic sport in 1980. The national man's team ranks No.6 in the Sitting Volleyball World Championships in June 2006. But the man's sitting-volleyball teams of our nation showed great imbalance in the latest two years' national sitting-volleyball tournament. Thus the writer makes an investigation of the status of the coaches and athletes, the backups, the judges, the mode of training and management, and the competition system, of 20 man's sitting-volleyball teams, and puts forward countermeasures accordingly so as to help the national man's sitting-volleyball team to win the gold medal in the 2008 Olympic Games.The research object of this paper are 20 men's sitting-volleyball teams which has attended the 2005 and 2006 national sitting-volleyball tournament. This paper makes full investigations of the status of man's sitting-volleyball teams of our nation through various ways such as document, questionnaire, data statistics, observation and interview, and makes an analysis of the existent problems. Conclusions and suggestions are as follows:1. Through the investigation of the national sitting-volleyball tournament of 2006 and 2007, it turns out that the training hours, times of attending formal matches and match experience of the man's sitting-volleyball teams of our nation differ a lot. The sports level of different provinces and cities vary a lot, among which the tactics level of Shanghai team, Gansu team, Liaoning team, Zhejiang team, Jiangsu team are comparatively high, while Shanxi team and Henan team have few tactics.2. The investigation also reveals that the main factors influence the development of man's sitting-volleyball of our nation are athletes selection, training condition, outlay guarantee, compete opportunities, the socialization degree of sitting-volleyball, technique level, the culture level of athletes, and the guarantee system of the handicapped.Suggestions: Disabled persons' federations at different levels should pay great attention to man's sitting-volleyball training, organize some related special seminars, provide trainings for coaches, judges and athletes, create more competition opportunities for athletes, establish the selection standard of athletes. They should also solve the ill and injury harassment of athletes, put more emphasis on the publicity of man's sitting-volleyball so as to increase the public influence of man's sitting-volleyball in our nation, strengthen the training of backups so as to increase the overall level of man's sitting-volleyball of our nation and accelerate the development of man's sitting-volleyball of the nation.