Get BEACH VOLLEYBALL PROPOSAL

Points: When a team wins a rally (the ball is grounded, hit out, or a team fails to return the ball properly) they are awarded a point and serve. Set: The first two are to 21 points and the third is to 15 points. Teams must have a two-point advantage to win set and there will be no caps used.

The objective in beach volleyball is for a player to hit the ball over the net such that it lands within the opponent's playing area, or is not legally returned to his/her own playing area. Players can make contact with the ball using any part of their body, except on the serve, which must be hit with only the hand.

What is the difference in beach and indoor volleyball courts? Outside of the obvious difference – beach volleyball is played on the sand – the court sizes are also different. The indoor court is the larger of the two, measuring 18m long and 9m wide with a net that is 2.43m high for men and 2.24m high for women.

As opposed to the hardcourt in indoor volleyball, beach volleyball is a sport played between two teams on a sand court. The match starts with a coin toss to decide which team serves first. Both players on the team have to serve alternatively after every change in serve upon winning a point.

In beach volleyball there are no specialized positions, as there are only two people on each side of the net. Each person needs to be able to block, set, dig, and hit at any time. When the receiving team wins point they gain the right to serve. The serving player must be alternated every time this occurs.

Now, look, this will probably be an unpopular piece - but can someone explain to me again why beach volleyball is in the Olympics? The official version is that it was introduced as a trial sport and proved so popular that games organisers decided to make it a regular feature from 1996.

A demonstration sport at Barcelona 1992, beach volleyball officially joined the ranks of Olympic sports at Atlanta 1996. There are both men's and women's editions.