Libero Serving and other rule questions.

tbarbera · **Libero Serving and other rule questions. -** 01-06-2007, 03:02 AM

I was wondering what people think about the Libero being able to serve at different levels (highschool, club, college club, Yankee, USAV, NCAA, FIVB, girls, guys...). I am a Libero and have a good serve, often better than the middles I libero out, so I like the Libero being able to serve. I am not sure why at some levels the Libero cannot serve.

Also I am wondering why there seem to be differences in some rules at all levels of play. I understand refs being more lenient with setting at lower levels, but I don't understand some other rules... off the top of my head the libero serving thing and persuit. Why aren't there one set of rules?

strazzere · 01-06-2007, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by tbarbera

I was wondering what people think about the Libero being able to serve at different levels (highschool, club, college club, Yankee, USAV, NCAA, FIVB, girls, guys...). I am a Libero and have a good serve, often better than the middles I libero out, so I like the Libero being able to serve. I am not sure why at some levels the Libero cannot serve.

Also I am wondering why there seem to be differences in some rules at all levels of play. I understand refs being more lenient with setting at lower levels, but I don't understand some other rules... off the top of my head the libero serving thing and persuit. Why aren't there one set of rules?

I agree with the libero serving rule, makes sense to me - and makes the libero a more better tool to use.

As for persuit - I believe I heard reasoning to be that it can be considered unsafe in many conditions. It's hard to rule that it is legal across a league due to different equipment being used at different facilities. In lower levels this could be death for some people too.

I remember an odd rule I heard in long island at sportime was "your allowed to touch the net as much as you want, as long as it is outside the antenna"... Needless to say when I decided to be an ******* and rape the net thus pulling it down a little they said "oh but you can't do that"... I still think those bastards are lying cheaters, but hey - they still lost after raping the net a thousand times!

NewEnglandRT · 01-07-2007, 12:47 AM

A Regional official mentioned to me today that they may permit the use of two liberos, and allowing liberos to serve at the USAV level. I don't know what other levels this will trickle down to, or if it's going to be an FIVB thing first.

revjim27 · 01-07-2007, 08:47 PM

I thought he mentioned something about only one of the two liberos being able to serve...but then again I was only half listening.

mycena · 01-08-2007, 11:24 AM

Could somebody please esplain to me what the libero serving rule is? Like when, where, how it would work? Thanks!

revjim27 · **Libero Serving Experiment -** 01-08-2007, 01:44 PM

Check it out:
http://www.osaa.org/volleyball/2006/liberoserve.pdf

and

http://forum.officiating.com/showthread.php?t=30090

Man, the things you can accomplish with Google...