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Volleyball Rotations | by Howard Walsh

The volleyball game is full of strategies and formations that you can reach to improve and create a better plan that works according with your expectations, intentions and the main idea of how you want your team work, these strategies were created to organized in a better way a volleyball team to have better results on the offensive and defense.

It doesn't matter the way of playing that you practice, there are several volleyball rotations for each kind of offense playing you use like 5-1, 6-2 or 4-2 , because there are many rotations of each one of those that you can adapt to the game plan, all these rotations are based basically in one aspect that is getting the setter to the best position to set and pass to the hitters.

These are the kinds of rotations:

1. 5-1: This rotations makes that just one player assume the setter obligations regardless on the position of the player, also depending on the row that the setter is the way of attack change, if the setter is on the front row there will be two possible attackers but if the setter is on the back row the attackers will be three, another point of the 5-1 rotation is the player on the opposite side of the setter that is called opposite hitter, this player stays back when the other team is serving, also is of great help when the setter is in the front, the opposite hitter can help with the attack to increase the possibilities of an attack even when is not his (her) basic obligation.

2. 4-1: This specific rotation has tow setters and four hitters, the setters always will play opposite on the line up this way when one of them is on the serving position the other one will be on position of new setter, the disadvantage of this rotation is that will be only tow attackers of your team and this could decrease your chances and your strategies of attack because you don't have too many options with tow players for build up another plays.

3. 6-2: In this case two of your six players will play as setters, they will line up on opposite sides, the three front row players will attack and always one player will come form the back row to set, making this rotation actually a 4-2 system just that players from the back row participated to the front row, this strategy has more offensive attack than the 4-1 rotation because the three players on the front row play as hitters creating more chances to attack the opponent team.