The educational value of the rules in volleyball

The rules of team sports and the technical and tactical methods applicable to them are essential for competitive sports. The correct competition is triggered by the automatic mechanism of the sanction following the violation of a rule of the game which is also helped by the relational dynamics of the individual members of the group who demand the application of the rule to continue playing. The competition can also be self-regulated by the two groups that compete for the victory without even the direct action of the referee as always happens in training activities. This phenomenon can be found only in those contexts where the rule is necessary and alone sufficient to ensure the orderly development of the activities. The objective of the study is to identify in the individual team sports the significant elements of the rules of the game and the related technical and tactical behaviours and to identify an inventory of significant behaviours. The method is the documental archive research for the analysis of the rules of individual team sports, a subsequent comparative method between grids of indicators, descriptors and weights that classify rule, technique and tactics. The expected results will focus on the congruent presence of the significant elements and the commonality or discordance between team sports. The data is useful to measure the quantity of significant behaviours in order to qualitatively elaborate the value of each of them with respect to the other current behaviours of quantitative performance and to establish the connections. Subsequently, self-perception requests can be given to practitioners (athletes and students) on the specific connections between the need for the rule and its application in order to be able to play sportively at the highest levels with gratification and satisfaction. The results are useful for possible reflections and focus on the reproducibility of the investigated mechanism to other social activities through educational and formative action.