Variations and related games
There are many variations on the basic rules of volleyball. By far the most popular of these is beach volleyball, which is played on sand with two people per team, and rivals the main sport in popularity.
Some games related to volleyball include:
• Beachball volleyball: A game of indoor volleyball played with a beach ball instead of a volleyball.
• Biribol: an aquatic variant, played in shallow swimming pools. The name comes from the Brazilian city where it was invented, Birigui.
• Ecua-volley: A variant invented in Ecuador, with some significant variants, such as number of players, and a heavier ball.
• Footvolley: A sport from Brazil in which the hands and arms are not used but most else is like beach volleyball.
• Hooverball: Popularized by President Herbert Hoover, it is played with a volleyball net and a medicine ball; it is scored like tennis, but the ball is caught and then thrown back. The weight of the medicine ball can make the sport to be quite physically demanding; annual championship tournaments are held annually in West Branch, Iowa.
• Newcomb ball (sometimes spelled "Nuke 'Em"): In this game, the ball is caught and thrown instead of hit; it rivaled volleyball in popularity until the 1920s.
• Prisoner Ball: Also played with volleyball court and a volleyball, prisoner ball is a variation of Newcomb ball where players are "taken prisoner" or released from "prison" instead of scoring points. Usually played by young children.[31]
• Sepak Takraw: Played in Southeast Asia using a rattan ball and allowing only players' feet, knees, chest, and head to touch the ball.
• Throwball: became popular with women players at the YMCA College of Physical Education in Chennai (India) in the 1940s.
• Wallyball: A variation of volleyball played in a racquetball court with a rubber ball.