What position gets the best athletes? volleyball argument?

uhmm DEFINATLY the libero/ds position...for sure because the middles, outside hitters and even some setters are very akward and cant pass for their lives!!! passing and digging is like 80% of the game and if you cant pass you basically suck at volleyball...liberos are the most athletic and often have to cover the whole court and end up running around and diving all over the place, setters dont do sh** and hitting comes naturally to a human being so hitters are just regular people (usually beastly tall) that just stand there and whack the ball, you dont have to think as a hitter you dont even use your head, liberos actually have to move AND think hahahaha unlike the other postions, the actually read the ball, the hitter, and the every thing else.....being a libero is much tougher physically and mentally

Setters/right sides have to be the most athletic and quick thinking of all the players.

First, OH are NOTORIOUS for bailing. Half the reason they get so many sets is a) it's an easy set b) they're already set up from NOT BLOCKING.

MB are great in the front row, but have a problem moving quick enough in the back row.

Liberos are great in the backrow, but do not have the height or ability to play all around.

Setters/right sides play all the way around, have to know every skill and have to memorize everyone's playing style to anticipate the plays. They also have to be able to control the court and run the plays effectively. Anyone can pass and hit, it takes skill to run a court like a setter does.

To call a setter slow or "less explosive" is funny. One has only to watch how hard a setter has to work just to keep the ball in play to see that it takes much more skill to be a setter than an outside hitter.

I agree with most points you made...except for a few that I completely disagreed with!

First of all, I think that setters have to be very talented to do what they do well (well, every player does) but especially setters. Setters are usually quick, intuitive players. They need to make quick decisions that affect the whole play. The setters pretty much run the court.

And liberos I would say are people who are very athletic, seeing as they specialize in defensive playing! They are the ones who are most apt to receive tough spikes. They would have to be quick on their feet and able to read someone's body language.

Volleyball is a veryy mental sport. I'm only 13 and I've already played every position at least once (I'm usually outside hetter, though) through different clubs and schools.

Hope I helped.

Sincerely, "Zuko"

It all depends on what level you are talking about if a coach does not have a lot to choose from he may take a slow less explosive player to set but If I had a choice I'd take the best athlete and make them set and run my offense. Setting good passes is easy chasing down shanks and putting up hitable balls isn't. Yes outsides are usually good athletes but after you get out of grade school and the whole team is athletic setters need to be one of the best athletes on the team.

I def. agree that OH's are the most athletic. They need to be, and are definitely more athletic than the Middle, because middles are often good because of their height, liberos are too short and setters are usually for those who aren't athletic enough to jump but are still decent athletes. The hardest position though I think is the Libero, it is often given no credit but being a libero is really hard as they have to dig the great spikes by other OH's and Middles, they are a big part of a team's success.

I have to disagree at least on setters. If they are not athletic, you have a team that gets bump sets on any tough pass, and the only offense they ever get is the high outside set to the strong side hitter. The athletic setter gets their hands to almost every pass, they are a weapon at the net so you can't cheat to the outside hitters, and they make plays on the tough pass that can change a match.

I played middle most of my playing career, and I have played with and against middles that were so athletic that the libero came in for the outside hitter. One girl I coached against in Oregon played middle, and let her team in kills, blocks, DIGS, and aces. They took 2nd in the state....

Depends how you quantify the best, do wrestlers put more into there matches that any other sportsmen? i can't honestly say they do because every sportsman generally give there all during games. Are wrestlers more committed to wrestling than any other sportsman to there sport? again i can't actually say that just because a wrestler wrestles 3 times a week is that more impressive than a cricket that spends 12 hours a day every day at his cricket ground watching tapes and working on weaknesses to improve? I don't think anything will ever be as black and white as "he's a wrestler so he's a better athlete than that cricketer or that american footballer" a generalization like that is means very little, you can find examples to prove your point but you would have to ignore plenty that don't. Every athlete hits the gym as often as a wrestler and work on things just as hard, nothing can ever be as black and white as this question makes it sound. it's always going to be debated because every sport will have an example of a better athlete than say Big Daddy V.

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I believe good Liberos are the most hardworking because 1, they are responsible for getting the ball perfectly to the setter and 2, they have to dive all over the place (at least i do) and 3, they have to have great reflexes.

You pretty much have to be born to be a libero. You cannot teach someone how to react quickly or have sharp relexes. And they have to get almost everysingle ball that comes with in a 15 feet radius.

they are usually the ones with the most scarred knees and elbows

but you are right, bad liberos affect the whole team.

i think every single position on the volleyball team is just as important as any other. for my team however, i agree that usually outside hitters are the most athletic..and usually are the best hitters. they also, like you said, need to be able to serve receive and serve since at least on my team, our right sides are the ones that get subbed. however, outside hitters don't have to be the shortest..i play outside and i'm 5'11", the tallest player on my team.

i deff disagree that setters are the slowest, setters have to be one of the quickest players on the team in order to get that second ball every single time. our setter isn't as fast this year, but last year our setter got every single second ball no matter where it was passed she was just there. they also have to be smart and know when and where to dump and where to set each individual player.

our right sides are our weakest hitters i would say, and don't get set as often as our outsides or even middles. they get subbed out back row because they are not strong at defense, however they are relatively strong at blocking the outside hitters on the other side.

i agree that middles are the slow, awkward, tall players and they are usually strong at blocking, but unless you get lucky, usually most of them are very inconsistant at hitting, because of their awkwardness. both of our middles go out back row and our libero plays for them because they can't pass..at all haha.

our libero isn't very strong this year because we graduated our amazing libero last year. she's a freshman so i can't even begin to talk about her. but our libero last year, was amazing. she dove after single ball and got most of them up. i don't think it's necessarily a hard position, but does take a lot of brians to figure out exactly where to put yourself in order to get a dig and to react extremely fast if you are wrong. i agree most liberos are short, like ours this year, but the one i talked about from last year was about 5'8" soo it's not always the case.

anyway that's my thoughts. :)