A Study On The Development Of Beach Volleyball Program In The Physical Education Of Chinese Universities

Beach Volleyball originated in the 1920s from California beach in U.S. A.. In the beginning, it was played purely to satisfy people's entertainment and amusement, and then it became gradually preferred by the outdoor sports fans, and gradually swept the whole globe.During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Beach Volleyball came to China. Although the time after its introduction was very short, it became very popular among college students. The reasons for this phenomenon includes: it's good for fitness, entertainment, fun, fashion, enlightening, and other functions; its venues are delicate, soft, effectively reducing sports injuries and trauma; it has fewer restrictions on the venue, suitable for different age, sex, levels of the participants, and having the various forms of competition: competition within the university, competition between the universities students tournaments, and so on.At present, the "Outline of the Development of Volleyball Program -Beach Volleyball in 2001—2008" made by the Chinese Volleyball Association, specially emphasizes that Beach Volleyball program should strengthen its cooperation with the departments of education and promote the school-based youth beach volleyball projects including "promising project", "Seed Project", and "Hope Project". What's more, Beach Volleyball in 1996 was included in the Olympic Events, and in recent years the level of the Chinese women's volleyball team began to rebound, which once again aroused people's passion of volleyball. At this special time, can inject new blood and bring new vitality to Beach Volleyball program, too.The rapid and effective promotion and development of Beach Volleyball in China Universities has certain practical significance. Colleges usually have large sports population; the students have high cultural quality, strong sense of sport awareness, and strong power of publicity. Most of the students of Physical Education will work in the basic units, which can bring the awareness of Beach Volleyball and activity habits there, thus make this sport spread wholly. What's more, it can be conducive to select "promising talents", and cultivate the reserve forces of this sport, and gradually perfect the personnel training system, and ultimately promote popularizing and competitive levels of Beach Volleyball. However, how to make a sustained and healthy development of it in the long term becomes the current issue that we should solve. As far as the author of this thesis is concerned, to promote the development of Beach Volleyball, the first issue is to spread and develop it in colleges and universities, specially in colleges of professional sports, and then gradually introduce it to other fields.Through the methods of literature review, interviews, investigation, and logical inference and mathematical statistics, this thesis profoundly reveals its own intrinsic value of Beach Volleyball, makes a summary of the present movementf the program of Beach Volleyball, discusses the feasibility and the maino problems of Beach Volleyball in Universities of Physical Education, and finally offers the strategic suggestions for developing Beach Volleyball.