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Water Polo | Game Tactics and Fouls
Water polo is a team event, where players of different positions block shots and passes, and shoot at goals for points. Water polo, would be most similar to soccer as a land event. The game of soccer has 11 players on the field, while the sport of water polo has 7 players on the field. Like paintball, water polo is a team event where players can be rotated into the game. Baseball in contrast, does allow player substitutions, but the players coming out of the game may not come back into the game. Each team has 13 players, 7 in the pool and 6 reserves. There are a lot of moving parts within the water polo arena, with two referees on either side of the pool, two goal judges, two timekeepers, and 2 secretaries. The two secretaries. The two game secretaries keep track of goals scored, foul, and excluded player. Water polo has come a long way since its original format where the game was actually much more similar to land polo games. Like grass polo, players in barrels used to push a ball toward a goal with paddles. In grassy polo, players use an elongated stick to send along a ball towards a goal. Today's water polo features athletes in the pool, with a strong enough lower body strength to hold their body out of the water using their legs for an entire match. Let's take a look at water polo's various techniques and tactics.
Techniques and Tactics. One of the most common plays in the game is the free throw. A free throw usually occurs after a member of a team has committed a foul, and the game is stopped. To resume play the team against which a foul was committed gets to throw the ball to a teammate in the pool within the 7 meter zone, the player must pass the ball directly to a teammate. Outside the 7 meter zone, the players with the free-throw may take a direct shot on net. Inside the 7 meter zone, two teammates must tough the ball before a legal shot may be fired on the goal. A player can make a free throw to himself by dribbling the ball.
Dribbling. Dribbling involves a player swimming forward, while maintaining control of the ball. While dribbling, a player opens his arms and pushes the ball forward, protecting it from the opposing players. While a player is swimming, he uses the arm coming out of the water to push the ball forward just before it goes back into the water. A good water polo dribbler can swim and keep the ball in front of him without breaking stride. While moving with the ball, players can also turn, placing himself between the ball and opposing players to screen the ball. Players may screen themselves between the opposing player and the ball, but they may not deliberately push the other player away.
Fouls. Water polo has two types of fouls, ordinary and major, with various penalties that go along with these events. An ordinary is any action against the rules, whether it be holding onto boundary floats, keeping the ball longer than the time allotted, and so on. When an ordinary foul is committed the game is stopped, and the other team is allowed a free throw. A major foul would include things like pushing or striking another player, any behaviors that are judged to be unsportsmanlike conduct.
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