The first two-man beach volleyball game is played in Santa Monica, California.īeach volleyball appears in Palavas, Lacanau and Royan (France), around Sofia (Bulgaria), Prague (Czechoslavakia), and Riga (Latvia). ![]() It becomes the principal sport in a French nudist camp founded in Franconville, a north-western suburb of Paris. 6.īeach Volleyball crosses the Atlantic Ocean. There are unconfirmed whispers of men’s teams playing on the beach in Hawaii, but most accounts place the sport's origin in Santa Monica, California where the first Volleyball courts are put up on the beach at the Playground. Morgan borrows the net from tennis, and raises it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor, just above the average man's head. ![]() ![]() He creates the game of Volleyball (at that time called mintonette). Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass., decides to blend elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would demand less physical contact than basketball.
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