Oh, the Places We'll Go » EcuaVolley http://tedandsarah.com Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:00:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Ecuador´s Most Popular Sport http://tedandsarah.com/2010/09/21/ecuador%c2%b4s-most-popular-sport/ http://tedandsarah.com/2010/09/21/ecuador%c2%b4s-most-popular-sport/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:56:29 +0000 Ted http://tedandsarah.com/?p=267 Read the Rest...
]]> Soccer, right?  Well maybe, but equally as popular as the world´s game is an Ecuadorian version of volleyball: EcuaVolley.  And it is everywhere in this country.  Courts are in every park, in every town – way more prevelant than soccer fields.   It´s similar to volleyball as we know it, but with a few important differences:

  • Generally played on cement courts with a soccer ball
  • 3 on 3
  • Higher nets, preventing most players from spiking the ball (Ecuadorians aren’t the tallest people)
  • A much more liberal touch time for each contact with the ball

When we first witnessed the game, I thought everyone was cheating – you can’t palm the ball in volleyball!  Well, in EcuaVolley, you can.  There are some talented players down here, and games we witnessed got competitive and heated.

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