Originally posted by: tom
Any time Kevin sees a video he doesn't like he claims it is doctored, but is unable to furnish any proof that it is.
That video is on numerous news sites so if it was doctored smarter people than Kevin would have discovered it.
The male in the video is about 5'8 but due to his strength is able to elevate higher than girls to drive it. Anyway a 6 foot female is not as strong as a 6 foot males due to a males higher testosterone level & more muscle mass. A female volleyball player can hit about 40 mph but a male can hit almost double that.
Girls volleyball use a lower net than boys, who can take advantage of the lower net to drive the ball.
Yep. Doctored. What the widdle biddy eight-second excerpt doesn't show is that what stunned the opponent wasn't the force of the spike--it was that it hit her in the face.
I located a much longer excerpt. In that excerpt, you can see the ball being spiked many times, by several different players--and in each case, the ball is traveling just as fast.
But it was on a legitimate news site, the kind Tom doesn't watch.
A legitimate source estimates high school males' maximum spike speed at 50-60 mph and females' at 50 mph.
https://professionalshq.com/how-fast-do-volleyball-players-hit-the-ball-we-did-the-research-2022/