Playing a bit of pool volleyball is a great way to spend a summer afternoon if you have a pool (or if you have friends who have a pool!), but while most people think that their pool is not conducive to pool volleyball (after all, it is a rare pool indeed that is shallow all the way across), you can still play pool volleyball in a standard pool.
Before you do anything else to enable yourself to play pool volleyball in a standard pool, you will need to set up the net so that there will be enough space for people to stand on the “deeper” side, as well as on the shallow side, without them slipping so deep that the water is above their heads. Once you have set up the net so that there is space to stand on the “deep end” side, use pool noodles or some other sort of pool toy to mark the boundaries of the deep end side – setting these markers along the side of the pool. The Poolside Volleyball set. It will be much easier for you to set up the boundaries in the shallow end than the arbitrary boundaries of the deep end, as you can simply designate the wall around the shallow end as the “out” line; you can also make things easier on the team that is stuck trying to keep their heads above water in the deep end by allowing balls that bounce off the wall and back into the pool to still be in play. Once you have set up the net and established the boundaries, you can divide up the teams into “those tall enough to stand in the deeper part” and “those short enough to get to play in the shallow end.” With the teams now divided up in something of an “even” manner, you will be ready to start playing – having fun as you institute a new family tradition of playing volleyball in your pool!
