This study aimed to investigate the relationship across total scores, scoring of serve receive-to-spikes and spiking types in 2015 Asian men`s volleyball club. In addition, we also interest in the question which spiking styles (i.e., spiking styles and spiking positions) are mostly related to scoring of spikes. We adopted the game performances of the top eight teams in 2015 Asian Men`s Club Volleyball Championship for further analysis. We firstly described the recorded data and subsequently conducted Pearson product-moment correlations address this issue. The results revealed that (1) the positions of spiking styles varied according to the spiking areas. In terms of the front court, the greatest contribution can be attributable to the spiking at position 4 (44.87%), intermediate contribution for the position 3 (24.24%), and smallest contribution for the position 2 (24.24%). For the back court, the greatest contribution can be found for the spiking at the position 1 (8.77%%), intermediate contribution for the position 6 (3.02%), and smallest contribution for the position 5 (0.09%). (2) The distribution of spiking types were that: for the front court, the most spiking type was the adjusted high ball spikes at the position 4 (19.72%), and then followed by flat spikes at the position 4 (16.08%), type A quick-set spikes (10.52%) at position 3, and high ball spikes in the position 4 (9.08%). For the back court, the most spiking style was high ball spikes at the position 1 (5.11%), and then followed by tipping spikes in the position 1 (3.66%), and flat spikes at the position 6 (3.02%). Importantly, the correlation analysis suggested that there were significant relations of tipping spiking at the position 1 to the serve receive-to-spikes as well as total spiking scores. Taken together, these results indicated that the major spiking styles for Asian men`s volleyball were the position 4 for the front rows and position 1 for the back rows, separately. Furthermore, there were significant association of tipping spiking at the position 1 with the scores of serve receive-tospikes and total scores. The above evidence suggests that an increase of spiking at the position 1 was mostly related to greater scoring in volleyball games. We thus concluded that, in 2015 Asian Men`s Club Volleyball Championship, although the greatest contribution of scoring was the spiking at position 4, the success of winning games may be particularly related to the adoption of spiking strategy at the position 1.
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