It was introduced to the Filipinos by an American named Elwood S. Brown,[1] the then Physical Director of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA).

[2] US soldiers who were assigned to the different islands of the Philippine during the period also helped in the widespread introduction of volleyball to the Filipinos.

[3] A spike is a form of volleyball "attack" done by the player by jumping, raising one arm above the head and hitting the ball so it will move quickly down to the ground on the opponent's court.

The new technique invented by the Filipinos prompted American enthusiasts and participants in volleyball to call it as the "Filipino bomb", because "spiking the ball" was like a "hit" or a form of "attack" that can squash or "kill" the opportunity of the opponent team to hit the ball back for a possible point or win.

[2] A more apt description of "hitting and spiking" is that it is "an offensive style of passing the ball in a high trajectory to be struck by another player.

This includes:[5] Men's volleyball gained traction after the Philippine national team clinched a silver medal in the 2019 Southeast Asian Games.