Two Action Words For Volleyball Digging The Six Pack and The Facial

These two action words for volleyball digging that explain what's a six pack and the facial are digging actions explain how to dig a volleyball using your face.

These two action words for volleyball digging that explain what's a six pack and the facial are digging actions explain how to dig a volleyball using your face. (Denis Wright)

There are two terms in volleyball that describe what happens when you dig the ball using your face instead of using your hands. 

These two action words for volleyball digging that explain what's a six pack and the facial are digging actions explain how to dig a volleyball using your face.

I'm not joking.

Many times in competition if it hasn't happened to you already you may face a hitter who has a fast arm swing.

Their arm swing may be so fast that you don't have time to put your hands up to dig a ball that they hit that's coming right at your face.  

Sooo you end up digging the ball with your face!

Action Words For Volleyball Digging About The Six Pack and The Facial: Players who dig alot of balls in a game don't always use their hands. Sometimes whether on purpose, or on accident, other body parts are used to keep the ball in play. (Michael E Johnston)

The two words that describe volleyball digging actions are

• the six pack - one way that explains how to dig with your face 
• the facial - another way to explain how to dig with your face

Players who dig alot of balls in a game don't always use their hands. 

Sometimes whether on purpose, or on accident, other body parts are used to keep the ball in play. 

Action Words For Volleyball Digging About The Six Pack and The Facial: Sometimes whether on purpose, or on accident, other body parts are used to keep the ball in play. (Michael E. Johnston)

The two phrases I just talked about are commonly used terms in volleyball that you should familiarize yourself with because experienced players use these terms regularly. 

Action Words For Volleyball Digging About The Six Pack and The Facial: A player can be 'six packed' while they are in serve receive by a server on the opposite team who has an insanely strong jump serve. (RRaiderstyle)

The six pack is one of the more famous terms in volleyball used to describe how a player can dig a ball without using their hands.

Others know about this word unfortunately, because they experienced the "six pack" on the court firsthand.

Usually, when it happens it can be a memorable and quite often, an embarassing situation.

When you get "six packed" the term takes on a whole different sometimes painful meaning.

In this case it means you faced a spiker on an opposing team who spiked a ball that hit you hard in the face, in the chest or square in the upper body leaving you stunned, surprised and often times with a stinging bruise that occasionally leaves a mark.

Just for the record, what usually gets bruised the most on players that get "six packed" are their egos.

A player can be 'six packed' while they are in serve receive by a server on the opposite team who has an insanely strong jump serve.

Or they can get 'sixpacked' while they are in defense and they get hit by a ball attacked by a strong hitting spiker with a fast arm swing. 

Check out the video for an example of...

How does a six pack happen? 

When it happens, its because the ball was served or spiked so hard and so fast that if you were the defensive player trying to dig or pass the volleyball, you didn't have time to put your hands up to make a defensive move to deflect or dig it, so the ball hit you ...hard..on some part of your face or body.

Action Words For Volleyball Digging About The Six Pack and The Facial: Back in the day the "six pack" referred to a 'six pack of beer' and in many long running indoor and outdoor tournaments it still means the same today.

According to the players who invented the phrase, when a hitter hits the ball hard enough to catch a defensive player by surprise, hitting them so hard they can't dig the ball up, the digger must follow an old school volleyball tradition, which is to "pay" the spiker a six pack of their favorite beverage.

Back in the day the "six pack" referred to a 'six pack of beer' and in many long running indoor and outdoor tournaments it still means the same today.

This tradition, both actual and symbolic is still deeply embedded in American volleyball culture and is destined to stay a part of it for a long time. 

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