How To Dig in Volleyball, What's A Double Hit, When To Dive in Defense
How To Dig in Volleyball, What's A Double Hit, When To Dive in Defense
Learn how to to dig in volleyball by creating a platform with forearms holding hands together that're used to deflect a spike up in the air to be re-played.
To dig you need to create a platform with your forearms which you use to deflect or redirect a spike, tip or hard driven hit back up to your setter, libero or teammate so they can continue play.
How to Dig In Volleyball Is "Dig" A Technical Term or Volleyball Slang?
to stay in a low athletic stance with your knees bent
while using your forearms to deflect the ball up into the air after itsbeen hit by a member of the opposing team
in order to keep it from hitting your court floor.
The key to digging is to get your hips below the level of the ball just before you make contact.
How To Dig In Volleyball Is the dive in volleyball a way to dig in volleyball?
What's a dive in volleyball?
When you "dive after a ball" you are using one type of defensive technique used by players to land on the ground after they've contacted the ball in order to keep it off the ground.
If a hitter spikes a ball to a defender on the opposing team who digs it with her elbows bent so the ball hits her forearm and then hits her bicep before the setter has a chance to touch it, then that's a double hit.
The ball contacted the defender twice before any other teammate could touch it.
You're more likely to commit a double hit when your elbows are bent while digging. Now a hard driven spike will hit your forearm and then your bicep before being deflected into the air.
Those two contacts are counted as hits and are illegal. The ball can only contact your body once.
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