As a middle blocker you need to use your upper body - specifically
If you're a middle blocker in volleyball, at the max height of your block jump, you want to have your arms, shoulders and especially hands angled towards where you want the ball to go, once its blocked.
As a middle blocker in volleyball, you want your blocking hands and arms angled towards the middle of the opposing team's court while penetrating the net to block.
The ball will be deflected back into the court and not out of bounds.
Another thing to remember when you learn how to block a volleyball is to try to fully extend your arms across the net at the maximum point of your block jump.
A middle blocker in volleyball has to block quick sets which are so fast that they only have time to just get there hands over the net to stop the ball.
But outside blockers who block 4's and 5's, balls that are set high
to the outside or shot out at a quicker pace to the outside have time to
use the full extension of their arms to block the ball.
If you were born with arms that are 45" inches long then you should be reaching some 45 plus 1 or 2 inches as far over the net as you can get to perform your maximum block jump with your longest arm reaching ability.
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