To dig a volleyball or by digging a volleyball up in defense you are keeping a hard or softly attacked ball by an opposing team's hitter off of your volleyball court floor.
This keeps them from scoring a point, while at the same time you are setting your team up to run an offensive counterattack against them so your team can try to score a point.
How Do You Hold Your Volleyball Hands, Wrists and Arms When You Dig A Ball?
How do you hold your volleyball hands, wrists and arms when you dig a ball?
Both arms are held together at the wrists so your arms form a flat surface, called a "platform" for the ball to bounce off of.
To volleyball dig both arms are held together at the wrists so your arms form a flat surface, called a "platform" for the ball to bounce off of.
Your Wrists
To keep both wrists held together
a digger places closed fist inside the palm of the other hand and wraps the fingers around the closed fists so both thumbs are now together side by side.
You contact the ball on your platform above the wrists and below the inside of your elbows.
This area on your arms in volleyball terminology is called your "platform" and its what you use to contact and control balls that are below your waist.
you use it to complete a volleyball dig in defense.
Your Hips
Just before you dig a ball
you lower your hips so they are below the level
of the oncoming ball and you present your platform in front of you blocking the path of the ball so its deflected up in the air towards the middle of your court close to your team's ten foot line.
Volleyball Dig: Where Do You Need To Be On The Court In Order To Dig A Volleyball Up?
The Volleyball Dig: What Is It, When To Do It and How To Dig A Ball: As a digger its your job to place yourself in the path of the oncoming ball that's been hit by an opposing team's hitter. (Ralph Arvesen)
Where do you position yourself on the court to dig a ball up?
Depending on the defense that your team is playing this may mean that you stand in the shadow of your blockers or you have to place yourself in the seam of the block so if the hitter hits between the two blockers the digger will pick up that ball in the back court
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You might like these pages about the volleyball dig.
What is dig in volleyball and how do you learn to dig well behind your block so you can see which balls you need to defend and keep off the floor in a rally.
In basic rules of volleyball two teams compete on one court with a net between them. A rally starts with a serve and each team has 3 contacts. One player, one contact.
A volleyball passing platform is with forearms clasping your thumbs together and pointing them to the ground so ball contacts above wrists and below elbows.
The volleyball toss for the overhand serve needs to consistently be two feet up in the air and one foot in front of front foot which puts the ball in front of your serving arm.
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