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A List of Volleyball Terms To Know For Liberos and Backrow Players
Here's a list of volleyball terms to know on digging and defensive terminology for liberos and backcourt players who need to know about backrow defensive terms.
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This list of volleyball terms to know for defensive players is an extensive checklist of funny terms and words borrowed from everyday language for normal people and turned into definitions for defensive playing actions on the court that mean something completely different to players, coaches and fans.
Remember the goal of the team on defense is to keep the ball off their floor so, the players are set up to strategically cover areas at the net and areas in the back court to keep the opposing team from attacking to those areas.
As you learn more about the game, you'll learn more advanced defensive strategies like
how more advanced defensive options work, like playing team rotational defense.
This is a basic explanation of volleyball defense.
Discover specific volleyball terminology collegiate and professional athletes use regularly for defensive actions performed in competition.
A List of Volleyball Terms To Know With Words And Jargon For Liberos and Backrow Players:
What's a libero?
A libero in volleyball can be compared to a pinch hitter in baseball.
The libero is a defensive specialist given much court space to cover to dig up balls in the backrow.
As an expert in serving, passing and backrow defense, the role calls for them to be the one back row player to enter games for a front row player, when that player has to go serve in the backrow without having to be "substituted" in.
The libero's jersey is always a different color shirt color than her teammates to make it easier for the ref and officials to differentiate her from her teammates since she only plays in the back row.
A List of Volleyball Terms To Know With Words And Jargon For Liberos and Backrow Players:
What's a pancake?
The "pancake" is volleyball terminology used in defense to describe what a player does as a last possible effort to keep the ball in play by keeping it from contacting the floor.
If the ball falls below the level of where she would normally form her platform, she can still drop to the floor and place her hand, with her palm down on that very spot on the ground so the ball contacts her hand and not the floor and bounces back up into the air.
This can be an effective method if you have completely extended yourself to get to a ball and the only option you have left is to put your hand out, on the floor, so the ball hits it, instead of the floor.
With a very flat hand well-placed under the ball on the floor, the ball will bounce straight up from your hand, as if it contacted the floor.
A List of Volleyball Terms To Know For Liberos and Backrow Players:
What's a chicken wing?
In beach volleyball defense, this move is used by a player who uses a bent elbow to defend a hard hit spike that's aimed right at her head and shoulder area.
Usually she will chicken wing a ball because she doesn't have time to get both her arms out to form a platform.
As a quick deflective movement, a player will bend their elbow, so the arm looks like its in the shape of a chicken wing, and dig a fast approaching ball that's usually headed towards the digger's face.
The chicken wing is a reactive movement and quite often is unplanned.
A List of Volleyball Terms To Know And Words And Jargon For Liberos and Backrow Players:
What is pepper?
Sure it's a spice!
But pepper in volleyball is a pre-game warm up practice drill used by teammates who partner up and perform all three basic volleyball defense and setting, passing and spiking skills in different combinations in order to do one or all of the following five things:
a. To improve ball control skills.
b. To improve serve receive volleyball technique.
c. To increase the amount of court area you cover.
d. To narrow your focus and concentration.
e. To quicken your reactions and reduce fear of the hard hit ball.
Some coaches use pepper as a conditioning drill or as a way for players to improve their reading ability and digging consistency and technique.
My List of Volleyball Terms To Know With Words And Jargon For Liberos and Backrow Players:
What's a roll?
A roll is an acrobatic defensive technique that players use to collapse safely to the floor after they've been forced to leave their feet to dig a ball.
This volleyball dig video became so popular it was trending on Twitter!
Texas Girls high school volleyball player Autumn Finney pulled off one of the greatest volleyball digging displays ever caught on tape.
Finney soars through the air and makes a fearlessly successful diving save.
This volleyball dig video became so popular it was trending on Twitter!
Read more about volleyball terms to know with words and jargon for liberos and backrow players on these pages.
The Kong Block: Volleyball Blocking With One Arm Instead of Two Arms
The phrase "Kong block" is a volleyball term inspired by the movie character King Kong and refers to a player who blocks the ball with one arm instead of two.
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How to block in volleyball. Learn blocking words and blocker terminology used during front court defense when trying to stop an opposing team's attack hits.
Basic Volleyball Terms For Blocking A Ball At The Net For Points
A double block is one of the basic volleyball terms for blocking that describes when 2 players jump to cover cross court or the line to stop an attack hit.
What Do You Call A Pass In Volleyball A Shank, Overpass, Passing Dimes
The shank, the overpass, a reception error and passing dimes are what you call a pass in volleyball depending on how well you contact the ball in serve receive.
What Is Set In Volleyball 3 Setting Terms For Players In Offense Plays
What is set in volleyball ? Different sets have names that both setters and hitters have to know so they can run their offensive plays in order to score. .
Learn The Volleyball Setting Definition List of Setter Words and Lingo
The overhand pass also known as the set is how the setter, usually the second player to contact the ball in a rally, gets the ball to a hitter for an attack.
Setting In Volleyball 5 Words Players Use To Call Slow Offense Plays
For setting in volleyball this set definition describes terms for slower sets that players first learn so that they know how to run their team's basic offense.
What Is A Butter, Nectar 31 or Gap Set in Volleyball Offense Strategy?
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Volleyball Violations For Passing What Is A Passing Foul Or Violation?
What happens when you make a mistake when you are passing a ball? What type of volleyball violations can happen when receiving serve or passing?
Words About Volleyball Hitting, Spiking and Attacking Terms Explained
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Serving slang is not just about individual techniques; it also relates to overall game strategy. A coach might instruct a player to serve a "short serve" or a "deep serve" to target specific areas of the opponent's court or exploit weaknesses in their serve receive formation.
Ari, my private training client and I are working specifically on serving on jump float cross court serves ...short to Zone 2
There's so much we work on to get to this point where she can contact the ball with
- the same toss height and same toss location
- the same armswing speed
- the same timing for when her serving hand contacts the ball
- the middle of the hand contacting the middle of the ball every single time
- getting use to watching her serving hand contact the ball at the highest point of her jump ...before she starts to land
- and finally contacting the ball in the precise spot on the ball so it goes where the coach wants the player to put it so in this case ..a short serve in the farthest short right corner on the court also called Zone 2.
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