Volleyball Words and Definitions For Setting Five Fast Offensive Plays
These 5 volleyball words and definitions define setting terms describing how setters set quicker and lower balls to hitters to create fast team offensive plays.
Its a setter's job to run a team's offense which means as you get better and improve your setting skills you'll have to learn how to speed up and lower the height of a ball in order to run a faster offense.
The shoot set is a high velocity set that relies heavily on precise timing and precision placement delivered primarily to the middle blocker or left side hitter while they're in Zone 3 or Zone 4.
Volleyball Words and Definitions For Setting Five Fast Offensive Plays The Half Shoot Set
Half shoot set
The half shoot is a very high speed or high velocity set, that ranges from one to three feet high and is delivered with virtually no arc and parallel to the net, to a hitter, usually the middle hitter.
At higher levels of competition the timing for the "31" is such that the hitter has taken their last two steps in their spike approach and is in the air when the setter has the ball--in their hands--so all the setter has to do is literally shoot the ball at a very fast speed right into the hands of the waiting spiker.
The "31" like the half shoot basically looks like a long quick set that's being set so that the ball is contacted between Zone 3 and Zone 4 along the net.
Volleyball Words and Definitions For Setting Five Fast Offensive Plays The "3" Set
The 32 is a slower paced half shoot which is run as the slower or second timing play option at the same time as the 31.
The middle hitter makes their spike approach, taking off about four to five feet away from the setter and is in the air by the time the setter is contacting the ball.
The spike definition volleyball terms describe 4 ways to hit a ball including a cross court shot, hitting a line or cross court shot, or using the cut shot.
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