What is a volleyball dig?
To dig a volleyball means you contact and intercept the ball, while your team is on defense by deflecting it up in the air with your arms held together.
You defend, or dig the volleyball once it crosses into your court after an attack hit by the opposing team, so they don't score a point.
There are offensive ways to contact the ball and there are defensive ways to contact the ball.
The 'pass', the 'set', the 'serve' and the 'hit' describe offensive ways to contact the ball.
These are terms that describe ways you contact the ball to set it up for an attack hit into the other team's court.
The "block" and "the dig" are defensive terms used to describe ways to contact the ball. You 'block' or 'dig a volleyball' when you need to defend your court from the other team's attack.
What is a volleyball dig?
Defensive plays are made in a rally, after a team serves, the serving team is on defense and the team who is receiving the serve is on offense.
The team on defense has three blockers in the front row who will try and stop the opposing team's attack hit at the net by blocking the ball before it comes over the net.
If the blockers can't block it then the three players on defense in the back row, also called 'diggers' or 'defensive volleyball players', will use their defensive volleyball skills to dig the ball up to keep it off the ground so the opposing team can't score a point.
On defensive plays, the block is the first line of defense for a team and the dig is the second and last line of defense for a team to try and keep an opposing team's attack hits from scoring points by keep the ball off the floor.
When your team blocks, you are defending your court at the net, and if the ball gets by the block, then your back row players. also known as 'diggers', defend your court by digging the ball up into the air so it doesn't hit the floor.
The minute your team digs a volleyball up and the ball stays on your side your team changes or "transitions" from being a team on defense to becoming a team on offense.
What is A Volleyball Dig?
You defend, or dig the volleyball once it crosses into your court after an attack hit by the opposing team, so they don't score a point.
Your team keeps the opposing team's attack off your floor, but you've also set your team up to run an offensive attack sending the ball into the opposing team's court.
Now its their turn to try and block your team or make a defensive volleyball play or dig a ball up that you or your attackers send into their court to try and score a point.
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