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When you dig a volleyball on your club or varsity team, you'll need to be okay with digging and defending hard hitting attackers on the opposing team.
The volleyball dig or digging a volleyball up in defense means that you are able to keep an attacked ball by the opposing team off your court floor.
Liberos and defensive specialists are backrow defensive players who can improve volleyball digging efficiency by using these tactics in practice drills.
The libero volleyball player has specific qualities and specialized responsibilities in their defensive roles along with special rules created just for them.
The volleyball libero is a specialist in digging, passing and playing in the backcourt who wears a contrasting color jersey and has defensive responsibilities.
Also called 'Hit and Dig' volleyball drills these are used frequently in our volleyball practices to work on hitting and defense technique.
We do volleyball digging drills everyday in our Volleyball Voice Boot Camp classes so that liberos, defensive specialists and players who play in the backrow work on improving their digging skills.
Volleyball Skills For Digging: A List of 9 Volleyball Basic Dig Steps
Improve your volleyball skills for digging using this comprehensive list of volleyball basics for before, during and after you need to dig a volleyball.
A volleyball defensive player like a libero or defensive specialist needs to be aggressive in the backrow while passing, digging and communicating well.
The four digging volleyball terms explained for liberos and defensive players are
which describes what happens in the backrow.
Digging and defensive volleyball terminology and words for liberos, defensive specialists and backcourt players who need to learn more volleyball vocabulary.
The "chester" and the "facial" are two volleyball terms used to describe how you can legally dig a ball by using your face or your chest instead of your hands.
These two terms in volleyball, the six pack and the facial, describe digging actions liberos know because they explain how to dig a volleyball using your face.
These 3 volleyball tips for digging a ball describe how to dig a ball without taking a step, taking one step and taking three steps away from your base in defense.
These 10 defense volleyball techniques are answered on how to dig a volleyball better, where to be in defense, and what to watch when the other team is hitting.
Dig volleyballs that are 3-4 feet away from you by using the barrel roll technique we teach in Vegas Volleyball Boot Camp classes.
Dig more volleyballs by watching the the ball, the setter, the ball and then the hitter when the opposing team attacks the ball.
These digging volleyball basics teach you where to contact the ball on your arms, where feet and legs need to be and how to read hitters better in defense.
To make a 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.
To "dig" the ball is a slang term used to mean "defend" the ball up in the air which requires you to stay in a low athletic stance with your knees bent while using your forearms to deflect the ball up into the air after its been hit by a member of the opposing team in order to keep it from hitting your court floor.
Usually done during warmups in order to get warm-up to play defense in the match.
For balls that are tipped to the middle of the court we teach the three step barrel roll technique to dig a volleyball.
The roll or barrel roll is one of the several acrobatic individual defense techniques you can use to collapse to the ground after finishing a volleyball dig that takes you off balance.
This technique helps you complete your defense action safely and most importantly...allows the play to continue without the ball hitting the floor.
The "roll" is used as a way to finish to the floor and recover your footing after digging an attacked or deflected ball you had to leave your feet and hit the ground for
Usually done during warmups in order to get warm-up to play defense in the match.
To dig a volleyball that's more than 2-3 steps away from you and low to the floor, you need to know
For the balls hit or tipped close to you in defense we use the extension and pop up to drop our hips fast to beat the ball to the floor.
For balls spiked further away we teach the extension and one step to barrel roll to get to balls that go up over the block before they come down.
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