blocking

Question
play keeps reoccurring...ball is passed over net player jumps to hit, does not make clean contact and then takes the next hit...is this a legal play or a double contact...high school officials are calling this a block attempt and not an attack...I was trained that an attacked took place primarily with one hand swinging at the ball and a block was with two hands trying to keep the ball from crossing into their court????

Answer
Hello Brian and welcome to www.AllExperts.com

My name is Coach Tovar

To make sure that all my readers young and old can understand some of my comments, I have chosen to use simple vocabulary words and interpret the rule for this sole purpose.

"ball is passed over net player jumps to hit, does not make clean contact and then takes the next hit...is this a legal play or a double contact.."

This is a double contact on a block attempt. It is not an attack because they were on offense. A partial touch on a block attempt only counts when a block attempt has been made. The defensive player went from a block attempt to a strike attempt. This is a violation

Example # 1
If I jump to hit a set and cannot reach the ball and the defensive player touches the ball on a spike and it lands on top of that player then they do not have a second hit.

Example # 2
If I jump to hit a set ball and touch it as it is going over and the defensive player tries to hit it and partially touches the ball and the ball lands on him/her then the player can hit the ball again.

"I was trained that an attacked took place primarily with one hand swinging at the ball and a block was with two hands trying to keep the ball from crossing into their court"

A block can be made with one hand or two hands. When this happens it usually looks like a joust but higher on the net.

Players usually start in a blocking position and suddenly try to spike the ball once they see that the ball is unreachable by the offense who set that ball. You have one shot to spike it and get it over the net, if not you could call this a free ball and play it from there.

Explanation: (1)A player can only have two hits at the net if one, the defensive player blocks a hit from the offense in an attempt to block  or spike the ball and two the offensive player hit the ball towards the blockers hand.(2) If an offensive player is set a ball and the bad set results in the miss of the ball on the 3rd hit and goes towards the defensive player then the defensive player can change from a block to a striking position. The defensive player then contacts the ball partially and then attempts to hit the ball again. This is a violation


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