Volleyball Techniques For Beginner - Volleyball Digging

(Volleyball Techniques For Beginner)

Start in a defensive position lined up around the block. Know what area your blockers are going to take up (line or angle).

• The basics of volleyball techniques for digging...
• Be up on your toes and on the balls of your feet, not on your heels.
• Be ready to get in a stable position to dig a hard driven ball.
• Be ready to move to run down a shot or tip.
• Arms are bent and in front of you ready to react to dig a ball with your forearms or to play a ball overhead.
• Eyes are focused on the hitter watching for any hint as to what they are going to do.

Volleyball Techniques For Beginners - Volleyball Digging

Cushion hard driven balls. You should try to absorb the hit with your arms to keep the ball on your side of the net.

If you can keep the ball on your side, your team has a better chance of winning the rally with your setter setting an attacker.

Volleyball techniques for going to the floor. Players are encouraged to stay on their feet when making plays on the ball.

For making emergency plays, there are five common techniques...

• Collapse. From a low defensive position, a player might collapse to the ground in order to make a last second move to play the ball. The collapse is used most often when a ball falls shorter than anticipated.

• Sprawl. Anticipating the ball falling out in front of them, a defender might use the sprawling technique to take a lunge forward and reach to make a play.

        Sprawling volleyball techniques are just like the collapse except the defender has time to take a step and reach.

• The dive. This is similar to the sprawl except the body is more in an airborne position when making a the play.

• Pancake. Defensive players can perform a pancake to save a ball from hitting the floor. The pancake is similar to a sprawl except the fingers are spread firmly and placed on the ground to meet the ball.

        Pancaking can be one of the good volleyball techniques of playing a ball because if you perform a good pancake, you often will get a good bounce that will allow your teammates to keep the ball in play.

• Shoulder or barrel roll. Defenders can often use a rolling technique by extending to the right, left, or forward in attempting to get the ball up by playing the ball close to the floor.

         After playing the ball the players use their momentum to roll over their body and regain their balance in a position ready to move.

         Rolling is probably the safest of the emergency volleyball techniques because players don't really hit the ground hard.