Basic violations for beginners – Volleyball Guidelines
Most new players to volleyball have the spirit and determination to play but usually lack the knowledge and know-how of the game. If not knowing what to do is one of your worries than we have got just the right cure for you. In this article, we will be educating
you about the basic violations in volleyball and explaining them in detail so that you may avoid making them on the court.
We will start from the basic violations and then touch upon the more complicated ones as we move forward:
Volleyball is a team sport and the players must work as a team to achieve their target, which is to avoid the opponents from scoring a point and trying your best to score. Therefore, when a ball comes to your end of the court, you must act as a team to accomplish
these goals. For this reason, it is not allowed for a player to make consecutive hits on the ball. This does not mean that you can only hit the ball only once when it comes to your end of the court. You can make the third hit too after you have made the first
one. However, there is a relaxation to this rule if consecutive contacts are made by a team at its first contact with the ball. In that case, a player can hit the ball more than once only if the contacts are made during one particular action.
This brings us to the second violation. A team is only allowed to make three hits on the ball at the most. When the ball comes to your end of the court, it should be sent back within three hits time. It would not be a violation if the ball is sent back on
the first or the second hit but it would be categorized as a foul if a team makes a fourth hit on the ball.
Beginners usually confuse volleyball with throw ball in which the players are allowed to hold the ball for some time before sending it off to the opponent’s end of the court. In volleyball, the concept is not to hold but to make a hit. Therefore, if a players
catches a ball, that would be counted as a foul. Likewise, when a player is making a hit, he or she is not supposed to be helped physically by another team-mate while doing so. Neither can the player take the assistance of an object in order to make the hit.
When a team is successful in sending the ball across to the other side, care should be taken that it is sent in the appropriate fashion. The net acts as a guideline and defines the boundaries of the crossing over of the ball. On each side of the net, there
are linear extensions called the antennas. While the ball is going over to the other side, it should stay within the boundaries of these antennas. The ball should not be thrown so high that it touches the ceiling of the gym, which would be a violation. And
of course, the ball should be thrown over the net and not under it.
These were some of the basic violations in volleyball. Come back for our next article on more advanced rules.
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