How come in Olympic indoor vollyball, people jump up to hit the ball when they are not even near it ?

Question

this is weird. when i am watching the indoor volleyball, after the 2nd hit, like 3-4 people start jumping up attempting to spike a ball that is nowhere near them. even people in the back row. i dont understand this.

Answer 1

these people that are jumping do it to throw off the other team...to fake the spike and set up for someone else. it works really well, the other team will think that its gonna get hit one way then out of nowhere the ball is on the opposite side.

Answer 2

its a fake out so the blockers will come over to them because they think they're hitting so the actual hitter will have a free space.

Answer 3

Its used as a fake. Its to confuse the players on the other side of the net as to where the ball is being hit from. Mnay younger teams could fall for this but most olympic athletes won't.  

Answer 4

Yep. It's a fake out. So that the other team doesn't know where the ball is coming from.

Answer 5

Before, during, or right after the ball is set, a slew of offensive players begin to jump and appear to attack a ball.  This is for two main reasons:

1)  Because the attacker doesn't know where the setter is going to set the ball. Sometimes the sets are so fast, especially in the middle, and sometimes on the outside that the attacker must jump slightly before the setter touches the ball.  

2)  As an act of deception.  Ultimately this is to confuse the middle blocker into blocking the wrong individual, which works at lower levels.  However, at the Olympic level, this is meant to make him adjust, and delay him from making a sealed block.  If the attacker has a large seam in the block, he's almost guaranteed a kill.  This deception also deters the correct positioning of the non-blocking defenders.

Answer 6

To fake the other team out.