In volleyball, is there a difference between setting and overhand pass?

Question

Is the overhand pass supposed 2 go farther and the set is supposed 2 be high?

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Over hand passes, when u hit them, are supposed to be hit with one hand. Setting is when u flick it with two hands. Sets are usually high so your teammates can spike it ans over handpasses are supposed to go over the net. Does that help?

Answer 3

I haven't heard of an "overhand pass" in volleyball, but then again I haven't played in about 10years. Bumps I've seen, but they are underhanded I guess you could say? Is this like beach volleyball do you mean?

Answer 4

technically there is a difference between setting and an overhead pass (I've only heard it called "overhead" not "overhand" - but in looking it up - it turns out that it's overhand) - but really, the are the same motion - you contact the ball over your head with two hands and pass the ball to another player.

So really, the difference between setting and an overhead pass is where the pass is going. If it's going to a hitter (spiker), then it's considered a "set" or "setting the ball" (which is usually, but not always, done by the setter), and probably comes from the idea that you "set them up to spike" - or in other words, pass the ball in such a way that the hitter can contact it, and send it over the net. When you set the ball - you're really sending the ball to a particular place so it can be spiked.

On the other hand, a pass is when one player hits the ball to another player. Usually passes have been underhand hits - sometimes called "bumps".

In the last several years, I think in a move to make volleyball more "fast paced" - some changes were made. One of these was to add rally scoring, another one was to allow people to "set" a serve or hard driven spike. Prior to this, if you set a serve, you almost always got called for either a carry, or a double hit.

While I'm not positive, but I think about this time, "setting" a serve or hard driven spike started getting called an "overhand pass".

But basically, they're the same thing.

hope this helps!

Answer 5

Technically, the serve is simply a push straight up and with the tips of your fingers and then the setter moves out of the way so another player spikes it... the overhand pass can go to anyone not necessarily a "hitter" or "spiker".