Gone are the days when you had to worry about the right word to pick when having a volleyball conversation. You no longer have to bend your forehead in concentration to in order to understand what the commentator means when he uses all those fancy words.
We have made your life easy and explained the most commonly used terminologies ranging from the letter T to Y, in a way that you will never forget them.
The first one that we have for you is a Tip. It is as simple as it sounds. A player tips the ball when she touches it with her fingertips and gives it a gentle push. See? Its not that hard, is it? Let’s try the next one. It often happens
during play that a player gets into contact with the net. This is against the rules and is considered a foul. However, when the net violation is done very blatantly, that player is termed as a
Tuna. The analogy, of course, is that of a fish being caught up in the net. A more skilful display of volleyball is when a player performs a
Tool. It is done by one of the front row players. She hits the ball off the hands of the opposing team’s blocker and makes it go out of bounds, giving the advantage to her team.
T volleyball term that does not play out well for a team is the Team
Advil. As the name suggests, the term is used to identify two teammates who are constantly bickering with each other. More often then not, these players are made the target for attack by the opposing team. A more constructive way to act is
in Tandem. This is an attacking strategy used by a team to confuse the opponents. It is when one player attacks directly behind another. The blockers of the opposing team have a hard time figuring out which player is going to lunge for the
attack.
So much for the Ts, now for the Us of volleyball. Let’s enter the UC State first. This is the state of mind a team goes into when they are playing flawlessly. During such performance, a team is able to secure a considerable lead over the
opposing team. Another applaud able feat is an Up. This is accomplished by a player instead of the team. A player makes a successful attempt by doing anything possible to keep the ball from hitting the floor.
From the Us, we will be jumping on to the Ws directly because there aren’t any Vs that you should know of except for volleyball. We have assumed that you are familiar with that term. You must also be familiar with a
Whale. But the term has a different meaning when applied to volleyball. A
Whale is to make a hit at a ball which is given to a player by a teammate, without regard to where it goes. This can result in giving a point to the opposing team and making your own coach very angry. Another W hit that may not land a good
impression is the one made by a player’s Weak Side. If a player is right-handed, then she is going to have a weak side if she is standing on the right front position. Likewise, in case a player is left-handed, then her weak side is going to
be at a position where she is on the left and up in the front.
This leaves us with the last significant term that is commonly used in volleyball. It is the
Yellow Card. As in any other game, this is given as a warning to a player if she breaks the rules or does some misconduct. In case a player receives two yellow cards in a match, she is disqualified from it.
This brings us to the end of volleyball terminologies. We have explained the most commonly used ones in detail. Hopefully, this should enable you to have a decent volleyball conversation with expertise.
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