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What Constitutes Double Contact When Receiving a Volleyball Serve?

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I know the rule changed in the past few years to allow you to double contact the ball when receiving a serve, but are there any limitations on that? For instance if you play the ball off your arms and it comes up and hits you in the face, is that still a permissible double contact? Please include a source that I can look at.

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  1. The short answer to your question about Double Contact is:

    The player hit the ball in "two separate actions".

    FIVB rule stated that (http://www.fivb.com/EN/Volleyball/Rules/...

    9.2.3.2 at the first hit of the team, the ball may contact various parts of the body consecutively provided that the contacts occur during one action.

    FIVB Case Book (Ch.4.3, http://www.fivb.com/EN/Volleyball/Rules/... recorded a player took hit on left arm then right arm then chest in one action, and was not called. It concluded that...

    There are a number of "first hit" cases in

    which successive contacts are allowed.

    Among these are:

    1. Reception of the service.

    2. Reception of an attack hit. This can be

    either a soft or a hard attack.

    3. Reception of a ball blocked by one's

    own team.

    4. Reception of a ball blocked by the

    opponent.

    Rule 9.2.3.2


  2. go to usavolleyball.org (USA Volleyball Web site) where you can pull up a rule book.  this is where you can get the exact verbiage of what you are looking at.  But what you described is a legal contact.  The rule allows you to multiple contact ANY first ball over the net.  This means if you were trying to play the ball in one action, and it had multiple contacts - hand hand, face, it is legal.  Just as long as you were making one attempt on the ball.

  3. Double contact is okay - its PROLONG contact that is the problem.   Ugly is okay - holding the ball too long is not.....

  4. The three answers above are great and correct.  (Finally)  Other times this question has been asked, it has been filled with dozens of incorrect answers.  

    I will attempt to explain it differently to help make sense.  Many players and coaches have trouble with this rule.

    If you hit the ball as you described, it is legal.  You can hit the ball with your forearms and then your face if it is one action playing the ball AND it is the first attempt by your team to play the ball.  The tip off the block does not count as an attempt to play the ball.  

    If you hit the ball with your forearms and the ball pops up in the air and then comes down and hits you in the face, it will be called as an illegal double hit.  

    If you have any more questions, please feel free to email me.

  5. technically, in mens, any double contact is ok, such as purposefully putting your hands half a foot lobsided, then letting the ball hit one hand then the other (not saying thats a good way to return a serve, but its technically legal) and for what your talking about, yes, at any time, on the first hit of the over (return of serve or dig of spike for ex) as long as its in one motion its considered legal. If the ball hits off your arms then hits you in the face on the way up, its legal but for ex, if it hits your left arm, then its going out of bounds and you hit it with your right arm, thats still not legal.    hope that makes sense

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