Knowing The Terms

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Knowing the Terms

Ace: A serve hit directly into the opponent’s court without them touching it resulting in an instant point.
Attack: The ability of one team at hitting the ball in an attempt to hit the ground on the opponent’s court.
Back Set: When a set is made with the setters back to the hitter
Balloon: an over inflated ball.
Block: Combination of 1,2 or 3 players jumping in front of the opposing spikier in an attempt to block the attack
Bump: Pass off your forearms
Campfire Defense: When 3 or more defenders all gather around a ball to watch it hit the ground when they each had the opportunity to dig it.
Co-Ed: A Mixture of male and female
Commit Block: Commitment to block on a predetermined hitter.
Cross Body: When a ball come from the opposite side of your hitting arm the ball is traveling cross body
Cross Court: When an offensive player hits the ball at an angle so it hits the opposite side of the opponents court.
Cut Shot: A hit that goes almost parallel to the net.
Decoy: An offensive play made to disguise the spikier who will receive the spike.
Dig: Retrieving a ball that’s close to the floor.
Dink: When a player hits a very soft shot over the net instead of a spike.
Dive: When a player lunges for the ball landing on his stomach
Double Contact: Ball touching a player twice or rolling along a part of his body.
Double Foul: Players on opposing sides fouling simultaneously
Egg: a lopsided ball.
Floater: A serve with no spin which just floats into the opponent’s court
Foul: A violation resulting in a loss of serve or point.
High Seam: To intentionally attack the ball between the hands of two blockers
Hitter: The person responsible for hitting the ball.
Hubby-Wife: When a serve lands between two passers and they both freeze assuming the other passer will get it.
Kill: A spike that cannot be returned is referred to as a kill or kill shot
Lift: Illegal hit of the ball using an open hand in an upward lift motion
Line Shot: A ball spiked along an opponents sideline closest to the hitter and most of the time outside the block
Misdirected Shot: An attack of the ball in a direction different from the alignment of your body
Off-speed Hit: When a hitter goes up very strong and rolls or tips at the last second.
Over Kill: an extreme kill especially when there's no blockers present.
Over Pass: passing the ball over the setter and usually over the net
Over Set: setting the ball over the attack approach forcing the hitter to be under the set
Over Shot: spiking the ball over the block without a touch and out of bounds
Overhead Pass: Using both hands simultaneously to contact the ball above your head directly to an intended target.
Pancake: The act of a defender placing an open hand, palm-down, on the floor, as a last-ditch effort to keep the ball from landing.
Penetration:1) Setter moving into the passing area from back row 2) The blockers ability to reach over the net into the opponent’s court.
Pipe: center alley where either the middle back charges for a back court attack from the ten feet line or the middle front charges in for a quick set.
Power Alley: cross court area where the highest percentage of spikes goes.
Quick set: A very low set that is usually hit by the middle blocker
Rally Point: A point is recorded for every single rally no matter who is serving. Unforced errors or missed serves also results in a point for the other team.
Reading: Watching the opponent’s movements to determine how to defend or attack
Ready Position: The forms one takes when he is ready to make contact with the ball.
Roll Shot: Attack the ball by putting a top spin on it with an arc to place it somewhere on the court over the blocker.
Roof: A hard block.
Scud/Shank: To mis-hit a ball (usually off the wrist) that results in a flat line drive that hits the back wall.
Serve: Used to put the ball into play behind the end line.
Service Point: Point can only be captured when your team wins a rally that you started from the serve.
Set: Where the ball is directed in a place for the spikier to hit it.
Shoot Set: A quick set to the outside hitters.
Six-Pack: When an unwitting defender takes a hard-driven ball to the face.
Sky-ball Server: To contact under the ball to create a high vertical path into the opponent’s court.
Spike: A ball contacted with force by a player on offence in an attempt to spike the ball to the floor to end the rally.
Spiking Line: A line on the court 10 feet from the centre line on each side; players in the backcourt cannot come up and spike from the area between the spiking line and the net
Stuff: A ball that is blocked and returned back to the attacking team after an attempted spike.
Tandem: A play in which one hitter comes for a quickset and the next player comes for a "2" (a slightly higher set). The ball may be set to either hitter.
Tip: Using your fingertips to hit the ball with enough force to make it over the blocker.
Tooling the block / Getting Used: Hitting off a blockers hand and out of bounds.
Top Spin: Contact which puts a bottom over the top rotation causing the ball to fall to the floor quickly.
Whoopee Cushion: an under inflated ball
Wipe: A Tool shot where a player pushes the ball into the block, then directs the ball off the blocker's arm out of bounds (usually into the antenna).
Zones: Designated areas of the court or net primarily to indicate target areas for serving


Do you know others? Let us know, we will update our master list.

[mycena]

Well I guess you caould add PELUCHE to this now. Also I saw the term BEACH DIG used the other day. And there is a thread about a SLIDE? I didn't really read that.

[coachmanzi]

Originally Posted by mycena

Well I guess you caould add PELUCHE to this now. Also I saw the term BEACH DIG used the other day. And there is a thread about a SLIDE? I didn't really read that.

yea, beach digs are huge. there's the big difference of a beach dig where you pull your arms into your body as you contact the ball and an indoor dig where your platform stays straight and angle to the target.
I think we should also put in the definitions for "East Coast Volley" and "San Diego Volley"

[Outta Town]

Tuna - when a player gets into the net either when hitting or blocking

Having Claws -When the setter throws up such an ugly set, they call it on themselves while still in motion

[30x30]

Base = Starting and ending location on the court, the switch is from defense to offense i.e. Base 1, Base 2 etc.