Beach Volleyball Hit Characteristics

The ball may touch any part of the body, but must be hit, not caught or thrown. In particular, in defensive action of a hard driven ball, the ball can be held momentarily overhand with the fingers.

When receiving a ball from a hit that is not hard driven, the ball must be contacted "cleanly" if a player receives the ball open handed, the contact of each hand with the ball must be exactly simultaneous. In practice, this means that serves are never received open handed. When receiving an opponent's hard driven attack, a double contact provided both contacts occur in a single action or a slight lift of the ball is allowed. When employing an overhead pass as the second of three team touches usually with the intent of "setting" the ball, so that the other player may make a more effective attack-hit, the standard for a double contact fault is lower than when receiving or attacking, though still much stricter than in indoor volleyball. The standard for a lift fault during an overhand pass is less strict than in indoor games it is legal to allow the ball to come to rest for a small period of time.

Attack hits using an “open handed tip or dink” directing the ball with the fingers are illegal, as are attack hits using an overhand pass to direct the ball on a trajectory not perpendicular to the line of the shoulders overhand passes which accidentally cross over the net are an exception. These differences between the rules of indoor volleyball and beach volleyball strongly affect tactics and techniques.

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