Thursday, January 3, 2013

Beach Volleyball - What Indoor Players Should Know About Bump Setting


There's nothing wrong with hand setting when you are first learning how to play beach volleyball. In fact, hand setting is the first thing an indoor player will want to do because they've trained to do it for so long in indoor volleyball and as a hitter I prefer getting an overhand set because I find (and many others do too) that I can time my spike approach better if I see my partner setting the ball using the traditional over the head technique. But this too is the result of years of indoor volleyball training and just like everything that you first try to learn, with practice comes improvement.
Why Bump Set The Ball In Beach Volleyball?
One of the most important beach volleyball setting rules is that a setter must face the direction where they are setting the ball. This is valid whether you are setting a ball to your teammate or whether you are shoot setting the ball across the net into the opposing team's court as an attack. So explain yourself Chapple, what does this really mean?
Face Where You Intend To Set The Ball
It simply means that a player can't have their body face one direction and then re-direct the ball outside the plane of their body in another direction to set the ball to their teammate.
So in beach volleyball, those crafty over the shoulder, or "now you see me look here, but I'm going to set the ball over there" types of sets will be called for throws by the referee as setting violations every time. Where your body faces is where you are allowed to set, either in front of you or in back of you, as long as it's within the plane of your body, that is the type of set that's allowed on the beach.
Throwing A Ball
Another reason to bump set is to avoid being called for a throw or a double contact while over hand setting. There is nothing more frustrating than to be involved in a hard fought match, going back and forth with an opposing team, getting balls up in defense, tying the score, and then at a crucial part of the game when you are tired and exhausted, being called for a throw because you were too tired to get your body directly underneath the ball to make a clean overhand set to your partner.
Instead, your hands didn't make contact with the ball at the same time so this added some uneven spin to the ball as it came out of your hands, thus (I love the word "thus') resulting in you "throwing" the ball which at the moment, when it happens feels like you just gave the ball to the opposing team for a free point.

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