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Part three of six of the study guide for volleyball blocking explains what the joust, kong block, block assist, over, and under mean.

 

Joust – A joust occurs when two players contact the ball over the net at the same time. This usually occurs between two opposing team’s blockers, or one blocker and one hitter who was trying to tip the ball over the blocker and instead the ball was set close to the net, so now both players are contacting the ball at the same time, both of them trying to push the ball into the other’s court.

 

Nine times out of ten, if two opposing players go up to contact a ball at the same time over the net, the second player to contact the ball almost always wins because they have momentum on their side. Their advantage is that they are going up and pushing over while the first player is coming down, on the way down the first player is losing momentum. Once I learned this trick I hardly ever lost a joust because I knew that all I had to do was wait as long as I could, then once I saw the other player touch the ball then I put my hands on the ball and pushed it over into the opposing court. It takes practice, timing and a quick eye but its worth saving a tip gone bad.



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