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Originally Posted by mbyron
Can you elaborate on this please? I see that the definition of "Block" in 9-5-1c does not mention the position of the ball, but it does include the phrase "reaching higher than the top of the net at the moment of contact." If a ball is tipped over the block, the girl is on the way down, and contacts the ball waist high behind her, that's a block if ... what... her head is still above the top of the net?
I'm a second year official and just trying to grasp this. Thanks.
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In your example, yes. Also, let's say hands are above the net, but the ball is hit into a shoulder while hands are still above the net...even though the body part that is above the net doesn't contact the ball, the contact occurs while a body part is above the net. This constitutes a block, by rule.
Again, the body part actually contacting the ball need not be above the net, and the ball doesn't necessarily have to be above the net for a block to occur.