2nd referee signal end of timeout
 

I'm fairly new to volleyball officiating and I have a question regarding signaling the end of a timeout. I was trained to sound a long blast of the whistle at the end of the timeout. However, last week, a veteran official advised me to blow two short blasts instead. Her reasoning was that the server would not accidently confuse that with the call to serve.

Your thoughts?

Thanks for the replies.

My process is as follows:

A short and long whistle to start (tweet tweeeeeeet), and to end, one long whistle (tweeeeeeeeet). The rationale behind using one long whistle to end, and I agree, is that you're essentially taking the the place of the horn ending the time out.

I've heard her rationale before, and I think this is one of the many techniques where you'll always hear differences. What's most important is that you differentiate the tone so it doesn't sound like the service whistle.

I have been trained in the same manner...two short tweets to signal the end of the timeout.

However, I only do this if the buzzer does not sound. I was told that there must be an audible signal to end the timeout...correct?

In NY, we use the NCAA rules/mechanics set, and this is our TO procedure:

Long blast making the 'T' on the timeout side

Take the ball from whomever has it, put it on the table

Check with SK for correct # of timeouts

give quick CASUAL TO status to R1

At :45 2 quick blows to get both teams back out

give FORMAL timeout status to R1 - who mimics

THEN give ball back to serving team, handing game back to R1 with hand


the short blasts at :45 are quite sufficient...

I do something similar, only my start and end whistle is the same. Tweet Tweeeeeeet. I only use a single whistle when I'm ending a rally, like with a net violation. Double whistle on all game interruptions for me; short whistles for subs, different double whistle for timeouts.

Couldn't agree more.

Ditto Mr. Madera. And yes, the horn or whistle must end the timeout.

I used to have the same whistle for starting and ending a TO, but then someone told me to change my ending one to single with the rationale of replacing the horn.

Nuances at their best.