Successive contact of the ball are 2 separate touches of the ball by one player with no interrupting touch by a different player between the two touches, and is allowed on the block, when the player who blocked the ball can contact it again and this will be the first of 3 hits allowed for his team. Multiple contacts of the ball are touches by a player during 1 play on the ball. It is an illegal multiple contact when a ball rebounds from the hand to forearm, hand to hand, forearm to forearm, or forearm to hand. Dangerous contact with equipment , such as cables, standards or the official's stand is illegal. Legal Hits - A legal hit is contact with the ball by a player's body above and including the waist which does not allow the ball to visibly come to rest, even momentarily.
Legal hits includes setting, bumping, dinking, blocking, and spiking.
If, during contact, the ball visibly becomes motionless or in a state of inactivity, the hit is illegal. Holding, catching, throwing, lifting, and pushing are illegal hits because the ball becomes motionless. A ball rolling up the arm is also illegal because of the prolonged contact with the ball. Back-line players , while positioned behind the spiking line, may contact the ball from any position inside or outside the court, above or below the top of the net. It is the position of the part of the body touching the floor that is considered when determining overlapping between adjacent players.