Overhand with fingers serve receive attack

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Relevant rules
9.3 Faults in playing the ball
9.3.3 CATCH: the ball is caught and/or thrown; it does not rebound from the hit. (Exceptions 9.2.2.1, 9.2.2.2).
9.3.4 DOUBLE CONTACT: a player hits the ball twice in succession or the ball contacts various parts of his/her body in succession.
13.2 Faults of the attack hit
13.2.5 A player completes an attack-hit using an overhand pass which has a trajectory not perpendicular to the line of the shoulders. The exception is when the player is attempting to set to his or her teammate.

[@nielscremer599]

Absolutely legal, absolutely beautiful!

[@bluepawn]

when you have a stupid serve... ^^

[@rickeyrock93]

but is it a legal action that he contacted the ball below his head? i thought the rules have changed similar to indoor, how a set or overhead pass should look like

[@SimasSkilinskas]

does the rule talk about ball position relative to the players head? no. And rules haven't changed, its just reminded and more explanations are added.

[@rickeyrock93]

@@SimasSkilinskas can you send me the rule pls? thx

[@SimasSkilinskas]

@@rickeyrock93
9.3 Faults in playing the ball
9.3.3 CATCH: the ball is caught and/or thrown; it does not rebound from the hit. (Exceptions 9.2.2.1, 9.2.2.2).
9.3.4 DOUBLE CONTACT: a player hits the ball twice in succession or the ball contacts various parts of his/her body in succession.
13.2 Faults of the attack hit
13.2.5 A player completes an attack-hit using an overhand pass which has a trajectory not perpendicular to the line of the shoulders. The exception is when the player is attempting to set to his or her teammate.
www.fivb.com/en/beachvolleyball/thegame_bvb_glossary/officialrulesofthegames

[@rickeyrock93]

@@SimasSkilinskas thanks a lot!

[@juhotukiainen414]

Isn’t that illegal to do the first touch after a serve needs to be hard one without fingers?

[@SimasSkilinskas]

Could you find the rule that would make this illegal and would be specific to first touch?

[@juhotukiainen414]

@@SimasSkilinskas nevermind my bad it was an attack straight after serve😅

[@RoyalsRP]

For the record, you can use your fingers on first contact but it is judged the same as second contact (it needs to come out "clean"/not doubled). The exception is if the ball was dug in a "reactionary" fashion, from a "hard-driven" attacked ball. Serves are never considered hard-driven.

[@emrahagca99]

​@@RoyalsRPif it is a jump serve they could be :)

[@RoyalsRP]

@@emrahagca99 I think the interpretation is that serves are never considered hard driven. It doesn't matter the speed of the serve. You could serve a ball faster than you could hit it and it's still not hard driven because you have time to get to it (because it had to travel from the opponent's sideline). Someone correct me of I'm wrong but I'm pretty sure that interpretation is right