Ball Handling
- AVP, Olympic Beach and Indoor, NCAA Men and Women
- Players can contact the ball with any part of the body
- Olympic Indoor
- Double contact permitted on first contact
- AVP and Olympic Beach
- Hard driven ball may be held momentarily.
- No open-handed tips or dinks.
- Hard driven ball may be held momentarily.
Time Outs and Substitutions
- Olympic Indoor
- Each team gets two time outs (30 seconds each) per set
- Each team gets six subs (libero position has unlimited subs.)
- A player may enter and exit the game only once each.
- In sets 1-4, two additional 60 second technical time outs are automatically taken when the leading team reaches eight and 16 points.
- Each team gets two time outs (30 seconds each) per set
- AVP and Olympic Beach
- Each team gets one 30-second time out per set
- Each team gets one injury time out per player per match.
- No substitutions.
- In FIVB world events there is one 30-second technical time out in sets one and two when the sum of points reaches 21.
- Each team gets one 30-second time out per set
- NCAA Men and Women
- Each team gets two 60-second time outs per set
- One media time out (75-90 secs.) per set can be taken at the discretion of host school when lead team reaches 15 points in sets 1-4 (or 8 points in set five) unless a team time out has been called prior to that point.
- Each team gets 12 subs per set.
- The same player can enter and exit the game an unlimited amount of times within the twelve-sub limit.
- Each team gets two 60-second time outs per set
Playing Actions
- Olympic Indoor
- Block does not count as a hit.
- Cannot attack a libero set.
- Block does not count as a hit.
- AVP and Olympic Beach
- Block counts as a hit.
- NCAA Men and Women
- Block does not count as a hit.
- Libero may serve in one position in rotation.
- Players may attack a libero set if made from behind Three Meter line.
- Block does not count as a hit.
