Double Contact
A ball-handling fault on your second and third team contacts when the ball clearly leaves your hands in two pieces or rolls across your body at different times. On the first touch after serve, free ball, or an attack, FIVB allows finger spread and a messy platform because pace makes perfect shape unrealistic. The moment you are setting, that forgiveness disappears, which is where tight mechanics matter.
Example
The overhand set spins hard off the hands on second contact, and the ref flashes two hits. The same spin on a first-touch dig would have been fine.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is a double contact in volleyball?
It is a double hit: two clean motions or two parts of the body in sequence. Legal on the first play of the ball for your team, illegal when you are trying to set or on any later touch.
Can you double contact on the first touch in volleyball?
Yes. FIVB Casebook language repeatedly backs this on reception of serve or a ball coming at terminal velocity. You still cannot lift the ball, but a rolling contact as long as the ball does not rest is not automatically a double.