Skills
What can a volleyball player do other than dig?
Beach volleyball
Dig &amp; Spike Volleyball Pepper (volleyball) Eric Fonoimoana Dara (game) Volleyball variations
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Dig & Spike Volleyball - known as in Japan - is a volleyball video game developed by TOSE. The player can choose either two variations: Men's indoor volleyball and Women's beach volleyball. 
In volleyball, pepper, usually used as a verb, is a very popular warm-up drill, generally involving two players. Variations with more players exist. To pepper, two players face each other separated by a distance of 5–20 feet (2–6 meters). Distances vary based upon the players' preference. Player 2 starts by hitting or tossing a volleyball to player 1. Player 1 then passes the ball back to player 2 starting the drill. Player 2 sets the ball back to player 1. Player 1 spikes the ball back, forcing player 2 to dig the ball where player 1 can set it, allowing player 2 to spike it. Player 1 passes the spiked ball, and the cycle starts over again. One full cycle of the drill is laid out in the following table.  
Eric Fonoimoana (born June 7, 1969) is an American volleyball player who currently resides in Hermosa Beach, California. He is most notable for winning the gold medal in the 2000 Olympic Games. He has earned approximately 1 million dollars playing beach volleyball. He has played professionally for more than 18 years, and has entered over 200 tournaments. Eric won at least one tournament for seven straight years between 1998 and 2004, is a former AVP Most Valuable Player and is in the top 10 in terms of all-time tournaments played. He was born in Manhattan Beach, California, and attended UCSB, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.2002 was Eric's peak year in which he reached the finals six times and won four titles with then partner Dax Holdren. In this year Eric was named the AVP's Most Valuable Player. In the spring of 2000, Eric founded the Dig for Kids charitable foundation which helps kids in inner cities excel in school, volleyball and other athletics. Dig 4 Kids has helped over 2,450 children learn the importance of education and physical fitness. Fonoimoana's partner for the Olympic Gold was Dain Blanton. Eric Fonoimoana is now semi-retired and is a real estate professional in the South Bay area of Los Angeles, California. He still remains active in the volleyball community online via the interactive instructional volleyball website Volleyball 1on1, where Eric maintains a presence on their instructional volleyball videos section. 
The board is a 5x6 square board. Each player has 12 pieces. One player plays Black and the other plays White, however, any two colors will do. In Niger, people simply dig out 30 holes in the sand; one side takes doum nuts, the other short sticks. 
Nine-man volleyball is a variation of volleyball utilizing nine players and a slightly larger court (10 by 20 meters) originated in Asia in the 1920s when American missionaries introduced the game in China. The birthplace of 9man can be speculated to be the city of Tai-Shan, China where 9man tournaments are played regularly, sometimes even for prize money. 9man is also played for recreation in South Korea. The variant became popular within the Chinese-American communities community in New York City and spread to Chinatowns other large US and Canadian cities. The North American version of 9man volleyball continues to grow with a rotating popular tournament called the North American Chinese Invitational Volleyball Tournament. It was played in the Asian Games in 1958 and in 1962. Aside from the larger court and additional players, rule differences for 9man volleyball in Asia and of those used in the NACIVT differ. The major rule differences from indoor volleyball and NACIVT 9man rules include (Those rules in italics only apply within NACIVT rules): A lower net (235 cm rather than 243). "Players don't rotate--front players stay in front (and thus never serve), and back players in back." If the ball touches the net between two contacts by the same team, those two contacts only count as one of the three allowed before the ball must be sent over the net. The same player may legally make both contacts. "It is permitted to briefly carry the ball during a spiking motion." "Players may not penetrate the plane of the net while blocking." If a player touches the ball while blocking, it counts as one of the three allowed contacts. "Jump serving is illegal." It is illegal to touch the ball with any body part besides the hands and arms. A served ball which hits the top of the net and falls inside the boundaries of the opponents' court entitles the server to a second chance (like tennis). There is no "ten foot line": any player may attack the ball from anywhere on the court. 9man rules used in Asia are slightly different: Players do not rotate, however every player on the court must serve at some point. Carrying or lifts are not legal. Players may penetrate the plane of the net when blocking. Jump-serving is legal. In South Korea, nine-man volleyball is popular as a recreation. But those who plays it are not used to the detailed rule of the game because they generally watch only 6-man volleyball (standard volleyball) on TV or somewhere. So the rule generally played tends to be the mixture of the original 9-man volleyball and standard volleyball. 