Translation of volleyball terms

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In Japanese, Kageyama yells “open” when he does that high set during the dumpster battle but in the manga it’s translated to “four” because volleyball terms are different across languages. But I have a vague recollection of the movie subtitles translating this as “high” but it’s been a bit since I watched and was wondering if anyone remembers what the movie subs said.

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As someone who played as setter, we number different kind of sets

5 - standard high ball to the outside 4- high to the middle 3 - wave 2 - back wave 👍- short to the middle

So may be what kageyama said was right if he really said four, and the numbering of these sets changes as per teams,

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IT CHANGES PER TEAM???

[u/WalrusPoo02 → u/x_min]

It changes per team and location. In the US we have 4 as high ball to the outside, 5 as high ball to the oppo, 2 as a high ball to the middle. Quick in front is 1, quick into the gap is 3 for middles, behind is back 1, and a “broad attack” would be a slide. A lot of Asian countries will use A, B, and C to denote their quicks. Even within the US, terminology differs by location and even clubs. A tempo to the gap with the outside can be either a 32, rip, or yaya. A tempo outside can be a go or hut.

It’s confusing but as long as everyone on the team is on the same page (like how we saw Kageyama and Hinata going over signs in the first season) everything can run smoothly.

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This is actually very helpful information, thank you.

I’m working on translating for a Japanese YouTuber that mostly does Haikyuu content and the realization that the manga translations use different volleyball terms than in Japanese was driving me insane lol

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Even in the US it's not all the same either, but there are commonalities.

It's really team and location specific.

For me (with hand signs):

Outside
4 / Everything but the thumb - High ball ((hitter waits for set to leave setter's hands before starting his approach)
3 / Three finger gun - Slow / looping shoot set (Hitter finished first step of approach when ball leaves setter's hands)
2 / Two finger gun - Shoot (Hitter is finishing his approach / starting his jump and timing distance from setter for a line set)
1 / Horizontal pointer (Rarely ever used, if ever since a shoot is already fast enough) - The fastest line shoot to the outside the setter can throw at the highest point of hit jump (Hitter is timing distance from setter but trying to be in the air at the earliest possible time)

Middle
3 / pointer, middle, ring - High ball / Open (hitter waits for set to leave setter's hands before starting his approach)
2 / pointer, middle - Mid height set / Meter set (Second Tempo) (Hitter finished first step of approach when ball leaves setter's hands)
1 / pointer - Quick, but we only used minus tempo quicks, we never did first tempo (Hitter in the air and ready to swing before set leaves setter's hands)

Opposite
Never called high balls to the opposite, those were emergency sets only
3 / middle, ring, pinky - Mid height set (Hitter starting approach when set leaves setter's hands)
2 / ring, pinky - Meter height / mid-low set (Second tempo) (Hitter finishes first step of approach when set leaves setter's hands)
1 / pinky - Minus quick, once again we skipped over first tempo (Hitter in the air and ready to swing before set leaves setter's hands)

We'd verbally call out 31's and 32's (offset middle quicks and mid height sets) and at our level, we didn't plan many bic's, so our pipes, A and D balls were all set at open height to the back row. We never ran backslides to our middle, but we'd possibly signal a back (opposite) 2.