USHA Four-Wall Abridged Rules · American four-wall
Fault serve
HistoricalUSHA Four-Wall Abridged Rules, May 2010 (historical)
USHA rules text used with permission of the U.S. Handball Association (ushandball.org); credit: U.S. Handball Association. Source: ushandball.org
If a player hits a fault serve, he/she has a second change to make a good serve. Two consecutive faults results in an out (loss of serve). Types of fault serves include:
Short Serve – a serve that rebounds from the front wall and bounces on the floor on or in front of the short line.
Long Serve – a serve that rebound from the front wall and either contacts the back wall (if playing on a four-wall court) or bounces outside of the long line (if playing on a one or three wall court) before hitting the floor.
Three Wall or Ceiling Serve (if playing on a three or four wall court): a serve that hits the front wall and then hits any other walls before hitting the floor.
Foot Fault Serve – the server does not start and complete the serve from within the service zone before the ball rebounds past the short line.
Mentioned here
- Server (actor)
- Player (actor)
- Serve (action)
- Fault serve (action)
- Short serve (action)
- Long serve (action)
- Foot fault (action)
- Court (place)
- Front wall (place)
- Back wall (place)
- Ceiling (place)
- Short line (place)
- Long line (place)
- Service zone (place)
- Ball (thing)
- Three-wall (game)
- Four-wall (game)
- Wall (thing)
- Floor (thing)
How these ideas connect in this rule
- Actor
- Action
- Place
- Thing
- Game
- related term
- mentioned together in sub-rules (×number)
- Server relates to Player: mentioned together in 2 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Serve: mentioned together in 4 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Front wall: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Ball: mentioned together in 5 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Wall: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Server relates to Floor: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Player relates to Ball: mentioned together in 4 sub-rules.
- Player relates to Wall: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Serve relates to Front wall: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Serve relates to Ball: mentioned together in 4 sub-rules.
- Serve relates to Wall: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Ball: mentioned together in 4 sub-rules.
- Front wall relates to Wall: mentioned together in 4 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Wall: mentioned together in 5 sub-rules.
- Ball relates to Floor: mentioned together in 3 sub-rules.
No link to the other terms shown: Fault serve, Foot fault, Long serve, Short serve, Service zone, Short line, Four-wall. 14 weaker links (terms mentioned together in few sub-rules) are not drawn. 5 more terms are mentioned but not drawn (the best linked 14 are shown). Open the full graph.