Solid Serving
Volleyball Tips For Girls: Top 5 Reasons Why You May Have A Wimpy Serve
Smart volleyball players know that serving is the volleyball game’s “equalizer” because from start to finish you and only you control every aspect and especially the outcome of the volleyball serve. The best part is that it doesn’t matter how tall, how wide or how short you are, if you develop a tough serve that makes points consistently you are guaranteed to see regular playing time on the volleyball court.
1. My first volleyball serving tip: To improve your serve you need to mentally decide to attack with your serve.
A lot of volleyball players with inconsistent or ineffective serves need to first change their mind set about serving. You need to first change the way you think about serving a volleyball. For most champions, volleyball serving isn’t about just getting the ball over the net so the other team can start the play. On the contrary, you start “the play” with the serve meaning your serve needs to be used as the first “line of attack” you make against the opposing team. You need to think and be aggressive and learn to “attack” with your serve. This is a mental process first. Decide to be aggressive with your serve. Then in practice, you should practice making high velocity tough attack serves, not wimpy ones.
2. My second volleyball tip: Keep your elbow high, just like when you spike, in order to improve your serving accuracy.
One of the first things I look for when a player complains about serving into the volleyball net a lot, is how high they keep their elbow when they serve. It doesn’t matter whether you use a bow and arrow armswing or a simulation spike to serve the volleyball…(that’s what I call it) if you drop your elbow when you serve, your ball will rarely clear the net. Your elbow needs to be high …always above the level of your ear. Then you need to speed up your armwsing and reach.
3. My third tip is: A low toss or inconsistent toss will negatively affect your volleyball serving skill.
This is the second place I look to check for weak wimpy serves. If your toss is low then that means you have to go chase your ball, which knocks you into an off balanced position. Because the toss is low in order to recover and make something happen you usually lean forward…which forces you to drop your elbow, which means you contact the ball below the level of net and so the ball won’t clear the net. Or if one time you toss to the right of your front foot, then another time two feet over to the left you will never create a system for yourself so you can consistently serve tough.
To improve your serving skill it’s necessary to create a “ritual” where you toss the volleyball the same way every time you serve. I point my foot exactly in the direction of where I’m going to serve then with an open palmed left hand I toss the ball two feet above my head and one foot in front of my front foot. How do I know these measurements? Because at home or by myself I practiced my toss, just my toss for hundreds of reps. Two feet up, one foot in front. Let the volleyball drop without swinging at it to make sure it lands in front of the toe of your front foot. Why? This keeps your body balanced so all you have to do is transfer the weight from your back foot to your front foot, quicken your armswing and make solid contact with the ball.
4. My fourth tip: Facing your target will greatly improve your volleyball serving skill.
Some players think its really sneaky to try and fake out the serve receive by not showing where they are going to serve. On the contrary I say…let everybody know where you are going to serve. Face Your Target. I’m talking about the floater serve, here. Place everything that you have, your feet, hips, shoulders, tossed ball in the direction of where you plan to serve. Face that player or that space on the court and just let it Go! If ALL your energy is going in one direction you can create more force than if different parts of your body are going in different directions. If everything is all lined up in one direction and balanced then you can focus on one last element.
5. My last serving volleyball tip: Make solid contact with the volleyball.
If you don’t make solid contact right in the middle of the panels facing you then you probably won’t get that tough floater serve you are looking for. Contact on the sides gives the ball side spin and contacting the ball too low gives a back spin which is usually pretty easy for the opposing team to pass. In practice watching where you contact the ball helps you improve your ball contact which automatically helps to improve your volleyball serving skill.
Remember the volleyball is in your court!
About the Author
April Chapple is the editor of Inspiring Female Volleyball Players.com and the volleyball news hub Volleyball Voices.com. More information for volleyball tips players can be found at http://www.inspiring-female-volleyball-players.com/volleyball-tips.html. Copyright: You may freely republish this article, provided the text, author credit, the active links and this copyright notice remain intact.
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