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2 Double Block Volleyball Skills Help Front Row Players To Block Balls

Two double block volleyball techniques help you improve blocking the ball at the net. Learn skills like how to hold your hands, how to jump and what to watch.

These 5 double block volleyball techniques will help you improve how you stop the ball at the net including how to hold your hands, how to jump and what to watch. (White and Blue Review)

These double block volleyball tips are for the traditional block jumping technique, not if you are using the swing block technique.

You dramatically improve how to block a ball when you jump straight up to block, penetrate your arms and shoulders over the net, while looking at the hitter as they hit and then to the best of your ability land in the same spot you took your block jump from.

Double Block Volleyball Techniques:
Don't Fly When You Jump

Double Block Volleyball Techniques: : Don't Fly

Some blockers jump "up" in one spot and come "down" in another one that's quite far from where they took off.

By controlling your body while you jump up to block your hitter you increase the chances of landing in the same spot from where you launched yourself in the air.

Double Block Volleyball Techniques: Some blockers jump "up" in one spot and come "down" in another one that's quite far from where they took off. (Johnston photo)

Why is this one of our more important block volleyball tips?

For several reasons...

First, because you have three defensive players behind you who are figuring out where to block a ball.

You have three defensive players behind you who have to position themselves in the back court based on where the front court blockers position themselves to block. (Matt Pendleton photo)

If your block jump is uncontrolled or if you are undisciplined in your block and you end up jumping all over the place YOUR teammates on defense aren't going to know where to set themselves up in the back court in team defense.

You can help your sisters out, if you come down in the same place that you jumped up from, every time you block a ball.

Double Block Volleyball Technique: You can help your backrow defense out, if you come down in the same place that you jumped up from, when you block a ball.

The second reason this is an important blocking tip is because the middle blocker is relying on the outside blockers to help set up a solidly "closed" blocking wall.

As you well know, walls don't move around. They stay right where they were built.

It's your job as the outside blocker to position yourself in front of your hitter's body.

Get to your position and don't jump out again or move side to side. This way your middle blocker knows exactly where she needs to come to close up the block.

Double Block Volleyball Techniques: Don't Fly (White and Blue Review)

If you 'fly' or jump to the outside you aren't maximizing your block jump effectively and you'll never be able to close up that space between you and your middle blocker.

The other team's hitter will look like a celebrity spiker hitting between that hole you created between you and your middle blocker.

Double Block Volleyball Techniques: The Iowa State hitter can hit the seam between the two blockers when they don't close the hole between them. (Ralph Arvesen)

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From Lady Vol to Legend: Coach April Honored At UTK Champions Weekend

Lady Vol volleyball legend and record holder Coach April Chapple a University of Tennessee, Knoxville Hall of Fame Inductee, 3-time All American, 3-time SEC Champion, SEC Tournament MVP, 2-time All SEC Team is celebrated with her 1984 SEC champion teammates at Neyland Stadium during Champions Weekend on November 1-2, 2024.

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Tennessee Hall of Fame inductee, Coach April Chapple is

the first First Round Draft Pick for the first American pro indoor women's league
named to the first First Team All-Pro team for Major League Volleyball in USA volleyball history
former USA National team member
one of the few American women players named as an Italian Pro League D-I Championship Finalist, Italian Cup Finalist and Cup of Cups Tournament Finalist

April Chapple The first First round Draft Pick For Major League Volleyball the first American Women's Pro League Honored At Athlete Unlimited Pro Volleyball Match

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Serving slang is not just about individual techniques; it also relates to overall game strategy. A coach might instruct a player to serve a "short serve" or a "deep serve" to target specific areas of the opponent's court or exploit weaknesses in their serve receive formation.

Ari, my private training client and I are working specifically on serving on jump float cross court serves ...short to Zone 2

There's so much we work on to get to this point where she can contact the ball with

the same toss height and same toss location
the same armswing speed
the same timing for when her serving hand contacts the ball
the middle of the hand contacting the middle of the ball every single time
getting use to watching her serving hand contact the ball at the highest point of her jump ...before she starts to land
and finally contacting the ball in the precise spot on the ball so it goes where the coach wants the player to put it so in this case ..a short serve in the farthest short right corner on the court also called Zone 2.

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