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Sunday, April 19th I coached the SQUAD VBC Girls 18s team to a 5-0 finish and gold medal winning our bracket at the SCSN Girls -18s Championships.Sunday, April 19th I coached the SQUAD VBC Girls 18s team to a 5-0 finish and gold medal winning our bracket at the SCSN Girls -18s Championships.
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- Volleyball Drills For Serving Overhand, Float and Jump Serve Technique
- Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater
Drills And Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater
Use my training videos of exercises to improve volleyball serve skills we do in my clinics, Boot Camp classes, one on one private and semiprivate trainings.
On this page I have a collection of drills and exercises to improve volleyball serve skills which we do in private training and boot camp classes.
You're going to want to use these to do at home and on your own because serving is something you can do ..in order to get more playing time.
How can you improve your volleyball serving?
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Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater
Timed Serving Drill Two Minutes To Get 10 Serves in - 5 To Zone One and Five To Zone Five
Drills And Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater
Jump Serving Training
Volleyball Drills To Improve Serving - Jump Serving Training With a Four Step Approach Facing Where You Want to Serve
Volleyball Drills And Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater
The Standing Float Serve
Work on Serving Down The Line in Happy Hour with Coach April
Volleyball Drills And Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater
Timed Drills
Three Minutes To Serve 15 Balls To Three Different Zones on the Court
Volleyball Drills And Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater:
Jump Serve Practice
Repetitions During Happy Hour with Coach April
Volleyball Drills And Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater:
Jump Serving the 5/6 Seam
Jump Serving the 5/6 Seam in Serve Receive in Happy Hour with Coach April
Volleyball Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills with Coach April
Serving Short Inside The 10 Ft Line Serving Timed Drills
Drills And Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater: Attacking With Your Serve
Coaching Volleyball Serving in Vegas: Attacking With Your Serve
Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater: The Toss
How To Serve A Volleyball What To Do With Your Upper Body
Volleyball Exercises To Improve Volleyball Serve Skills For A Floater:
Full Court Cross Court Serve and Pass Drill
- Two passing lines- Left Back and right back
- Two players on deck behind them in each line
- Two servers on the opposite court
- Two servers behind them on deck
- One target on the passer side
Both servers alternate and take turns serving cross court.
👉🏾Passer passes and then follows the passed ball to become the new target.
👉🏾Target catches passed ball and goes under the net cross court to serve.
👉🏾Server after their serve runs along their nearest sideline to get into the passing line on the other side.
After 2-3 minute warmup , start a count/set a goal for 50 good settable balls.
Variations you can try:
- with a time limit (50 settable passes in 3/4/5 minutes)
- At 30 passes two shanks in a row is minus 1
- At 30 passes no overhead passing
- At 40 passes one passing error is minus 1
- At 30 or 40 passes servers can mix in short cross court serves
- At 45 passes one passing error is minus 2
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I share alot of individual, partner and easy-to-do volleyball serving drills we do in class with my followers.
Many of these volleyball practice drills you can do at home by yourself or try at your next practice with your teammates.
If you're a B team or JV player trying to make varsity next year...your goal should be to complete 1000 reps a day of at least three of the basic skills on your own...volleyball passing, serving and setting should be at the top of the list.
Volleyball Drills:
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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.
- 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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