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The Spike in Volleyball Learn 7 Ways To Improve Your Hitting Skills

Using the block is one of the hitting skills spikers need to know in order to score more points in offense with their spike in volleyball for their team.

The Spike in Volleyball: "Wiping or using the block" is a hitting skill where a spiker aims the ball for the outside hand of the blocker. (Ralph Aversen)

Volleyball Skills Attack Strategies Hitters Need To Know

"Using the block" is one of the most important attacking skills a hitter uses in against big blockers to score points in the front row.

When a hitter decides to

use the block
use the blockers hands
wipe the block

these volleyball phrases all mean that they will wipe the outside hand of the blocker with the ball in order to score a point.

If you want to improve your volleyball hitting percentage you should work hard on this skill in your practice during blocking drills because its very effective, especially for smaller outside hitters

who face big blockers and
who need a hitting option

they can rely on

when they can't hit over or
hit the ball past the block.

Volleyball Skills Attack Strategies: Using the block Creighton hitter aiming for the blockers outside hand (Photo White and Blue Review)

This is a way to use the block to your advantage.

The "wiping or using the block" is a hitting technique is based on a spiker learning how to spike a volleyball in a way that they aim the ball for the outside hand of the blocker that's closest to the antenna,.

After the ball is deflected off of the outside hand of the blocker it bounces outside the court lines.

Since the blocker is the last person to touch the ball then this is a point for the hitter and the team that's on offense.

Volleyball Skills Attack Strategies
Why Is Using The Block So Effective?

The Spike in Volleyball: If #13 blue hits the ball off the outside blocker's (#1) left outside hand this becomes very difficult for the digger (#13 white) behind her to pick up. (Ralph Aversen))

"Using the block" is one of the most effective attack strategies for the spike in volleyball because the defensive player playing behind the blocker who's hand last touched the ball, will find it very difficult to defend or dig a ball up that's already on it's way outside of the court's boundary lines.

"Using the block" is one of the most effective spike in volleyball strategies to score points because the defensive player playing behind the blocker touches the ball last. (Joy Van Buhler)

With this blocking volleyball form, the blocker increases the chances of the hitter using her block because her body and her hands are facing and moving outside the court instead of facing and moving inside the court.

This is exactly how "using the block" makes it easier for the hitter to aim for the blocker's hands.

If the Michigan hitter in the white jersey swings and aims the ball for her left hand, the ball will bounce off her hand and then out of bounds.

This would be a point for the hitter, because she used the blocker's own hands with her spike in volleyball to score a point for the offense.

Thanks for visiting. Be sure to check out more of my volleyball passing articles by clicking one of the links below! (April Chapple)

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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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