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Types of Volleyball Serves What's A Float, Jump Float, Spin, Jump Spin

What're the types of volleyball serves like the standing float serve, the jump float where you add spike approach footwork and the topspin and jump spin serves.

Volleyball Serves What're The 4 Types of Overhand Serves in Volleyball: The overhand jump float serve is one of the volleyball serves we learn in Boot Camp Class. (JMR Photography)

What're the types of volleyball serves like the standing float serve, the jump float where you add spike approach footwork and the topspin and jump spin serves: The overhand jump float serve is one of the volleyball serves we learn in Boot Camp Class. (JMR Photography)

There are four types of overhand volleyball serves most commonly used in advanced competition like varsity high school games, college games, beach tournaments and national and international matches.

overhand serve - standing float serve
overhand serve - top spin serve
overhand jump float serve
overhand jump spin serve

The Overhand Standing Float Serve

Volleyball Serves: The overhand serve in volleyball requires you to toss the ball higher in the air before contacting it with an open hand above your head. (John O'Brien)

Types of Volleyball Serves What's A Float, Jump Float, Spin, Jump Spin: The overhand serve in volleyball requires you to toss the ball higher in the air before contacting it with an open hand above your head. (John O'Brien)

The Overhand Standing Float Serve

The overhand standing float serve in volleyball requires

you to toss the ball higher in the air with your tossing arm - for right handers this is your left arm before
contacting it with an open hand above your head, like a tennis player uses a racket to contact the ball above their head.

Types of Volleyball Serves What's A Float, Jump Float, Spin, Jump Spin:
How To Overhand Float Serve in Volleyball

How To Overhand Float Serve in Volleyball

The standing floater serve is the most popular of all overhand serves and it requires

a consistent toss with your non dominant hand
a quick rotation of the hips followed by the upper body
as a flat-handed wide-fingered very stiff wrist contact on the ball is made with your dominant hand which should be shaped like a ping pong paddle
the top half of the palm of your hand should make contact with the middle panels of the ball while
keeping your elbow above the level of your ear.

The two important ways to make a float serve float in volleyball is

Once you toss the ball in the air your eyes should be focused only on where your hand contacts the ball.

Friday night boot campers practice their overhand serving arm motion at Friday Night Boot Camp class.

Four Types of Overhand Volleyball Serves
The Top Spin Serve

The Topspin Volleyball Serve

The standing topspin serve requires a high toss, a high reach and quick armswing of the dominant arm with the hand contacting the top third of the ball, very similar to the spike contact.

Contacting the top third of the ball creates the forward motion which launches the ball with alot of spin, pace and speed from your service line to the opposing court.

This high paced fast traveling serve is used to make it extremely difficult for the passers to receive the serve and get it to the target.

Four Types of Volleyball Serves
The Jump Serve

Overhand Volleyball Serves - The jump serve has two versions - the jump float and jump topspin serve - that're most commonly used on varsity teams.

Types of Volleyball Serves What's A Float, Jump Float, Spin, Jump Spin - The jump serve has two versions - the jump float and jump topspin serve - that're most commonly used on varsity teams.

The Overhand Jump Serve

The jump serve has two versions of the overhand serve, the jump float and jump topspin serve.

The jump float and the jump spin serves can be described essentially as spike attacks taken from behind the service line into the opposing team's court.

Types of Volleyball Serves What's A Float, Jump Float, Spin, Jump Spin:
How To Overhand Jump Serve

Basically before serving you

Back up 4 - 5 feet behind the service line and once the referee blows the whistle
you toss the ball up 8-10 feet in the air and once it reaches its highest height
you take a three-step spike approach before
contacting the top third of the ball above your head with open hand and strong fingers that guide the ball to your target

Right handed players will place the ball in their left hand so they can toss it in the air, then step towards it. (Ralph Aversen)

Types of Volleyball Serves What's A Float, Jump Float, Spin, Jump Spin: Right handed players will place the ball in their left hand so they can toss it in the air, then step towards it. (Ralph Aversen)

Right handed players will place the ball in their left hand so they can toss it in the air, then step towards it, as they then contact the ball with an

overhand
underhand
sidearm
jump serve swing action.

The ball is contacted with your dominant hand or any part of your arm with the intent of creating enough force to send the ball over the net and inside the opposing team's court.

Left handers do the opposite.

How you contact the ball overhand, to send it over the net, depends on the type of volleyball serve you decide to use.

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Types of Volleyball Serves What's A Float, Jump Float, Spin, Jump Spin
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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

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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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