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Volleyball Pass Techniques: Watch The Ball Before It Crosses The Net

You can get better at your volleyball pass technique by tracking the ball earlier when its in the opposing server's hands then track it as it crosses the net.

Volleyball Pass Techniques: Watch The Ball Before It Crosses The Net: Tracking the ball early while its in the opposing server's hands is the key to better volleyball passing technique. (CE Andersen)

How can you get better at volleyball passing?

You can improve the quality of your volleyball pass technique immediately by watching the opposing server closely as soon as she has the ball in her hands ready to serve.

Tracking the ball early is the key to better volleyball passing skills

Improve Your Volleyball Pass Technique In Serve Receive
Watch The Ball When Its In the Server's Hands

First, while waiting for the server to complete their pre-serve routine you need to check out the server's body position to pick up any cues as to where she could be serving.

What should you be looking for?

Volleyball Pass Techniques: Watch The Ball Before It Crosses The Net: Penn State players Focusing On the Ball In Illinois Server's Hands ((Richard Yuan)

After you've checked out the server's body position and made your adjustments based on where it looks like the server is going to serve, then quickly share this information with your teammates.

What can you communicate to your passers?

"Hey watch the server, looks like she's going to serve short."
"Hey you guys, stay low and be ready to move backwards looks like she's serving deep."

It takes two seconds to say this very quickly to your other teammates before the opposing team serves.

Sharing any serving tendencies that the current server has shown is what to talk about at this point.

If the server has a jump serve then remind everyone "Hey watch the jump" or
If they have a float serve "Look out for the deep float serve down the line!"

If the server has only served cross court all match then talk about that. "Hey you guys watch her cross, watch her serving cross court!"

Passing the deep serve consistently requires teammates to talk to each other to let each other know who is going to move deep in the court to pass the deep serve.

Improve Your Volleyball Pass Technique
Talk About What The Server is Doing

Next, you maintain your focus on the opposing team's server while

you are saying this out loud to your teammate and
getting into the ideal position for you to forearm pass a ball based on what you've just called out.

Volleyball Pass Techniques: Keep visually tracking the ball, keeping your eyes on it as it crosses the net and as the ball travels closer and closer towards you.

After the referee has blown the whistle, your focus should be completely on the ball while its still in the server's tossing hand.

Check to see if you get distracted by taking your eyes off the ball between the time the server serves it and the time the ball crosses the net.

Once the server tosses the ball in the air for their pre-serve ritual there really isn't much they can change.

Passing is done when you hold both wrists together and with both thumbs side by side and pointing to the ground as you contact the ball on the forearms of both arms. (April Chapple)

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Volleyball Techniques:
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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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