Volleyball Serve Drills For Beginners To Use To Weaponize Short Serves

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Volleyball Serve Drills For Beginners To use To Weaponize Short Serves

Short serves can really disrupt an opposing team's planned offensive plays which is why we do these types of volleyball serve drills for beginners

Want to know why short serves can really disrupt an opposing team's offense?

Because short serves are hard to pass because a player has to

quickly move forward towards the net which reduces the area they have to pass the ball
then they need to drop their hips while
adjusting the angle of their platform arms
using great passing technique to pass the ball

and keep it on their side of the net.

The forward movement has to be stopped early enough so that the momentum doesn't push the passed ball over the net where the setter can't set the second ball.

That's pretty tough to do if you don't regularly practice passing short serves.

Volleyball Serve Drills for Beginners:

Players serve balls To Zone 2 then shag their ball before going to the opposite side to serve to Zone 2 from the other side of the court.

Where is Zone 2?

Zone 2 is the right front area of the court that goes from the furthest right side corner of the court starting at the net and continuing back to about two feet behind the ten foot line.

The question is have you done enough short serve reps in practice to feel confident to rip a short serve…. at tie score in the fifth set?

In your volleyball serve drills for beginners ...did you serve 100 reps every day this week to make sure serving short is in your box of magic tricks?

Working On Short Volleyball Serve Drills Beginners - Serve, Jog and Chase Drill For A Timed Period

Or did you find a reason and excuse to distract you from taking the necessary.., sometimes boring steps… to get you closer to reaching your goals?

Check Out These Three Tactics and Strategies For The Short Serve When We Do Our Serving Volleyball Drills.

Look in the mirror and be honest..

How much work did you put in .. this week and last week … to improve your short service game? Did you get 100 reps in each day?

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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.

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Tennessee Hall of Fame inductee, Coach April Chapple is

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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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