i need help with setting and over-hand serving???(volleyball)?
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In a semi-squating position,  rest your elbows on across your thighs, just above your knees. While in this sitting position, bounce the volleyball downwards using both hands in a setting motion. This will isolate your wrists and allow you to feel the correct setting motion. It also works on getting a "feel" of the ball nestled in your hands.\n\nStand about 3 feet away from a wall and set into the wall. Catch the ball if you need, but eventually work up to setting the ball. This helps to get a lot of repititions setting the ball.\n\nOn a basketball court, practice setting into the basket from different angles and locations on the court. This helps with accuracy.\n\nPractice your overhand serving while standing inside the 3 meter line, facing the net. This well help to get your hitting arm at full extension when making contact. It also helps to get you to swing upward, instead of just whacking the ball.
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For serving, you all you force to punch it over the net. make sure you form a proper fist. If not, I would'nt be surprise if your wrist or fist are getting pain. \n\nFor bumping, only bump it if the ball is low. If it's high, volley it. Oh and make sure your hands are in good position and form or your fingers will be sore (especially thumbs). Volleying the ball would mean push it up to give it more height. Not down or you just gave the other team one point.\n\nAnd keep on practicing.
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As a coach I teach my kids to:\n1. grip the ball across all four laces.  \n2. Plant your throwing foot, step towards your target with your glove hand.\n3. Reach back with your throwing hand(stretching your arm all the way out) Keep your throwing elbow up\n4. Pull your body through with your glove hand, throwing the ball with your arm in an overhand motion(try not to drop down sidearm)\n5. Follow through, snapping your wrist at the end to give the ball a bit of backspin so that it will stay in the air a bit longer.\n\nRelease point will have to be adjusted according to who you are playing with(their height) \n\nPractice, practice, practice and have fun!...use a tennis ball(or a spongey baseball) and a brick wall.\n\nGood Luck!!
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thats one option. Another is to perfect your overhand and learn variations of the overhand. Learning how to get your overhand to "float" can offer variety as a digger has to change their approach to control on the return. \n\nYou could also work on perfecting your placement of you overhand. Knowing how much strength to put in your serve to place the ball in the different positions is great especially if there is a noticed weaker player on the opposing team. A great way to practice placement is to set up 6 Hula-hoops, one in each position, and try to serve the ball into the middle of the hoop.
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Yes i have many ok when you first start out serving with your let foot and then when you hit bring your right foot up a step and hit the ball and when you jump jump from the tip of your toe and the best way to get mote power on the ball is take your two hands and dont catch it but slightly get a hold on it then use all your upper strenght and hat ball will go so high so good luck with theese technics
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well if you serve underhand, you should try curls. for an overhand or power serve you just have to do it alot. that will help you build the strength. to keep the ball out of the net try hitting the ball sooner. when its higher (for over hand) same for underhand too. its really depends on your release point. and if you serve with a closed fist make sure you make a totally flat contact with the ball. if you dont and you hit it with the side of edge of your fist it will go out of bounds. Good Luck!! keep practicing! :)
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Ian, spend a lot of time practice serving leading up to matches. If you spend an hour a day practicing your serve against targets you'll notice an improvement in your confidence and accuracy. \n\nConfidence is really a key to a good serve, be it a first or a second serve. Like I said earlier, spend enough time practicing to gain the results that you need to give yourself that confidence when it comes time to serve your second serve.\n\nThat said, Pete Sampras once commented that he put more physical effort into his second serve than his first. You may be wondering how that could be possible, but it's actually quite simple. A big flat serve is all technique, however a CONSISTENT second serve is both the technique and the physical effort. If you're not exploding into your second serve, then you're not going to give it the topspin that it needs to fall back into the court like it should (if you serve a kick second serve...but the principle is still the same if you slice it). Perhaps you don't know how to serve a kick serve. If that is the case (and because it's such a good high-percentage serve--not to mention a serve that is hard to return well), then you should talk to your coach about showing you how to do it.\n\nAnother option is that you get nervous because it's a big match. It happens to everyone. You find yourself serving in front of a bunch of other people and you start thinking, "Ian, don't mess this up..." and of course, you promptly frame the ball into a court three courts down from you. This all comes back to the idea of lots of practice. If you've spent the past month practicing your serve, when you get to this point in the match and you feel your nerves, then you can respond, "Hell yeah! This is what I've been practicing for, baby! Can you say 'second serve ace'?"\n\nTo sum things back up, you don't serve correctly with enough speed in big matches because you don't have confidence in your serve. Practice is really the name of the game, but calling on a coach's expertise isn't a bad idea either. In any case, it's normal to be nervous in a big match, but it's something you can get over.\n\nI hope this helps.
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I would say that if you are still learning your overhand serve, then you will want to perfect that before trying to hit the "line drive" serve. Being a good server doesnt mean hitting it hard to your opponent, but being able to serve to your opponents weakest spot. Study your opponent when your team serves, find their weak link, and exploit it by hitting that mark when you serve.  Once you have perfected that the "line drive" serve will be easy.  Its a matter of force, once you know how to control the amount of force you have on the ball you will just be able to do it, and the practice from your basic overhand serve will help you control it.
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You can watch or go to a tennis competition and observe how the advance level players serve and just imitate and practice it. Try the underhand serve it will go over the net, but you got to adjust your strength (power) , so the ball wont go flying out of the court or lines.\nCheck out the link below, the videos on there teaches you the correct way to serve a tennis ball!!!
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i answered a similar question on another post, i'll just copy and paste here.. =P\n\n1) don't use ur fist to overhand serve. that might seem easier to give the power but that's not good cuz u can't control ur serve.\n\n2) a good friend of mine who plays very well always says to keep ur fingers close when serving. that gives a good floater if done correctly. but for me, i like it w/ my hand wide open. if u get used to and good at it, u can also serve floaters w/ hand wide opened. so that i guess it's up to u, whichever u feel more comfortable with.\n\n3) toss the ball in front of u, not rite above ur head or behind. tossing is very important actually. no need to toss too high. grab the ball w/ ur serving hand and extend up, just slightly in front of u, but parallel to ur serving shoulder, that should be that point where u hit the ball.\n\n4) do not bend ur elbow. at the point where u contact with the ball, ur arm should be straight, reaching for it. (pretty much the highest point of ur swing) u r not hitting it rite by ur ears.\n\n5) follow thru ur arm swing. some ppl stop rite after hitting the ball w/o following thru. that might work, but follow thru will give more power.\n\n6) snap ur wrist. that doesn't mean to hit the ball down. ur wrist should be snapping down along w/ ur follow thru, that will give the ball a nice projectile. some ppl snap it hard enough to give a lot of spin on the ball. but please, don't break ur wrist!\n\nif u r male, u should hav enough arm strength the serve the ball over, so what u need to concentrate on is how ur palm contact the ball. also depend on ur height. if u r really tall, u don't wanna hit too bottom of the ball to give a high serve. (unless u mean to do it.) if u r shorter, then hit it more bottom. i'm guess between the horizon line to it's 45 degree down is good. (bottom doesn't mean right under.)\n\nlook at where u r serving to, imagine the line of how u want ur ball goes. then look at where ur hand is when making contact to the ball.\n\nthat works for female too, but a lot of female when they start overhand serve, they don't hav enough strength. one of the things they r missing is, using their body to help. this is how i started learning overhand serve in junior high (i served sideway and round house b4 that): 1st, say if u serve w/ ur right hand, the ready position will be, ur right leg in the back, left leg front, put the weight on ur right leg. as u toss and hit the ball, u r also changing ur weight from ur right leg to ur left, so u r like walking forward. u r actually throwing ur right side body to the front, ur right hand is only use to hit the ball, where the power is actually coming from ur body.\n\nHIT the ball, not pushing it.\n\nlastly, of cuz, a lot of practise! =P\n\noh yeah, as u r serving, think of it: "SMACK IT LIKE IT JUST SMACKED U!!"\n\nthat was what work for me, even thou it might not be "correct".  if u can't change certain habits u hav, instead of forcing urself to change, be good with what u've got then.\n\nu said vball season is over, do u mean beach vball, or skool season?  cuz indoor vball just started its spring season.  =)\n\nhappy vballing  ^ ^=
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Don't get too hung up on your hieght.  Velleyball is a sport where height can be an advantage, but it is not the only determinate.  I recently had a team where my two setters where 5'9" and 5'1" and I had equal confidence in both of them.  In most cases I prefer my setters to be short, quick and athletic.\n\nAs a setter you have to keep in mind that you have two main jobs\n1. Get to that second ball almost every time\n2. Put up a hittable ball for your hitters\n\nIt sounds like you do not have confidence in the mechanics of your sets.  Before you worry about timing with your hitters, setting 1's, 2's extra, make sure you have good mechanics.\n\n1. practice your footwork - sets should come off of the right foot after a hopping motion\n2. make sure you are receiving the ball correctly.  I used to take a deflated ball (that way it does not bounce) and set to myself.  I would come to a full stop each time the ball hit my hands to make sure I was getting all 10 fingers on it at the same time.\n3. Touches - get as many as you can.  Set to yourself.  Play Breakout on a wall (It is a video gaem from when I was a kid) you try to hit the same brick in a wall over and over.\n4. See if there are any Setter Specific Camps in your area.\n\nAfter you improve your mechanics, get together with a hitter.  Have them give you feedback after each set.  If you are on a team, have all of your hitters give you one word feedback after each set e.g., higher, quicker, in, out etc.  develop your own system, but do not let the feedback get you down.  I tell my setters it is one of the hardest positions in sports (not just volleyball) and it takes a lot of mental toughness to be successful.\n\nGood luck
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Key to a good serve is consistency and accuracy. The main thing to concentrate on is timing, and serving action: should through the ball approximately 1 racket distance in from the baseline and hit it just as its dropping from the highest part of your toss.\nOnce you have mastered the technique, timing and accuracy, you can build on it by adding power - its important to not try hit it "too hard".\nLastly, another important thing is to develop and effect second serve - one you can depend on. This is normally a slice/topspin serve or a reduced speed/power version of the 1st serve.
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i am joining volleyball too! so good luck go to the website i gave you and click on whatever type of rules your looking for it has indoor and outdoor rules on there good luck hope you make it!!!!!
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http://www.fivb.ch/EN/Volleyball/Rules/FIVB.2005.VB.RulesOfTheGame-new.pdf\n\nGo to page 108. Those are the referee ruling hand signals; however, coach and setter hand signals determining the serve or attack can vary.
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I had to do this before this should help.\n\nhttp://www.sportsknowhow.com/volleyball/history/volleyball-history.shtml
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ZZTOPSPIN, if you want to serve like a profesional, then you should find yourself a coach because it's really the best way to do it. But with that in mind, I'll try to help you the best that I can.\n\nAs a tennis instructor, we teach the serve in steps. The first things we work on are the toss and the contact. Stand with your feet shoulder-width apart (and with your non-dominant foot forward) and place your racket on the ground with the strings about six inches from your front-most foot. Toss the ball so that it goes up about a foot and a half from your outstretched hand and lands on the racquet. Keep doing this until you can hit your racquet consistently. You may be thinking, "This is so stupid!" But how often do you see professional players toss the ball, and then have to take steps sideways to get themselves in position to hit their poorly performed toss? NEVER! And how many times do you see recreational players do it? ALWAYS! And so, I repeat, the toss is a key to a professional's serve.\n\nAlso, when you toss the ball, hold the ball with the tips of your fingers. This is because you want to release your toss such that the ball DOES NOT spin in the air. If you hold the ball in your palm, the ball will end up rolling up fingers, will spin in the air, and will respond differently every time. We want consistency here.\n\nNow that you've got your toss down consistently, you're going to want to work on your contact. Before we do that, we want to address your grip. Changing your grip is a good way to change the kind of spin that you put on the ball, but it usually isn't the way that pros do it. Spin comes later. Don't worry about that now. Hold your racquet with the "V" of your thumb and pointer finger on the middle bevel found by following the side edge of your racqued down to your grip. Start with your racquet in "back scratch position", or with the side of your racquet touching the middle of your back. Toss the ball, and extend up to contact and swing through the ball. Keep doing this until you gain comfort with the motion and consistent placement.\n\nCongratulations, you've made it past the first step. There are dozens of different drills that you could do to work on these different aspects of the first step. I've only mentioned two. You should really contact an instructor to help you if you struggle making it through this first step.\n\nStep Two: Now you're going to add the loopy motion that is typical of professional serves. This motion ends up being different for everyone. Pete Sampras, as was mentioned earlier, has a serve that is considered the perfect serve. Theoretically, it maximized momentum and power, however, Andy Roddick badly violates many of the principles of the Sampras serve and still manages to hit his serve harder than anyone ever before. And so, I can't tell you that there is ONE way to do things. All that I can suggest is that you start with your weight on your front foot, and that you transfer that weight to your back foot as you move through to your backscratch position. That way, you can spring out of backscratch and into the ball.\n\nFor you, do whatever you have to do to go from the resting position, to the back scratch position. Some players serve from a pinpoint stance (meaning their feet move together before springing into their serve) while others maintain the shoulder width distance. This is all up to you. The key is to explode up to the ball from the backscratch position. You already mentioned making contact at the highest point, you also want to try to "hit up" on the ball. You may think that you're going to send the ball into the next time zone, but if you tossed the ball at the correct height and make contact at the apex, "hitting up" on the ball will give you the explosion that you need to really power through the ball.\n\nAnother thing, is that you're going to want your serve to lead you i
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It depends on what the coach wants.  I would make a chart with each skill on it.  Serve, pass, set, hit, block, etc.  Then on the other side of the chart have spaces for each player, then when I player does something in the game, you just have to put a mark in the box.  You can use use o, for a bad thing, like a missed serve, or a + for a good thing like an ace.  Then if they just get a serve in put a 1.  The coach should be able to give you some ideas.  He or she will know what they want out of the stats and that will help you know how to take them.