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Volleyball Serving Strategies
How important is volleyball serving? I'm sure you've heard the volleyball saying, "it all starts with the pass". Well, I guess that's true, or is it? For many players, volleyball is an emotional rollercoaster ranging from confidence to frustration. These emotions that players experience from play to play have a big impact on momentum. Like most sports, winning in volleyball has a great deal to do with momentum. For example, a player continually builds confidence by making perfect passes. By consistently executing skills, players expect to make great plays. On the flip side, a player can shank passes over and over again and develop the mind set they can't pass. Same situation with a hitter that continually puts the ball away or repeatedly gets blocked. In my opinion, the easiest way to knock a team out of rhythm and keep the momentum of the game going your way is with tough serving. 
By volleyball serving tough you can make it much more difficult for your opponent to run their volleyball offense. Tough serves can create free ball situations that allow your team to build confidence passing and executing offensive plays. A team that serves really well can frustrate even the best teams. Types of Volleyball ServingFloaters Float serves are tough to pass because the ball dances in the air making it tough to judge where exactly the ball is going. This floating volleyball movement can also make it difficult for the server to keep the ball in the court.Top spin A top spin can be tough to pass because the ball will drop much faster than a float serve. Top spin serves are especially effective in the women's game. In girls high school and club volleyball, most players don't serve with top spin. With fewer players serving with top spin, there will be fewer passers comfortable passing it because they hardly ever see it. The top spin serve can be a very effective weapon because it's much easier to learn and execute than the floater. Volleyball Serving, Giving Your Team the AdvantageIs Serving Zones Really the Best Strategy? Typically, the court is divided up in to zones, 1 through 6. 
Zone 1 is Right Back, zone 2 is Right Front, zone 3 is Middle Front, zone 4 is Left Front, zone 5 is Left Back, and zone 6 is Middle Back. When first learning how to play volleyball, it's good to have your players practice serving accuracy by trying to serve zones. However, for more advanced volleyball players, I don’t like the term “court zones” when talking about where to serve. Players need to learn to serve making passers move, disrupting the opponent's offense. This should be done not by serving zones, but by making players move the way you want them to. Instead of just hoping your opposition has a hard time passing by serving "court zones", serve to dictate how a passer plays the ball. Two volleyball serving strategies... Ignore where players are standing on the court and serve certain areas, not zones. If all you ever do is decide where to serve depending on how your opponent is lined up in serve receive, you often play right into their hands. Develop tough volleyball serving skills for hitting common areas of the court that are tough to pass (deep corners and short). Analyze how your opponent lines up in serve receive. Much like a quarterback in football reads the defense when calling plays, a volleyball server can read the opponent's serve receive. No one knows your abilities to serve better than you do. Factor together what you know you can do, how you feel in that moment, with your opponent's vulnerabilities. Things to look for...
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