Beach Volleyball Serving Drills
With beach volleyball training comes many exercises and drills that you need to do to perfect your game. We have talked about how to spike a volleyball by doing plyometric workouts for volleyball that involve jump training and now we are going to go over some beach volleyball serving drills.
Serving is a very important part of the beach volleyball game. There are some players that try to serve the ball as hard as they can every time in hopes of getting an ace like Phil Dalhausser, Casey Patterson, Ty Loomis, Anthony Medel, Brad Keenan, Jeff Carlucci, Russ Marchewka and Austin Rester on the mens side. The best ace servers on the women’s side are April Ross, Ashley Ivy, Katie Lindquist, Elaine Youngs, Nicole Branagh, Brittany Hochevar and Dianne DeNecochea. If you notice, the best ranked teams in the AVP have 1 or 2 people that serve a lot of aces. So if you are planning on making it in the AVP, you need to learn how to serve aces.
Not all aces are super fast serves like Phil Dalhausser, some of them are just really well placed or they float. A good float serve is harder to pass than a hard serve because it can move up down or to the side before you make contact with the ball. A hard serve will have a lot of top spin and it will be dropping every time, the difficult thing with a fast serve is that you don’t have as much time to react to where the ball will be. You need to find where you excel and work on it. If you have a descent float serve, work on it more until becomes great.
Are you not sure how to make your serve float? In order for a ball “move” you need to serve it with no spin on the ball. This means that you do NOT snap your wrist when serving a floater, you want it to stay float over the net without spinning forward or backward. Doing some slight variations when you are practicing serves can make a huge difference. I found that my serve moves in a different way if I lean back when I serve. Try serving in a lot of different ways until you find a serve that is hard to pass and then perfect it by practicing it over and over again.
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