Serving & Serve Receive (Start Here)
Serving and serve receive coaching: seam rules, scoring methods, and training games to build pressure-ready reps.
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Serving and serve receive coaching: seam rules, scoring methods, and training games to build pressure-ready reps.

Will improving players' serve % in practice help improve the team's serve reception? Maybe, but not in and of itself.

Here's a training sequence for beginning servers that for me has both conceptual and structural issues in its intent and design.

A volleyball coach wants to know how to get more mindful, intentional serving by players in practice. The answer is pretty easy.

This is a competitive serving and passing game variation shared by Giovanni Guidetti that is team vs. team rather than servers vs. passer.

This is a competitive serving and passing game shared by Giovanni Guidetti that is team vs. team rather than servers vs. passer.

Legendary coach Terry Pettit has shared some observations about the current state of the game to which I react.

Is the serve in volleyball an offensive tool or a defensive one? I share my thoughts on the subject in this post.

A reader asked me to speak to the subject of advanced serving zones in volleyball. Here's a bit on the subject.

Are jump serves better than standing serves in volleyball? If so, when should we start teaching players how to jump serve?