Get your servers competing with this game

I like incentivizing my servers to challenge my passers in practice. Here's a way you can get your servers competing.

Serving: Stand or Jump?

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

Creating service pressure in practice

How can we get players used to serving in pressure situations? It comes down to making their serves in practice consequential.

What is an aggressive serve?

When we coaches say aggressive serving, what exactly does that mean? Here is what I mean when I use that phrase.

Reader questions on passing and serving

A reader who is a volleyball player has a couple questions on how to help her teammates be better in serve reception and in serving

What is the optimal serve error rate?

Serving aggressiveness and its impact on point scoring is a frequent talking point among volleyball coaches. Is there an optimal service error rate?

How to teach the overhand serve to volleyball beginners

How do you teach volleyball beginners to serve? That is the question I was asked. Here is what I focus on when working with new servers.

Looking at Serving Risk and Reward

Lots of volleyball coaches want their teams to serve tougher, but there's a trade off between winning more rallies and losing more points through higher errors.

Why does my volleyball team miss serves?

If your volleyball misses serves at bad times or simply misses them a lot there are a number of potential causes which you can address to correct it.