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Play conservatively to win, redux

Sometimes the highest probability of match success comes from taking a more conservative approach to how you go at attacking the opposition.

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Serving Strategy: Attacking Zone 1

In terms of causing your opposition offensive problems, sometimes attacking Zone 1 can be an extremely useful serving strategy.

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To Call Service Targets, or Not to Call Targets

Many volleyball coaches give their servers specific targets to go after during matches, but I tend to avoid do that to encourage my players to do it themselves.

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The Evolving Jump Float Serve Approach

In recent years there's been a move toward a somewhat more conservative float serve approach in volleyball, speaking to an aggressiveness/accuracy tradeoff.

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Coaching Concept: Tennis serving

Taking a page out of the tennis book, you can use the idea of let serves to encourage more aggressive serving in volleyball training drills and games.

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When not to serve their weakest passer

In volleyball, serving the other team's weakest passer is usually the right strategy, but not always. A good volleyball coach will know when to change it up.

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