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?

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

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

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

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

A reader wants to know how to address players contacting serves and attacks in the mid-line rather than in line with their shoulder.

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.

When it comes to a pre-serve process keep in mind that both servers and passers should have them and that in both cases they should be simple.

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