How To Serve In Volleyball For Points
Learn more about the volleyball serve
After learning how to serve in volleyball the next goal is to learn how to
use your serve to score a point or how to put the opposing team in
difficulty so they can't run their offense to score a point.
Your goal should be to try and score a direct point from behind your
service line.
If you can't do that then you should try and make it difficult for the
opposing team to set up their offense by making an easy first contact of
The ability to score a point with your serve is called an "ace"
Scroll down to read more about what an ace serve is.
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- What's an "ace" serve?
- What are the basic rules dictating how a point can be scored from the service line?
If you score the coveted "ace" that means that at the beginning of a
rally, you used the serve in such a way that the ball once it entered the
other team's court, gave an opposing team member's so much difficulty
in making a first contact, they mishandled the ball which resulted in a
In simple terms, the opposing team was unable to pass the ball, either it
hit the floor directly or a player mishandled the ball in such a way that a
second contact couldn't be made.
If the ball doesn't come back to your side or if it hit the floor on the
opposing team's court without any player touching it, then you scored
an ace, which is a direct point for your team.
This is the easiest way an individual player can score a point by
themselves.
By learning how to serve in volleyball, in a way that's so hard to pass
the other team is unable to run their offense nor get the ball back over to
continue the rally.
Many teams rely on developing strong servers in order to score points
from the service line.
How To Serve in Volleyball For Points: The Let Serve
What's a "let" serve?
Originally the old rules were that when a server served the ball which
nicked or touched the top of the net, this would be considered a fault
and would be enough for the referee to blow their whistle and award the
opposing team the sideout and the chance to serve.
Basic volleyball rules have since been change and now state that if the
served ball on its way to an opposing team's court, touches the top of
the net and yet manages to fall into the opposing team's court that ball is
Play continues until that ball drops to the opposing team's floor.
How To Serve in Volleyball: Violations
Once the server has completed their serve, the serve must
- not contact any of the server's teammates before passing into the opponents court
- must completely travel between the two antenna's before landing into the opponents court
- not land in the net
- land out of bounds
- pass over players who are creating a screen as blockers making it difficult or impossible for the opposing team's passers to see the travel path of the ball
All of the above will result in the referee blowing their whistle and
awarding the ball to the opposing team, giving them to a chance to
serve and possibly score a direct point.
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