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Improve Your Forearm Pass in Volleyball With My Two Receiving Tips

Two forearm pass in volleyball tips you should learn that will help you get the ball to your setter while on serve receive.

Improve Your Forearm Pass in Volleyball with My Five Ball Control Tips (Jaroslaw Popczyk)

The forearm pass in volleyball describes how a player on the receiving team contacts the first ball served over the net by the serving team on defense.

To accurately pass a ball to the target is a key volleyball action needed to initiate your team's offense effectively.

Here are 5 "little" volleyball tips that will make a BIG difference in your passing performance.

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Improve how often, how accurately and how consistently you pass the ball to your setter by adopting these tips and techniques.

Passing is done when you hold both wrists together and with both thumbs side by side and pointing to the ground as you contact the ball on the forearms of both arms. (April Chapple)

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Keep A Straight Platform

To accurately pass a ball to the target is a key volleyball action needed to initiate your team's offense effectively. (Ralph Arvesen)

Good volleyball serve receive skills require a player to keep a straight platform by keeping thumbs pointed to the ground.

One of the biggest mistakes volleyball players make is bending their elbows to pass the ball.

Big 12 Kansas passer keeps thumbs pointed to the found to maintain a straight armed platform (Shakes KC)

If you review the photos of elite players both indoor volleyball and sand volleyball players when they serve receive you will notice that their forearm pass in volleyball "platforms" aka the inside of their forearms that they present... are so straight as a board you could use their arms as a flat table to eat on.

If you review the photos of elite players the inside of their forearms that they present... are so straight as a board you could use their arms as a flat table to eat on. (Jaroslaw Popczyk)

Keeping your thumbs pointed to the ground while holding them together when you make contact with the ball...is the key to keeping your arms straight when pass a volleyball.

Forearm Pass in Volleyball Tips
Keep your Eyes On The Ball From Server To Platform

To increase accuracy in your serve receive skills track the ball with your eyes while its in the server's hands. (Ralph Arvesen)

To increase accuracy in your serve receive skills track the ball with your eyes while its in the server's hands all the way into your platform arms.

There are alot of things to look at when the server has the ball just before the ref blows the whistle.

There are alot of things to look at when the server has the ball just before the ref blows the whistle. (Ralph Arvesen)

There can be alot of things to be distracted by if you don't learn to concentrate and narrow your focus.

What do you focus on?

From this point on your eyes and mind should see and focus on nothing but the ball ALL THE way INTO your arms. (Matt Pendleton)

Once the server takes the volleyball in their hands and positions themselves to indicate where and how they are going to serve and then they start bouncing the ball in anticipation of serving it...it's at this point most elite athletes I know focus 125% ONLY on the ball in the server's hands.

From this point on, your eyes and mind and self talk and concentration should see and focus on nothing but the ball ALL THE way as it travels towards you across the net and INTO your platform arms.

From this point on your eyes and mind should see and focus on nothing but the ball ALL THE way INTO your arms. (Neon Tommy)

Track the ball all the way into your arms keeping your head up but with eyes on the ball...so that you can see your straight platform.

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From Lady Vol to Legend: Coach April Honored At UTK Champions Weekend

Lady Vol volleyball legend and record holder Coach April Chapple a University of Tennessee, Knoxville Hall of Fame Inductee, 3-time All American, 3-time SEC Champion, SEC Tournament MVP, 2-time All SEC Team is celebrated with her 1984 SEC champion teammates at Neyland Stadium during Champions Weekend on November 1-2, 2024.

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Tennessee Hall of Fame inductee, Coach April Chapple is

the first First Round Draft Pick for the first American pro indoor women's league
named to the first First Team All-Pro team for Major League Volleyball in USA volleyball history
former USA National team member
one of the few American women players named as an Italian Pro League D-I Championship Finalist, Italian Cup Finalist and Cup of Cups Tournament Finalist

April Chapple The first First round Draft Pick For Major League Volleyball the first American Women's Pro League Honored At Athlete Unlimited Pro Volleyball Match

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Serving slang is not just about individual techniques; it also relates to overall game strategy. A coach might instruct a player to serve a "short serve" or a "deep serve" to target specific areas of the opponent's court or exploit weaknesses in their serve receive formation.

Ari, my private training client and I are working specifically on serving on jump float cross court serves ...short to Zone 2

There's so much we work on to get to this point where she can contact the ball with

the same toss height and same toss location
the same armswing speed
the same timing for when her serving hand contacts the ball
the middle of the hand contacting the middle of the ball every single time
getting use to watching her serving hand contact the ball at the highest point of her jump ...before she starts to land
and finally contacting the ball in the precise spot on the ball so it goes where the coach wants the player to put it so in this case ..a short serve in the farthest short right corner on the court also called Zone 2.

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Tommi Stockham All Big West Conference sophomore former Coach April Chapple private client 3 years

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Improve Your Passing Tips: Press both wrists together when passing no matter what...

Improve Your Passing Tips: Move your feet first to position yourself behind the ball.

Improve Your Passing Tips: Present your platform after you've stopped running.

Improve Your Passing Tips: Focus on the ball in the opposing server's hands not on the server's face. Its the ball you have to pass.

Improve Your Passing Tips: Keep your eyes on the ball. focus early on the ball before it comes to your side.

Improve Your Passing Tips: Anticipate where you need to be. Get there BEFORE you start to pass.

Improve Your Passing Tips: Keep your eyes on the ball. Visually track it from the server's hands to your passing platform.

Click to read Passing in Volleyball: Fundamental Skills For Receiving The Ball Better

Improve Your Passing Tips: Pass with both feet on the floor. Avoid the jump bump.

Improve Your Passing Tips: Work on speed and agility drills so you can move quickly to get to balls in serve receive.

Tennessee Athletics Honors April Chapple at Champions Weekend for Legendary Volleyball Achievements

From Lady Vol to Legend: Coach April Produces Powerful Passionate Players...is that you?

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Making A-1 Vegas Volleyball history as the very first TOURNAMENT CHAMPIONS! In the In It To Win It Tournament, May 2-4, 2025 Tournament, A-1 Vegas Volleyball Club Gold Medalists, 18s Premier Division