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How To Receive Volleyball Serve Tips To Learn How To Fix Your Pass

This coach's playbook helps new coaches learn to teach how to receive volleyball serve to elevate their team's serve receive skills with tips and drills.

New volleyball coach? This guide has you covered! Learn the fundamentals of how to receive volleyball serve with techniques, drill and tips to help get ready to transform your team's performance

As a new volleyball coach, you understand the importance of building a strong foundation for your team's success.

One of the most critical skills to master is serve reception, often referred to as "passing."

This first contact with the ball sets the stage for your entire offensive strategy, making it a crucial element of the game.

In my comprehensive guide, we'll explore the essential techniques, drills, and strategies to help you elevate your team's serve receive game.

The Fundamentals of Serve Reception

Proper serve reception technique is the backbone of a successful volleyball program.

Let's start by breaking down the key elements:

1. Ready Position

Feet shoulder-width apart, knees bent, weight on the balls of the feet. This balanced, athletic stance allows players to react quickly to the serve.

Press both wrists together when passing, without breaking them apart no matter how hard or easy the serve.

2. Passing Platform Formation

Arms extended, hands clasped, creating a flat surface to contact the ball. A solid platform ensures a clean, controlled pass.

3. Movement to the Ball

Quick, short steps to get behind the ball before contact. Efficient footwork is crucial for accurate passes.

4. Eye on the Ball

Keeping eyes focused on the ball from the server's hand until contact is made. This visual focus is essential for making adjustments and reading the serve.

Mastering these fundamentals lays the groundwork for more advanced serve receive skills.

I like to work on this 3 person "Dodgeball" drill where the person in the middle has to choose which side to get their midsection out of the way of the oncoming ball that's being tossed at their chest before they present their passing platform with an angled shoulder positioned towards the target.

Progressing from Basics to Game-Like Scenarios

When teaching serve reception, it's important to take a progressive approach.

Start with isolated drills to build muscle memory, then gradually increase the complexity to simulate game situations.

1. Stationary Passing Drills

Focus on proper platform formation and ball control through partner passing, wall drills, and self-toss exercises.

2. Dynamic Movement Drills

Incorporate shuffling, jogging, and jumping to develop footwork and reaction time.

3. Serve Simulation Drills

Have players receive serves from a coach or teammate, gradually increasing serve speed and placement.

Like in most beginner volleyball drills, one player will "guide" the drill while the other player "works" the drill.

4. Game-Like Situations

Create pressure-filled scenarios by adding defenders, varying serve types, and incorporating transitions to the next skill.

By building up from the basics, your players will develop the confidence and decision-making abilities needed to excel in match play.

Effective Communication Strategies

Clear communication is essential for a serve receive group of passers.

Encourage your players to:

1. Call the Ball

Establish a system where players clearly communicate who will take the serve.

2. Provide Feedback

After each rep, have players offer constructive feedback to their teammates.

3. Encourage Positive Reinforcement

Foster a supportive environment where players celebrate each other's successes.

Modeling this communication during practice will help your players transfer these skills to the court.

Troubleshooting Common Issues

Build up players' self-belief through positive feedback and incremental goal-setting.

As your players work to improve their serve reception, you may encounter some common challenges.

Be prepared to address these:

1. Inconsistent Platform

Remind players to maintain a stable, flat platform throughout the contact.

2. Footwork Struggles

Emphasize the importance of quick, efficient movement to get in position.

3. Eyes On the Ball

Stress the need to keep visual focus on the ball from start to finish.

4. Lack of Confidence

Build up players' self-belief through positive feedback and incremental goal-setting.

By identifying and addressing these issues early on, you'll help your players develop more reliable and confident passing skills.

Integrating Serve Receive into Full-Game Scenarios

Once your players have a solid grasp of the fundamentals, it's time to mix in serve receive into more comprehensive training.

This will help them understand how this skill fits into the overall team strategy.

1. Transition Drills

Incorporate passing into sequences that flow into setting, hitting, and defense.

2. Competitive Situations

Create game-like scenarios with scoring, time constraints, and pressure to simulate match conditions.

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3. Tactical Discussions

Analyze how effective serve reception can impact your team's offensive and defensive approaches.

Measuring Progress and Setting Goals

Establishing clear metrics for success is crucial for tracking your players' development.

Consider the following:

1. Passing Percentage

Monitor the ratio of successful to unsuccessful passes during drills and matches.

2. Consistency

Observe how often players are able to execute proper technique, regardless of serve placement.

3. Decision-Making

Evaluate players' ability to adjust their positioning and platform based on the serve.

Use these measurements to set achievable, incremental goals for your team, celebrating milestones along the way.

Elevating Your Team's Serve Receive Game

Mastering the volleyball serve receive is a journey, but with the right techniques, drills, and strategies, you can transform your team's performance.

Remember to start with the fundamentals, progress gradually, and foster a supportive, communicative environment.

By empowering your players to become confident, skilled passers, you'll unlock your team's full offensive potential and set them up for long-term success on the court.

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Many of these volleyball practice drills you can do at home by yourself or try at your next practice with your teammates.

If you're a B team or JV player trying to make varsity next year...your goal should be to complete 1000 reps a day of at least three of the basic skills on your own...volleyball passing, serving and setting should be at the top of the list.

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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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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.

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