How To Serve In Volleyball Two Tips On How To Develop A Tough Serve

To develop a tough serve you need to decide early where to serve and then attack the ball with your serve in order to improve how to serve in volleyball. 

In order to learn how to serve for points, you need to develop two things

• tough serving skills 
• an aggressive mindset 

Why do you want to develop a tough serve?

Once you've learned the basics on serving then you want to take advantage of your serving opportunity because its the one skill in volleyball that you do alone - which you and only you... control...

This means

• you can make it easy 
• you can make it difficult

for the opposing squad to easily run a play and score points against your team 

The easier your serve is, the easier it is for the opposing team to run a point scoring play.

The tougher your serve is the harder it is to run a point scoring play against your team.

You don't want to make an easy serve because you don't want to make it easy for the other team to score against yours. 

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"Think about what you want to do with your serve and how you want to do it" (Coach ApChap)

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THINK, THINK, THINK

If you don't think about scoring a point when you serve, then you're less likely to do it.

But if you don't do it, then you are passing up a golden opportunity to help your team score an easy point.

Remember to THINK about making a tough serve, not an easy one. 

From now on when you rotate back to Zone one on your way back to serve, as you are walking back to the base line you should be mentally forming this serving strategy.

• "I'm going to place the opposing team in difficulty by making an aggressive serve"

• I'm going to serve this particular player....

• I'm going to serve to this particular court zone or position on the court

You should make up your mind that you are going to go back and serve an aggressive ball to a certain spot or to a certain player on the court.

When learning how to serve in volleyball you should picture yourself attacking the ball with your serve.

Think about it!

When you hit the ball, you are in an aggressive state of mind, right?

Well, just like you are in an aggressive state of mind when you spike a ball you want to recreate that same state of mind when you go back to serve a volleyball.

So when I say that you should be attacking with your overhand volleyball serve I am describing a mental process that you must adapt first----even before you prepare to physically do any serving.

Quick Review

To develop a tough serve you need

• to decide early where to serve and then think about attacking the ball with your serve
• then serve aggressively to a specific player or a court zone or position on the court.

in order to improve how to serve in volleyball. 

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I share alot of individual, partner and easy-to-do volleyball serving drills we do in class with my followers.

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. 

Your three options are: 

1. You can learn more about Serving by visiting the related links below.                            
2. Follow the suggested reading on our Sitemap page Learning How To Play (Sitemap)
3. Or visit the pages in the How to Play Volleyball section in the drop down menu at the top of the page to get started. 
4. Before leaving this page Say "Hi" to Miss Tattoo the Tiger wearing the #9 jersey below.  Miss Tattoo is the starting defensive and serving specialist for the All Beast VolleyBragSwag All Star team.

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