How To Spike in Volleyball 7 Attacking Techniques To Improve Your Hits

How To Spike in Volleyball. The left side spiker is one of the team's main offensive weapons who uses these 7 attacking techniques in volleyball to score.  


If you're an outside hitter also known as a left side spiker in volleyball on your team here are seven ways you can improve your point scoring  abilities which will help you score points with different kinds of sets and in several different situations while helping your team dominate opponents at the net.



I'm reprinting here on my site, the article I wrote for Active.com. 

If you're one of your team's outside hitters here are seven simple ways a spiker in volleyball can improve their spiking technique, help you score points with different kinds of sets and in several different situations while helping your team dominate opponents.


How To Spike in Volleyball To Score Points 
Practice "wiping the block" with a coach 


Practice "wiping the block" with a coach. 



The coach stands on a table or chair with a flat wooden board a couple inches above the volleyball net.

You purposefully practice hitting that board, aiming for the board like you are going to hit down the line.


How To Spike in Volleyball To Score Points    Aim straight ahead with your spiking arm


..."follow through, finishing with your spiking arm coming down across your body.

The ball comes back over your outside shoulder to the outside of the volleyball court.


How To Spike in Volleyball:
Practice "wiping the block" at home


...at home with a ball against your garage.

Without jumping, practice your arm swing hitting the ball into a square you've marked off in chalk to a spot about three to four feet above your forehead.


How To Spike in Volleyball:
Aim and hit standing four feet away from the spot


Your goal is for the ball to bounce back to the left side outside of your body.

It goes to the right side if you are left handed.


How To Spike in Volleyball:
Mix up your shots...


...especially in long rallies.

This keeps the block guessing and off balanced about what you are going to do and how you are going to attack next.


How To Spike in Volleyball:
Watch where the opposing team sets up in defense 


... when you are in the back row on defense.

Plan and think ahead so you already know where the open spots are on the opposing team's court when you get to the front row.


How To Spike in Volleyball:
Learn to "own" the middle


...of the opposing team's court.

Make this the place where you practice putting hundreds of roll shots and off speed shots in practice.



How To Spike in Volleyball Techniques:
Where You Should Go From Here


Got it? Good! Where do you need to go now? Here are three options: 

  1. Learn more about Hitters and Spiking by exploring 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 Volleyball Positions section in the drop down menu at the top of the page
  4. Reintroduce yourself to Mr. TT. MUGB, #7 , the left side outside hitter and for the All Beast VolleyBragSwag All Star Team. 

Meet T.T. Mugb, aka "Things That Make U Go Boom"
Lion and Ouside Hitter 
on 
VolleyBragSwag's All Beast Team

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Volleyball Hitter Tips Just For you!

Adopt a fearless attitude about hitting. Great hitters have confidence in their ability to hit against any block.
Exploit the holes in the block. Look for holes between the middle blocker and the outside blocker in front of you. Aim your spike fearlessly right for that “seam.”
Exploit the holes in the block. Look for holes between the middle blocker and the outside blocker in front of you. Aim your spike fearlessly right for that “seam.”
Exploit the holes in the block. Look for holes between the middle blocker and the outside blocker in front of you. Aim your spike fearlessly right for that “seam.”
Ask your back row players, between plays, to tell you whether the middle blocker is late closing the block. They are perfectly positioned to help you see what is going on in the front row.
Use your back row players to help when you are in the front row. Ask them to tell what they see is open and what the other team is or is not doing.
Hit the ball hard so it comes back off her arm and outside the sideline. Hitting like this keeps the defense from covering the ball, makes points, creates sideouts, keeps you in the game,