Short Volleyball Player Spikes How To Vary Your Attack Hits To Score Points Against Big Blockers
These three short volleyball player spikes offer different attack hit strategy options like deep tips, cut shots and roll shots to score against big blockers.
Vary Your Volleyball Ball Attack To Score Points Against Big Blockers With These 3 Types of Short Volleyball Player Spikes (Ralph Aversen)
This strategy is perfect for smaller athletes looking for short volleyball player spikes options.
In order to score a point, you don't always have to hit the ball hard.
There are other types of volleyball ball attack hits you should know how to do that still require a spike approach but do not require you to make a fast and quick armswing to drive the ball with force into the opposing court.
Short Volleyball Player Spikes
How to Roll Shot the Ball So It Falls Behind The Block
The Roll shot - is done after a spike approach and with the heel of your hand of your hitting arm which contacts the bottom of the front half of a volleyball while moving your shoulder in an upward motion which gives the ball a forward rolling motion.
This lifts the ball up and over the block and the rolling motion helps the ball fall quickly to the ground.
The roll shot is usually the third volleyball hit and is used to send the ball over the net in a rally.
Favorite places for hitters to tip the ball usually are
Short Volleyball Player Spikes
Sharp Cross Court - The Cut Shot
The Cut shot - is a ball hit at a sharp angle into the opposing court by a spiker.
For example if a hitter in Zone 4 hits a ball to Zone 2 in the opposing team's court, that's a cut shot in indoor volleyball.
Short Volleyball Player Spikes How To Use Your Fingertips To Tip The Ball Deep in the Court
The Tip - is done after a spiker makes their three or four step approach to the ball as if to hit it hard, but with the hitting arm slows down their armswing and
- contacts the ball with the soft pads of their fingertips
- to push the ball over the block and
- into an open space on the court.
Favorite places for hitters to tip the ball usually are
- behind the block and/or
- to the middle of the court
- deep to the corners of the court
where its harder for diggers to get to the ball.
Volleyball Ball Contact Strategy:
Where Do You Go From Here?
Where do you need to go now? Here are three options:
- Learn more about Smart Strategies by checking the links in Related Links section.
- Follow the suggested reading on our Sitemap page Learning How To Play (Sitemap)
- Or visit the pages in the How To Play Volleyball section in the drop down menu at the top of the page.
You might like these pages on changing volleyball ball contact hitting strategy.
The "sprawl" and the "extension" are two advanced dig and dive volleyball skills where you take one step while lowering your body to the floor before digging.
Learn the 8 technical aspects of how to dig in volleyball in the backcourt while your high school varsity volleyball team is on defense so you can dig hitters.
How to dive in volleyball. The dive doesn't help you get a ball up but it helps you protect your body and land safely on the ground AFTER you defend a ball
What is dig in volleyball and how do you learn to dig well behind your block so you can see which balls you need to defend and keep off the floor in a rally.
Defensive Volleyball Strategies: The dig is the last line of defense for a team to keep an attacked ball from hitting the floor and scoring a point or sideout.
What is a volleyball dig? Its the way to keep the ball off the floor on defense when the opposing team hits a hard driven or softly contacted attacked hit
The volleyball jump serve used on high school varsity volleyball teams is either a jump float or a jump topspin done with a spike approach before the swing.
A consistent toss is an important part of your floater in volleyball serving technique and if it isn't consistent it can make or break your serving success.
-
Improve Your Volleyball Performance with Private Volleyball Coach April Chapple
›
-
Six High School Varsity Volleyball Skills That Top Prep Players Crush
›
-
Short Volleyball Player Spikes To Use To Score Against Big Blockers
›
New! Comments
Have your say about what you just read! Leave me a comment in the box below.