Steps To Passing A Volleyball Learn How To Pass A Volleyball Correctly

Players use these steps to passing a volleyball to get the ball to a player or over the net holding their wrists together to form a platform with the forearms

Steps To Passing A Volleyball Learn How To Pass A Volleyball Correctly(Jaroslaw Popczyk)

What're the steps to passing a volleyball?

Passing in volleyball is the way to get the ball from one person to another or from one side of the net to the other side by using your forearms as a tool that creates a flat platform to make contact with the ball.

Passing occurs most often as the first of three contacts the team in serve receive uses to set up their attack against the defensive team.

Steps To Passing A Volleyball:
What is the correct way to pass a volleyball?

Volleyball Passing Technique: Keep hands and wrists pressed together with the fist of one hand inside the other hand while thumbs of both hands point down to the ground. (Matt van Winkle)

Steps To Passing A Volleyball: Keep hands and wrists pressed together with the fist of one hand inside the other hand while thumbs of both hands point down to the ground. (Matt van Winkle)

You

keep your hands and wrists pressed together with the fist of one hand inside the other hand while the thumbs of both hands point down to the ground.

Keeping the thumbs pointed to the ground when contacting the ball keeps your arms straight.

Your arms need to be kept straight in order to maintain a flat surface like the one you would see on a table top.

As we say in volleyball, this is your "platform."

Steps To Passing A Volleyball: Your arms need to be kept straight in order to maintain a flat surface like the one you would see on a table top.(Mark Shaiken)

You would then use your "platform" to make contact with the ball, while angling your arms and shoulders to your target.

This guides the ball to

your target
your setter or
to another hitter or
even across the net

depending on where you want the ball to go.

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Steps To Passing A Volleyball:
The "Ready" Position

USA Volleyball Tokyo 2020 Olympic hopeful Alix Klineman assumes the volleyball passing "ready position in volleyball" (Adidas)

Before the rally starts, a player will position her body in an athletic stance, which many coaches call the "ready position."

Feet, Knees, Legs

Feet are just outside the shoulders, with knees slightly bent in a loaded position so its easy to move right, left front or backwards to get to where the ball has been served.

Shoulders

Shoulders are over the knees and arms are held out in front of you.

Your shoulders and upper body should be leaning forward a bit and parallel and squared to the net while you face the server.

Arms

You don't want your arms too close to you nor do you want them too far away from you.

We tell our clients and boot campers that you should be able to fit a volleyball ball under your armpits.

That's the perfect distance that your arms should be held away from your body in your ready position.

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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To Review What
Volleyball Passing
Technique Is

Volleyball Passing Technique: When you're passing in volleyball, you are transferring the ball from one player to another or over the net (Mark Shaiken)

Volleyball Passing Technique: When you're passing in volleyball, you use your forearms to transfer the ball from one player to another or over the net (Mark Shaiken)

When you pass a volleyball, you are transferring the ball from one player to another or over the net

without letting the ball come to a complete stop,
while clasping both hands together at the wrists and
contacting the ball on your forearms

Whether you call it the volleyball bump, the serve receive, the underhand pass or the forearm pass every player needs to master the art of controlling the ball while consistently passing it to the intended target.

You do that by doing lots and lots of reps which we do and practice in our Boot Camp classes.

Steps To Passing A Volleyball:
Where Do You Go From Here?

Your three options are:

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