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Tips On Volleyball Hitting Why Hitters Tip Deep, Cut Or Use Roll Shots

Use these tips on volleyball hitting to improve your offensive game by varying your attacks using different slow and fast ball contact hit options to beat different defense strategies you may face. 

Tips On Volleyball Hitting: Do reps of different volleyball ball contact hit options to prepare to score points against big blockers (Ralph Aversen)

As a front row attacker or hitter you need to be able to change your volleyball ball contact on the ball so you aren't always hitting the ball hard but you vary your volleyball ball contact by slowing up the ball so it drops right behind the block or to the middle of the court. 

Tips On Volleyball Hitting: Beach volleyball ball contact - use the cut shot to vary your attack and to score points when you face big blockers (Ralph Aversen)

Why should you change your volleyball ball contact when attacking the ball?

You should plan on diversifying your attack hits by adding "the tip" and these slower speed attack hits like

• the down ball and
• the cut shot

to your collection of hitting tactics.

You can be as confident as you want to be as a spiker on the court, but the best hitters are always prepared to have many different ways to score points offensively.

You want to be unpredictable as a hitter.

If your spike attacks are always hard hits, then that makes you very predictable.

Sooner or later the opposing team's block or the diggers in their backrow defense will

• understand and anticipate or
• read your attacking style because you've created a pattern of hitting which is consistent and easy to anticipate.

It will be easy for them to place themselves in the court to dig you or block you because you keep doing the same thing over and over again.  

Tips On Volleyball Hitting: Volleyball Hit Strategy: You want to be unpredictable as a hitter. And if your spike attacks are always hard hits, then that's very predictable. Try tipping!

Check out a few things that an opposing team would say if they knew you try to hit every ball hard all the time. 

•  "Yeah we know how she hits.
• She ALWAYS spikes the ball hard.
• That's the only thing she knows how to do. So let's set up our block here and our defense here.
• And if we can't stop her hard hit at the net with our block, we will pick it up in the back row with our defense."

Listen to what else they could also say...

• "Sure he/she hits the ball hard and we know that she will score some points for her team, but if she keeps hitting hard, all the time, for the entire first set, then we know she will get tired.."

• When he/she gets tired then she won't hit as hard and it will get easier to block her spikes at the net or it will get easier dig a ball she hits because it will have less power. 

Tips On Volleyball Hitting: Why Hitters Change Up Their Attack: Villanova powers a strong volleyball hit through the North Carolina seam in the block. (Charlie J)

And sooner or later... it will get harder and harder for you to score points against a team because they already know what type of spiker you are and they will set up their team defense accordingly.

Instead of always relying on the hard volleyball hit, practice and use one of the offspeed hitting options named above as one of your highly effective offensive attack hits.

Tips On Volleyball Hitting: Instead of always relying on the hard hit, use the tip as one of your highly effective offensive attack hits. (Ralph Aversen)

Learn to use this in practice during your volleyball hit drills and spike training.

This will keep the defense guessing as to how you are going to attack the ball next.

Work on all of your hitting strategy, like mixing up your shots during practice. 

You can improve your offensive game by spending your time wisely doing repetitions of different volleyball hit options that will prepare you for many of the different blocking or defense strategies the opposing team will use to try and stop you in a game.

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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.

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