Types of Volleyball Serves Topspin, Missile, Coach Kill, Friendly Fire
Topspin, missile, coach kill, friendly fire and husband and wife play are serving terms used for advanced types of volleyball serves used by varsity players.
A 'Husband and Wife' serve is one of the types of volleyball serves used by beach players serving a ball that drops between the opposing two players causing them to fight. (Craig Maccubbin)
Learn more about the advanced types of volleyball serving techniques and skills like the topspin, missile, coach kill, friendly fire and
husband and wife play (Aaron Suarez)
Learn more about the advanced types of volleyball serving techniques and skills.
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Types of Volleyball Serves: What is a Topspin Serve?
To create topspin on the ball the server places their hand on the ball in such a way that it
generates forward rotation once contacted
making the top of the ball spin forward faster
increasing its speed and velocity as it travels in the air to the opposing court
so it drops out of the air quickly once it crosses the net.
Standing Topspin vs. Jump Topspin
A server can take a 3-4 step approach behind the service line and in the air contact the top third of the ball so it spins as it crosses the court. This is called a jump topspin serve. (Henry Stern)
A server can
stand on the ground and do a topspin serve without jumping first
On the beach court which is smaller in size, the topspin serve is quite effective since players have much less time to react to the serve.
Types of Volleyball Serves: What's a Coach Kill?
If the coach calls timeout and the next team's server misses their serve the coach's strategy is considered a "kill" or that point is attributed to the coach's action, this is a "coach kill"
What's a Coach Kill?
A coach kill is one of the serving terms used when a player on team a serves the ball into the net or commits a service error of any kind after the coach on team B called a time-out or substitution.
Since the coach called the substitution or the timeout to distract the opposing team's server and to break her concentration, if the coach's strategy works then the "kill" or that point is attributed to the coach's action and not due to any particular player or team action.
Types of Volleyball Serves: What is Friendly Fire?
Friendly Fire describes what happens when a ball served by one player hits their own teammate, in the back of the head, with the ball.
What is Friendly Fire?
Friendly fire is one of those funny volleyball terms which describes what happens when a ball served by one player hits their own teammate, in the back of the head, with the ball.
This is a fault and a point for the other team.
Types of Volleyball Serves: What is the Husband and Wife Play?
This is a serving strategy used by beach players who purposefully serve the ball so it lands between the left side and right side players on the opposing team, causing the two players to "fight' over who is going to receive serve.
Husbands and wives "fight" over things so this is why this has become commonly used beach volleyball jargon used in serving.
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