Volleyball Drills For Serving Overhand, Float and Jump Serve Technique

These volleyball drills for serving help you to work on getting the ball to specific zones on the opposing team's court using the float serve and jump serve.

So from now on when working on volleyball drills for serving in practice by yourself or in open gym your goal is to attempt 30 serves and to get at least 15 in the court.

Volleyball Drills For Serving
What To Work on In Practice - Overhand and Floater Serve Practice

For more advanced players who you use the overhand serve technique like the float jump serve or the jump topspin serve or any similar overhand serving technique you would do the same thing in performing those volleyball drills for serving but with one difference.

I'm going to assume you know how to get the ball over the net consistently so now you need to work on getting the ball to very specific areas or zones on the opposing team's court.

Volleyball Drills For Serving Short

Your volleyball drills for serving should help you to work on serving the three short zones closest to the net on the court, specifically zones 4, 3 and 2.

When you serve the ball short that puts the opposing team in difficulty when they try and run certain offensive strategies so its your job to be able to serve short when your coach tells you to or when you see that's a good possible point scoring opportunity.

Use the same format I described here on how to keep score of your total attempted serves vs the serves you actually make in.

As an advanced player you can increase the amount of total serves attempted to a particular spot.

Instead of 30, attempt 50 and challenge yourself to serve right to a certain zone. One more thing you can do is set a time limit.

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Are you a tough volleyball server? ⁠
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As a tough volleyball server, your job is to be comfortable serving anywhere and anyone from behind the service line with pace and precision in order to score points.⁠
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When you do your volleyball drills for serving practice you want to do tons of reps to every single one of the six positions on the court.⁠
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You want to be able to hit those targets from anywhere behind the service line. ⁠
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Targets to aim for⁠ during your volleyball drills for serving:
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-serve seams⁠
-serves the sidelines⁠
serve outside hitters deep in the court⁠
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Some players think that being a tough volleyball server means you need to really be sneaky and try and fake out the serve receive by not showing where you are going to serve.⁠
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On the contrary I say...let everybody know where you are going to serve.⁠
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Face Your Target.⁠

How To Score Yourself During Your Volleyball Drills For Serving

Give yourself 5 minutes and attempt to serve 50 balls to zone 3 and keep your score of how many you make and how many you attempt.

Your goal is to make a minimum of 25 which is 50% of ALL the balls you serve.

When you consistently start getting more than 50-60% of the balls to the chosen zone you know you are improving.

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I share alot of individual, partner and easy-to-do volleyball serving drills we do in class with my followers.

Many of these volleyball practice drills you can do at home by yourself or try at your next practice with your teammates.

If you're a B team or JV player trying to make varsity next year...your goal should be to complete 1000 reps a day of at least three of the basic skills on your own...volleyball passing, serving and setting should be at the top of the list.

Volleyball Drills For Serving
Where Do You Go From Here?

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