Beach Volleyball Serving Tips – Secrets on How to Attack With Your Overhand Serve, Part 2
The short serve is another effective way of attacking with your serve, especially when playing against taller players. As I mentioned in a previous article, I compared the spike approach that a tall player needs to take to the runway an airplane needs to have in order to get liftoff. To gain momentum and gather speed, an airplane needs to travel down a long runway in order to get into the air.
The same can be said about tall volleyball players, who usually need abundant space to travel down their spike approach “runway” in order to gather the strength and momentum needed to get them in the air and to spike the ball hard.
They usually like to position themselves behind or around the ten foot line to begin to take a strong approach, which allows them not only to hit hard but to enables them to see where the open spaces are on the court to hit to. If you serve a tall player a short serve then you have cut off her runway or rather the area she needs to make a decent approach to the net.
You’ve also forced her to reduce the amount of time she usually takes to look for open spaces to hit to. Now, she has to pass, then back up (which we know running backwards in the sand is awkward and slows you down) get stopped, see the court and make her shortened abbreviated approach. Most taller players will then hit a softer ball, a weaker ball, a down ball to play it safe or they will place a shot somewhere in the court, which is easier for your team to defend or pick up.
Regardless of whether you choose to underhand serve, overhand serve with a floater, float jump serve, jump serve or use the sky ball the main key to scoring direct points in beach volleyball is to serve where there are open spaces on the court. Don’t allow yourself to be so drawn to or hypnotized by the two bodies standing on the other side that you serve an easy serve right at them.
For your serving drills in practice, you can set up targets, using your ball bag, your beach towel, your flip flops and even smaller objects like your bottle of sun block and place these in positions and spots around the court where players usually don’t stand in serve receive and you know that they would have to move out of their comfort zone to pass these balls.
Challenge yourself to serve a bag of balls at the beginning and end of practice, where all ten balls have to hit each target before you can move onto the next one. Yes it may take some time at the beginning to finish this drill but when you practice it regularly, in a game once the two players are in their serve receive position it will become second nature for you to serve to all these open areas on the court.
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