{"id":73858,"date":"2021-06-18T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=73858"},"modified":"2021-06-18T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:00:00","slug":"ditch-the-standing-serve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/18\/ditch-the-standing-serve\/","title":{"rendered":"Ditch the standing serve!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I previously wrote Serving: Stand or Jump?<\/a>. In that post I talked about the benefit of jumping vs. standing serves and shared some thoughts on when players should start to learn the jump. I don’t really want to rehash that here, as you can easily read it for yourself. Instead, let me take this space to make a plea,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the love of all that’s good and right, if you’re coaching high school boys, at least teach them the jump float!<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please don’t make me watch anymore boys’ high school (or older age group juniors) matches featuring predominantly lollipop serves. It’s so painful! I don’t care if it’s ugly. I’ve seen some pretty funky stuff among even professional players. At least it shows me that work is going into developing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And don’t just work on it in training. Make sure they do it in matches. Don’t allow fear of mistakes – either on your part or theirs – to keep them on the ground. It only hampers their development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, having to face tougher serves in practice will only help your passing get better as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, I know the players will make more mistakes in their learning process – probably a lot more. And yes, that can negatively impact the games and drills you use in practice. There are ways to mitigate that, however, such as using the tennis serve concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note, I’m using boys here not because I don’t think girls should or need to learn to float serve. They do, and my same view applies to them. I think that as soon as an athlete has the strength to serve the ball deep into the opposing court – which comes a bit quicker for boys, generally – they are well positioned to learn to jump serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In which I appeal to volleyball coaches – especially boys’ coaches – to teach their players the jump serve. Float or topspin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":73838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[289,416,448,453],"class_list":["post-73858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching","tag-serving-in-volleyball","tag-volleyball-jump-serve","tag-volleyball-serve","tag-volleyball-serving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}