Can anyone help me figure out how to do a top spin jump serve?

Question

I can jump serve. I have the approach, and everything, but I am having trouble with the tops spin part. Anyone?

Answer 1

haha okay serving is a very tough thing to do, and it took me FOREVER to finally be able to do it the "right way" , so i definatly know where your coming from....here are some tips that i actually found extremely important and useful while learning how to get it over and just plain serve well.............

NEVER stand straight facing the court, angle yourself 45 degrees to the right

NEVER put extra steps into your serve, just step and drag, thats it

ALWAYS keep you hips, shoulder, arm, and hand OPEN!!!

NEVER try to just hit it as hard as you can, take time on checking your form, opening up and swinging through the ball

ALWAYS try to think about what your doing and where you want the ball to go

ALWAYS be positive and tell yourself "i can do it"

ALWAYS ask yourself "what went wrong" if you miss a serve or it does not go where you want it to go

***hope i helped and good luck with the serving!!!

Answer 2

[Edit] Most of my friends do "top spin" toss, and while I watched the game of US Men's, and all of them are actually toss the ball with "top spin" (top part of the ball going forward), so I would assume that the guy at about.com had a typo... or better yet, both are good ways of tossing for jump serve. By the way, I go with top spin toss.

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Toss the ball with backspin, and hit the top-center (back side) of the volleyball on its decent when you serve.

You may check out the following link and get all "details" (I mean word by word).

http://volleyball.about.com/cs/advancedi...