Do you think the jump float serve will ever replace the standing float serve?

Question

First of all, I'm talking about volleyball at a competitive level. We won't teach little kids to do jump floaters.

So, with the many advantages of the jump floater over the standing floater, do you think it will ever replace it?

What do you think the serving will be like in 5 years at the highest levels?

Answer 1

Well as a volleyball player i would say that it could replace it but then the middle school kids will stand their most in the high school doesnt do jump serve but yet again they do so it all depends.  I just doubt it though.

Answer 2

I think it will totally replace it! 5 years, i think it will be the same serving styles or someone with invent a new way of serving!

um i saw you play in IL. I live in IL so i was just wondering where you play at. you can email me if you dont want to say! im just curious

Answer 3

First of all, what exactly do you mean by a competitive level?  For me, it got competitive in middle school...so if your thinking that way, then no.  College...probably still no.  I just finished playing and there are many players who still prefer standing serves because it eliminates possible errors.  And why not teach kids to do jump float?  You think they'll pick it up that easy when they get into the upper levels if they haven't seen it?  When we teach camps, we do an afternoon optional session for anyone intersted in learning a jump serve (top or float).  It's much easier to start kids off when they're young than to get them to completely switch over when they're in higher levels.  I don't think it'll ever completly replace a standing serve, it's just too consistant to get rid of.  In 5 years, of course it'll be quicker, more agressive etc., as people continue to eat food with growth hormones (put in beef to make them mature faster..etc), they will mature faster, become stronger and more agitile at a younger age.   Either that or we'll be maturing so fast that we'll ALL have arthritis by the age of 16 and will barely be able to walk.

Answer 4

Yes, jump floaters and jump topspin serves are already replacing standing floaters at competitive levels.  Standing float serves may not be completely abandoned but more and more skilled players are using jump serves.  

If you compare most recent Olympic games to to the one 20 years ago, you will notice that almost every today's player does jump serves whereas most serves done back then were standing floaters.

I recently watched a video of a US men's match in 1984 Olympics and saw Steve Timmons, the best hitter of the time, serving standing floaters.  Today's leading attackers like Dante, Giba, Leonel Marshall, and many other, all use jump serves and these people set new standards and draw a lot of followers.

I think this jump serving trend is largely due to considerable improvement in physical ability of the new generation.  Today's players are taller and can jump higher.  6'5" used to be good height for middles but now there are 6'8" OH's.

Thus, I figure that at high level competition, we will rarely see regular standing float serves and in 5 years at the highest level, monstrous 30 ft. attack(jump topspin) will rule.

BTW, FYI, faster floaters create greater movement than slower ones.  By the laws of physics, when speed doubles, air resistance quadruples.  If you ever played outdoor, you should know that serving floaters against the wind results in more movement of the ball obviously due to greater air resistance.  So jump floaters should have more movement than standing loaters.

P.S. To those conservative old timers, if you don't keep up with the new trend, you will be outdated.  No change also means no improvement.

Answer 5

I play university volleyball and i rarely see anyone serving froma  normal stand still...it is either a jump spin serve or jump float serve.

when perfected i think that these serves are harder to return then normal serves, but it takes a long time to do it consistantly

In my experience the jump float is much more difficult to return then a jump spin serve because it moves side to side and still has some juice on it. the spin serve is easy to return because all you have to do is let it hit you and the spin will help you get it up on its own.

i still do a standing serve in games, but that is because i am a smaller guy so it is not as advantagous for me to do a jump serve, i do find that the standing serve is a bit easier to control and easier to hit positions 2,3, and 4 which i like to do on short serves...but they are easier to return because you have more time to set up under them and over head pass it

i think the future of vball will be more float serving then spin serving thought, and really a float serve either way is not meant to get aces (that is the purpose of a spin serve). A float serve is a serve used to pick spots more affectively and pick on weaker passing players. it is more of a thinking players serve

Answer 6

Every volleyball player should have at least 4 serves to go to when needed. Both serves are important and can increase a serves unpredictability. I think if you need a faster floater that doesn't need to go up much before it comes down, you go with a jump floater, if you need a slower serve to create more action on the ball, go for the standing floater.

Answer 7

Personally, I do not think the risk/reward is worth it.  You add risk, but you do not add enough reward.  The jump floater is harder to do than the standing floater.  I do not really believe that the jump floater will get more aces than the standing floater.  

I do not think that the jump floater will replace the standing floater.

Answer 8

doubt it standing is much more effective in my opinion

Answer 9

For me it went:

1. underhand serve

2. overhand, but just getting it over the net

3. on the ground floater

4. on the ground top spin

5. jump over

6. jump floater

7. jump top spin

so yeah i think it will go on to jump floater

Answer 10

I think that it will probably replace it. As it looks a lot cooler and takes a lot more technical ability to complete it properly. That is my opinion anyway!!!!

Answer 11

I don't think so.

Even at the most competitive level, some seasoned players would still prefer standing serve, including standing floater.

Just watch Olympics to find me some proof.