Help with my overhand serve?

Question

heres the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YPu2YxipDQ

tell me what im doing wrong?

no

'your ugly'

'your fat'

'your retarted'

'your stupid'

and all that

ive been working on it since this morning

i dont know what im doing wrong even after i watched it.

it hurts my shoulder and i dont really get power and my serves doing go down, they kind of go really high and fall.

just last year, my serves used to be really good. (not to sound concited.) they would go barely over the net and down. but they had virtually no power.

help?

Answer 1

You really need to fire your arm WAY faster to get any power at all behind that serve.  Power?  Don't flick your wrist and it will have power.  Flick your wrist, and it will be a floater.

Also, your feet don't seem to move.  take a step when you serve, and move quicker.  I'm not trying to make you feel bad, but mostly your hand looks lethargic.  Your not fast enough to make the serve go over.  Do some arm drills to work on it.  Just Remember:

QUICK ARMS AND HAND!

Pretend your arm is a bow and arrow, and your arm is the arrow shooting forward.  This is coming for a girl who knows what she's talking about, because i couldn't get my serves over and one point too, and now they are really good.  trust me and just practice.

Answer 2

1 THING IS YOUR HITTING IT WITH THE SIDE OF YOUR PALM, DON'T DO THAT, PUT THE BALL IN YOUR HAND, PUT YOUR FIST UP, SWING YOUR ARM BACK, SWING IT FORWARD, DON'T TURN YOUR HAND/FIST SIDEWAYS, KEEP IT STRAIGHT,HIT THE BALL AS HARD AS YOU CAN, MAKE SURE YOU HIT IT FORWARD THOUGH, INSTEAD OF HITTING IT STRAIGHT UP IN THE AIR, HOPE I HELPED

Answer 3

Well,

As i watched your serves I noticed that you dont hit with your whole hand. Also when you go to hit your feet look good, but when i hit i dont pick up my foot i drag it. Also make sure you pull through ( your arm). It may depend on how you throw the ball up. I hit jumpers and floaters. Be careful because depending on your type of serves you dont want too much if any top spin until you serve. That means when you throw it up you need to toss it straight up make sure it is infront of you and as you toss, take a step and then sinish strong.

Answer 4

ok to help u to get ur over hand serve is to get a volleyball and get in ur serve position stand in front of a wall! throw the ball up and hit it against the wall but stop it when it hits the wall!! also work on weights to help u get stronger

Answer 5

You are lifting your hand up too much..when you hit..you are hitting up...u really should try hitting more straightand you r tossing kinda of fast..l;ike you are tossing and then hitting really quick..try a little higher toss up and take more time....just work on aiming more down...and the while bouncing the ball thing...our volleyball coach said that...doing that doesnt really affect anything..it just makes the person who has it feel like they have a certain amount of control over it.

Answer 6

i kinda dont know sotrry

Answer 7

Like tennis, you have to get the ball out...not up....you almost need to arch your back to make contact, which loses power and accuracy. Try tossing the ball out from the body and making contact moving your body forward toward the target. It will not feel natural at first, but you will get comfortable with the motion with practice.

Answer 8

Wow... one of the girls i worked with had the SAME problem.

She also messed up her blocks, she went straight up... sorry for the tangent.

First of all dont bend that wrist it cusions the hit and makes it go slow. Make sure you dont hit the underside of the ball either.

2nd of all, and i cannot stress this enough. transfer your weight from one leg to the other. Think of it as 2 phases of the serve.

            Phase 1:   First weight is on you back leg, throw the ball and bring your shoulder slightly down.  

            Phase 2: As your making contact with the ball put ur weight on your front foot. It adds great control and gives you that extra oomph.

If you look close you can see your weight transfer in the video. Its too early. Make sure you start the transfer either exactly when u make contact or just before you make contact.

Dont listen to that guy, you dont need to take that extra step, it throws off ur accuracy and balance

BTW, you have pretty good form, maybe its time to opt for the Jump Servers or floating serves? Dont be so nice on the other team :P

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Answer 9

it looks to me like you are bending your arm and just  kind of flopping it like a wet noodle (srry cant think of how to explain it). you want your arm to stay stiff through the serve for one thing.

you are also turning your arm and your hand over. think "stiff and straight through"

dont bend your elbow behind your head like a chicken wing.

you want it to loolk like it would if you were a waiter with a tray.

toss--toss ball in front of hitting shoulder

draw open--draw back with your elbow high and straight, finger spread and held strong

step--transfer weight toward target

pop-- strike the center of the ball

follow though---look the whole time where you want the ball to go (not the ground) and end with your hand pointing there.

Answer 10

your toss is fairly short from what I saw... first you should try and toss higher or raise your arm and then do the same toss... this is just from what I saw... and because there was no net I couldn't tell if it need power or what... and oh try and and stretch out your arm a bit more hitting the ball at a higher contact... this will allow you to hit it hard, long and down! ( I personally do a Jump/Float serve )

Answer 11

Okay....First of all, your left leg is too far foward.  Try it with your feet almost even and gain momentum by standing a few feet behind the serving line.  Once there, take a few quick steps forward and make it part of your serve motion.  You should be tossing high and slightly in front of you and you start that while in motion.  You need to throw the ball high enough and hit it at the apex or highest point.  After the toss your left palm should be swinging to the left and it should be open....this opens your shoulders and squares them to the net.  When on the down swing you must follow through.  Your arm seems to be going down.  It is hard to explain here, but if you open your body and your left palm goes left your right hand/arm at the end will be forced to follow through to your left side.  It should end around your hip somewhere.  It is all about timing and momentum.  

1. quick steps

2. good ball toss

3. reach, hit, follow through (after the toss, left hand/arm pushes to the left and opens your body while you hit the ball you are forced to follow through w/ your right arm and it swings left.

Be careful on timing.  This does not mean to swing and hit so the ball goes left everytime.  You can place your serves if you time correctly and follow through correctly.  Your feet and hand positions will help you place the serve too.