How do you do a floater serve in volleyball?

Question

* some people tell me to snap my write and some tell me not to..am i supose to ?

Answer 1

Serve as if you regularly, but slap the ball and do not follow through and DO NOT snap your wrist. For more power, use your abdominal muscles by crunching forward.

**EDIT**

If you snap your wrist then the serve will be a topspin. Your goal for a floater is to serve the ball over with no motion.

One exercise is to throw a ball up in the air, don't spin it. That's an example of what a floater will look when you serve it..

The other exercise is to throw the ball and spin it with your wrist. That's a topspin..

I hope this exercise helps you understand the floater

Answer 2

No snap of wrist and no follow thru.

It feels like your swing arm is making a "sudden stop" after contacting the ball.

Answer 3

A floater is when the volleyball floats in the air, somehow wiggling back and forth so that once a passer goes to pass it, it wiggles away from them. To serve one of these, proceed as you would overhand serve, but do NOT follow through all the way, stop your hand after hitting the ball. These should be fairly easy if you know how to overhand serve. HOPE THIS HELPS!

Answer 4

A floater is like a knuckle ball in baseball.

By hitting the ball without giving it any spin, the ball is unstable and moves unpredictably, making it hard to pass.

Below are few tips:

1.  Keep your wrist firm and toss the ball in front of you.  Do not toss it too high.

2.  Hit the center of the ball with your palm but do not snap your wrist when making the contact.   Make the hit clean and solid.

3. Do not fully follow through with your swing.  As you hit the ball you should freeze.

Basically, you're trying to hit the ball and make it not spin at all.  As mentioned above, just remember to avoid high toss, wrist snap, and full follow-thru.

Answer 5

Step 1:

Stand roughly a foot behind the endline.

Step 2:

Face a forty five degree angle with your front foot pointing forward and your opposite foot almost point sideways with the weight on your back foot.

Step 3:

Hold the ball in the hand that is not hitting the ball straight in front of you at about waist height.

Step 4:

Have your hitting arm slightly bent, pointing upwards behind your head.

Step 5:

Toss the ball a little over head height about one foot in front of you with no spin.

Step 6:

Shift weight to front foot or step forward and hit the back of the ball straight on with your palm.

Step 7:

Finish with your hand facing forward, do not follow all the way through.