Serving & doing the approach in volleyball.?

Question

I NEED MAJOR HELP with those two.

I don't know how to move my feet when I'm doing the approach. I kind of like.. move my feet when someone is skipping..

And my serve..I don't know when to hit the ball and when to take a step forward. So, my ball doesn't go over the net, it hits the net.

If you guys, or someone, could help.. it'd be really great!

Thanks.

Answer 1

practice makes perfect... u have identified ur problem now work on the problem until u a good at it.

watch tennis matches look at the players and practice that while watching in your lounge eventually u'll get there.

good luck

Answer 2

It's very challenging to learn a movement/motion from just reading a written description of that motion.  

Obviously, that's why it's best to have a coach or other player demonstrate in person for you.

But if you don't have someone for that....

By 'approach', I assume you mean the footwork for a spike approach.

If so, here's a page with description of the basic four-step approach: http://www.volleyballadvisors.com/volley...  

For serving, will assume you're playing at a level above simple under-hand serve.

Also, assume you're doing a basic overhand serve as opposed to roundhouse serve.

The same site from above has following info, plus a short video clip example http://www.volleyballfiles.com/serving.h...

In the serve, note how the player's first step forward with her left foot occurs at SAME time she tosses ball for her right hand to hit.

(of course you reverse this if you are left handed).

Their video clip demos a float serve, but note you can use essentially same motion to do a topspin.  

The key difference is changing how you toss ball to yourself.

For floater, you toss the ball so that it would land on your face as you step into it, and hit with a quick 'punch' that has very little (if any) follow-through arm motion.

To topspin, toss the ball so that as you step forward under it, it would come down just a bit behind your head (if you were to allow the toss to fall to floor).

Since ball is a little behind you, you will have to arch backwards and stretch to reach it with your hitting hand.

If you also hit ball with a strong whipping/snapping action in the wrist, while hitting through the ball and following-through with your arm (as opposed to 'pulling your punch' in a floater) you should get a topspin.

Learning how much force to hit with, in conjunction with how much whip in the wrist, will determine whether or not your serve goes over, and whether it stays in bounds.

Note that you can do both floaters and topspins with a roundhouse serve also, but that's a different serve technique.

Ideally it's best to learn both, so you can try to catch your opponents off guard when they get used to seeing you serve in one particular style.  

Good luck,

dwb

Answer 3

You can do good service only with help of instructor on real court. In this case all details are important and some of them are visible only for experts.