Volleyball serve footwork?

Question

Can anyone tell me the proper footwork for an overhand serve for a right handed hitter? I have been taught two techniques and am very confused. Do you start with L foot forward, throw, and step R hitting and final step left after you hit the ball? Or is it L forward, throw and step R, hit and step L?

Answer 1

My coach taught us:

Right foot slightly in front

toss with your left hand, and make the toss out towards your right side and high!

step with the left

then hit. :)

and you wanna hit it towards the center of the ball b/c if you hit to high it will go high over the net and put more spin on it.

The closer to the center the likely you are to float serve it.

Answer 2

okay i've been to many volleyball camps and all the coaches their seem to be in an agreement about serving footwork......

you know how in a car their are so many different things in it that make it work and their are also a ton of things that break in it?

but then a skateboard has only the basic things and they have less things that break??

serving is the same concept.

start with your right foot slightly in front (just like you would for passing and hitting)

place the ball in your left hand, and draw your elbow back (like you would if you were using a bow and arrow) toss it with your left hand and take a step with your left foot (the step and toss should be basically simultaneously). make sure that you toss high enough and over your right shoulder. you want to make contact with the ball when your arm is completely extended and in the meat of your hand, not your fingers. if you are short serving then stop your swing after contact but if you are deep serving finish your swing.

NEVER step with your right foot if you are right handed.. whoever put that obviously has never played sports because doing so would make you incredibly off-balence

and make sure that your far enought behind the line because in indoor volleyball their is NEVER EVER a time when you can step on the line when serving, that's called a foot-fault and it gives the other team a point and the ball.

the less movements you use, then the less things their are to go wrong.

Answer 3

What the proper technique is for a right hand hitter is you put your left foot infront and throw the ball and after its hit step with your right foot. For beach volleyball cause Im not sure which type your talking about make sure your feet dont pass the line. In indoor sometimes your right foot after you hit the ball is aloud to step over, but in beach you'll be called.

Good luck in volleyball :)

Answer 4

We were just taught this today at my volleyball practice. Start with your left foreward, tranfer your weight to your back foot, and step with your left. If your spiking, you do left, a dynamic right, and a quick left again to make yourself jump higher.

Answer 5

The first one is the one that my coach read in one of those coaching magazines so she told us to do that.