What are the benefits of being a left-handed setter?

Question

What are the benefits of being a left-handed setter?

Answer 1

Well most setters usually use the weak side to set the ball so being left handed helps because ur left side is dominant and it points towards your 10 for backrow hits and it can help with quick dumps.....

Answer 2

Usually, the other team has a hard time reading your shoulders when you're a lefty because there are so many right sided players. If you go up to tip the ball, they will expect your right hand and you can totally mess with their game by using the opposite arm. Lucky you!

Answer 3

With setting it doesn't really matter if you are right or left handed but you can get a good surprise tip that the other team won't be expecting

Answer 4

While you will learn to play the position like any right handed setter as a lefty you have the capacity of hitting with your dominant hand. You can set, dump or hit more effectively from the target position and or the right side. Back in '94 I had a left handed setter and we ran a 5-1. The setter accounted for just over 200 kills from the front row (in 30 matches) because she could set or swing on a perfect pass to the target area. It just had a way (at the high school level) of keeping offenses off balance - if they chose to block her she would set and if they didn't she could swing or set. Just because you are left handed doesn't mean the whole team has to be set up in reverse. There have been numerous left handed setters who work exceptionally well in a regular team scheme.

Answer 5

I have been playing and coaching for 24 yrs and I have never seen a left handed "only" setter. Good or great setters...it doesn't make a difference. Lefties set just like righties or they would be wanting the pass between the strong hitter and the middle hitter facing the offside hitter. Thus, requiring them to back set the strong hitter everytime. You play parallel to the net and so it doesn't matter while setting. Unless you have the Volleyball for Lefties book that has the whole team alignment reversed, you are learning the position just like a rightie. LOL

Answer 6

what aren't the benefits for being a left-handed setter?!

if your team plays a 5-1 (meaning you have 5 hitters and 1 setter on the court), when you are in the front row, you can jump up, act like you are gonna jump set, and then hit the c**p out of the ball suddenly! my setter does this all the time and it makes me sooo jealous! i love lefties! they're so lucky!!

Answer 7

I am a setter and my step brother is a setter...I am a righty and he is a lefty...I would kill to be left handed. This is why.

Being a setter means you play on the off-side or right side, which means that if you are right handed the ball has to come across your body before it gets to your dominant hand. If you are left handed the ball is already on your dominant side.

For setters it is really nice playing both a 5-1 and 6-2...as a lefty setter you can use your dominant hand to tip or take a swing at a pass and catch the other team off guard...This is because on defense it is easier to tell when a right handed setter is going to try and tip/dump with their right because they have to turn their body more, and when a righty goes and uses their left it is not as effective and easier to pass. A Lefty has all the strength and touch on that side so it is near impossible for the other team to figure them out.

Basically a lefty setter drives the other team nuts.

Answer 8

Setters position themselves in what we call "Position 7" (The spot between the Middle-Blocker and the Right Side Hitter) with their right arm next to the net and their bodies open to the serve-receive, or defense.

If you are a left handed setter, you can hit most passes with your dominant hand very easily, without giving away too much warning to the other team.

If you are right handed, you will either have to hit the ball with your off hand, or wait for the ball to come across your body and hit it with your dominant hand. This will give away any type of powerful hit to the other team because you must lineup your body with the pass.

Also:

Coaches love left handed Right-Side Hitters too, because they can approach from the outside of the court and hit with their dominant hand before the ball crosses the body. This is why they usually call the left side hitter, the power side because the ball is always in front of them. When you have a left handed RS hitter, it's basically like having two OHs.

Answer 9

you can catch the other team by surprise.

there was an overpass and i passed it while i was on the net and right back set it to me. the other team just thought i was going to set it over because the set was over my left shoulder. i stayed at the net and waited for the right time and jumped an smashed it down on their side..

haha it sounds like im bragging but just being a lefty in general is unexpected and greeeattt