What are the different types of serves in volleyball?

Question

such as underhand, overhand, what else???

Answer 1

jump serve

Answer 2

1.under arm service

2.cut service(spike)

3.jump service

Answer 3

undherhand serve, overhand serve, float serve, short serve, jump serve, ace serve

Answer 4

Ones not covered... seems to be...

Windmill serve.  I find this hard to describe although I use very regularly. You act like some catapult if which you sling your arm over your back - producing excessive spin on the ball.  It is worthwhile developing - because it catches many receivers unawares, who have not experienced receiving it before. When you receive it late - you lose control of the ball and see it spinning out of court. It helps to relax, to add the spin, and you can use this without tiring yourself out because you are using your bodyweight.

Left handed serve (or just your other arm) - it is good to develop this also, so that you'll be stronger in this arm, and more confident at doing left handed spikes, etc.

It's usually not a strong serve, unless you've developed it well - but it can catch the other side unawares, when you suddenly switched arms - and adds light relief.

For a regular spike serve - you do not need to jump up and hit it or hit the ball high. just holding the ball relaxed high, and then spiking it (with extra wrist movement) will suffice.

You use a bent elbow, that straightens.  Don't use your shoulder muscles - at all.  The speed of the elbow determines how hard the ball will be hit.

You know you got the spin going if it hits the top of the net and it then goes over. You can do this on purpose to check out the spin.  Also using a lightweight ball volleyball helps with the spin.

You can always experiment - and hit the volleyball differently than 'normal' just to see what effects you can create?

So that the receivers just don't know what to expect next?

There are different ways of hitting the ball ... Use your imagination - you may invent a new serve.

Answer 5

two types of overhand serves are jumpserves(you pretty much do your spiking approach, but don't spike the ball down), and a floater(just an overhand but you hit the ball in a certain spot..maybe right below the place you pump it?)

also, for underhand serves...you serve either facing the net(what i used to do), or facing the bleachers and hitting it sideways.

hope i helped. :)

Answer 6

I think that's all

Answer 7

there are actualy many different types of serves.   There are float overhand serve, topspin overhand serve.  There are underhand serve.  There are also topspin jumpserve and float jump serve.  But i think those are it.

Answer 8

Gosh there's a lot....

Underhand Serve

Overhand Serve

Sky Ball Serve

Line and Cross-Court Serve

Top Spin

Floater

Jump Serve

Jump Float

Round-House Serve

Hybrid Serve

I usually use jump serve or regular overhand serve. :) Sometimes when I serve really hard it's a line and cross-court serve.

Answer 9

floater- the ball has no spin

down ball- has a lot of spin

short serves and deep serves and spot serving

Answer 10

a normal overhand

jumpserve

a side serve (when you stand side ways its underhand)

normal underhand

and you can also put top spin on a floater and it works realy good it looks like its coming high and then it drops down which is a hard diver

and thats all i know.

Answer 11

Over-Hand Jump serve:

1> Power serve with top spin;

2> Floater;

Over-Hand on the ground:

1> Power serve with top spin;

2> Floater;

3> Back spin;

4> Side spin.

Under-Hand on the ground:

1> back spin;

2> top spin;

3> side spin;

4> floater (no kidding, my coach could do 30 Ace's in a role)

Answer 12

usually no one ever under hand serves especially when you get to higher levels of play. there is a float serve and a top spin serve. You can also Jump serve. There are a few different ways o jump serve. You can have a jump float or you can jump and have topspin it all depends and your follow-threw

Answer 13

s***w the underhand, that's too low for you.  If you are a beginner for overhand serving, try floaters.  Thats when the ball "floats" in the air.  You just hit the ball totally square with a hard hand. Also dont swing all the way through.  Floaters are hard to pass too, a lot of higher level players use it too.  THen there's topspin, which is probably one of the least consistent serves.   If you want to try topspin, which is when the ball spins,  snap hard on the ball and swing all the way through.  Then there's a jump serve.  Do your spiking approach and hit it at the highest level your arm will go.  You can either do a floater jumps serve or topspin jump serve--your choice.  Good luck!

Answer 14

The different types of serves in volleyball are over-head serve, under-hand serve, jump serve, and walk serve. These are the only ones I know.

Answer 15

Dont serve underhand unless your on the beach and can do a skyball, but even those are pretty lame except by a couple old timers. My serve of choice has always been the jump floater if your a good leaper this is the way to go, as the ball really rides up on players.  The so called windmill, or roundhouse serves, are absolutley worthless if your not jumping dont waste your time putting top spin on it, develop a floater, if your having problems making it float try closing your top digits of your fingers kind of making a paw and serving it that way to get some action on it.

Answer 16

Because some are easier to learn than others. Beginners usually use the underhandserve. Once mastered the person can begin to work on their over hand serve.

side note: kudos to the person who talked about the windmill serve. I use it all the time. It get our team lots of points! :)