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Volleyball
Strategies - How to Play Volleyball?
Learning about volleyball strategies.
How to
serve to score a point? Where to serve? How to line up on passing? How
to play defense
to dig more balls?
Volleyball
Strategies - Volleyball Blocking Strategies
Volleyball Blocking Strategies - Read Blocking
 Probably the most common way
to set up a volleyball block is "blocking
by reading the opponent", read blocking.
In read blocking blockers read
the setter to
determine where the setter sends the ball. When blockers see
where the ball goes, they react and move to set up the block
in front of the hitter.
After the first contact before the setter contacts the ball, blockers
need to be aware of the hitter's movements. Are hitters running inside?
How fast they are approaching? However, they won't commit to any of the
hitters - until the setter sets the ball.
Volleyball Blocking Strategies - Committed Block,
Commit
Blocking, Predicted Block
Often in top level volleyball blockers use other blocking style, in
which players commit to stop a specific hitter.
Middle blockers often
use this style to stop the opponent's middle attacker.
Or in the end of the game, blockers could decide to
stop the opponent's best hitter since most often s/he gets the set in
the final moments of the games.
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Strategies - Volleyball Passing
Strategies
Volleyball Strategies - Volleyball Passing
Position
Usually there are three passers to pass the ball in volleyball.
It is very common in junior volleyball that all
three passers divide the court equally - and changes are not made - no
matter what happens in the game.
It is a good idea to share
the court equally, if goal is to give everybody opportunity to learn to
pass, but let's think what we can accomplish, if we start changing the
passing line-up.
How
to Change Volleyball Passing Strategies - by Using Four
Passers?
This is not a common volleyball passing strategy at
all, but
I have seen one top level men's national team volleyball
team passing with four passers, the opposite hitter being the
extra passer when this team tried to stop the opponent's jump server.
What other
changes we can do in the passing line-up?
Volleyball Libero and Passing Skills
Libero specializes on defense and serve receive,
therefore
we should give more court for the libero.
Libero can easily take at
least 40%, maybe 50% of the court, or even more if the player is a
talented serve receiver. This makes the teammates' passing much easier
and
let's them to focus more on hitting.
How to Change the Volleyball Passing Line-Up?
How to Help a Teammate - and the Volleyball Team
to Play Better?
If one player struggles in passing or hitting, two other passers should
help this struggling player by covering more court. They should leave
just a little slice of
the court to him/her - to make it easier for him/her to pass or hit.
The players should not take the situation as a sign of lack of
trust. Everybody involved needs to understand changes are
made
for the team's benefit. Changes surely help the struggling individual,
but before anything else, it helps
the team to play better.
How to Stack Players on the Volleyball Court?
Volleyball Passing Strategies - Stacking Up Players to the Center.
Stacking up the players to the center of the court and leaving lines
open could be a solution, if the server tends to hit the powerful
serves to the center between the players.
Stacking up the players definitely makes passers' job easier against
the powerful serves to the seams. It
could also lead to a serving error - if all of a
sudden the server is tricked to change his serving style and direct the
serve towards line.
Volleyball Passing Strategies - Stacking Up
Players to the Corner.
If the team has scouted that one player tends to serve most of the
serves to
position 1 - why not to surprise this server and stack two passers to
cover position 1? If the server continues to serve to position
1, the passing becomes much easier. If the server
decides to move away from his/her favourite serve - it may
lead to a serving error or it could take the power off from his/her
serve.
Volleyball
Strategies
- Volleyball Serving
Volleyball strategies in serving and passing has become important
part of the game.
If at the top level the opponent is able to pass the
ball perfectly to the setter's hands, the chances to win the rally are
very low.
How to serve to help your team to score more points?
Volleyball Strategies - How to Serve?
Volleyball
Serving Strategies - Serve Position 1
Serving
to left back corner, position 1 or the left side line is a good choice
because it makes the setting much more difficult for the opponent's
setter.
The setters have to keep their eyes on the corner,
which
means it is extremely difficult to follow outside hitter and middle
hitter approaching to spike - which makes the timing between the setter
and hitters more difficult.
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Serving Strategies - Serve Short
When
serving short you could try to place the ball in front of the player
who has lined up too far from the net - or doesn't move forward very
well.
However,
you probably want to take your serving strategy further. If
you
have the opponent's best hitter on the position 4, you could serve the
ball
short to the position 4 and make his/her approach more difficult. Think
how
much harder it is for the hitter to pass the ball inside the 10 feet
line (3 meter line) and take steps back to start an approach.
You
wouldn't like to be served like that, right?
Volleyball
Serving Strategies - Serve the Ball into Setter's or Offensive Player's
Running Route
If
you have figured out which route the opponent's setter or offensive
player is running, you could serve the ball to somebody's running route
to mess up their offense.
You could do it for example when the
setter leaves very far from the back corner. It could be
your opportunity to serve a shorter ball into setter's running route -
it may end up hitting the setter, or some other player has to go in
front of the setter to pass the ball.
Volleyball Strategies
- Serving and Serve Receive Have Changed
Volleyball
strategies and the game itself with all the rule changes have taken
giant steps in the past
decade.
Maybe the biggest change has
occurred in the serving and serve receive aspects of the game.
Volleyball serve
and serve receive have become a dominant part of the game recently.
Today the success of a team almost solely depends on serving
and
serve receive.
Let's go back to 1990's for a moment..
Volleyball
Strategies Flash Back to the 1990's
I recently watched a recording of the final match of 1990
World
Championships. This Italy vs. Cuba match was a good reminder how much
the game has
changed in the recent years.
Volleyball Setting - High
and Slow Sets
In 1990 World Championship match setters were
setting HIGH and SLOW sets
to the right and left side hitters. Since quick offense was
missing, it
really wasn’t that important to
get a perfect pass to the setter.
Nowadays when the sets are fast to any position the accurate passes are
essential.
Volleyball Float Serves
In Italy-Cuba match the serving looked totally
different, often the
serves were just high easy floaters over the net. There were no jump
serve bombers, or jump float servers – even their float serves looked
so easy compared to today’s float serves.
Today exceptional serve receive skills are
required to be able to pass current tough serves.
... so the game is very different nowadays. Therefore, do you think we
should also practice differently than in 1990's?
How should we practice
nowadays? What do we need to focus in practice?
Volleyball
Strategies - Volleyball Serving and Passing Strategies Today
What
Volleyball
Drills Coach Should Run to Meet Today's Requirements?
Volleyball Serving Strategies and
Serve
Receive Strategies! We
believe
serve receive and serve
are the most important part of the game today.
For that reason we pay great deal of attention to volleyball passing
and serving strategies.
It is important to hone the technical
skills of various serve receive techniques (there are many of them!)
and
serving styles. I don’t think we exaggerate at all if we say we use
30-50 % of the practice time to practice serve receive or serving
drills.
Run Game-like Volleyball Drills for Serving and Serve Receive!
As soon as
the basic techniques have been learned, serving and serve
receive need to be practiced in the game-like situation.
Game like
volleyball drills maybe a norm for the serve receive, but they need to
be applied
to the serving also.
For example it is not the best
practice to make players do their serving drills in the end of
practices - just doing few minutes of them – and having no
targets or real passers to receive those serves.
 Few Tips How to Run Volleyball Drills
for Serving and Serve Receive
It is very common to see a team practicing serving for few minutes in a
hurry in the end of the practice!
Volleyball
serving definitely needs much more practice time than that. Serving is
important in modern volleyball!!
When running serving drill, it is a
good idea to combine it with passing. It
is more challenging and better learning experience for the server to
see a passer receiving the serve. Or at least players should always
have targets where to aim the serve.
Volleyball
Strategies - About Missing Volleyball Serves and Serving Tough
Why the players are missing volleyball serves
constantly?
Newer and especially older volleyball fans may
wonder about the huge amounts of missed
serves in high level volleyball today. I am sure you saw the
same trend in Beijing Olympic Games Volleyball - and you'll see it in
many
competitions in the future.
Why even top players who practice volleyball daily are missing so many
serves?
Missing Volleyball Serves is Not Good, But Risks Need to Be Taken
A missed
serve is never a
good thing – but it is just a fact that nowadays servers need to take
risks to beat up the opponent’s strong offense - and when
taking risks
and serving hard, the amount of errors will be higher.
My personal opinion is: I like taking a risk with the serves, if there
is a good return. I can live with missed serves
– if the team gets bunch of
points in return with the serves that go in.
Volleyball
Strategies: Volleyball Serving Strategies - Serving Tough Against the
Better Teams
The
Story from the Previous Coach
My ex-coach once educated us about serving with a story when preparing
our team for
two upcoming matches. The first match was against "an easier
opponent", which was
followed by the tough match against the national championship team:
“There
is no need to take high risks with serves when playing a weaker team.
Let them do the points for you – they will mess up enough points with
their offense for you to win.”
“Let's imagine.. if we
would play against the best team around, the National
Team.. What would be the only way
for us to score some points?”
The coach was looking for the answer: "Serving
extremely tough."
The coach continued: "If we would serve all match as hard as
we ever could, we would have a
chance to score a point every now and then.. if those
star players happen to shank the ball. However, if the
National Team would pass the
ball up, you would get killed..."
"Therefore when we play against the second opponent, the national
championship team
we will serve tough and take risks."
Well, the coach was
exaggerating a little bit – but I am sure you got the idea behind
serving tough - which often leads to missing serves,
unfortunately.
Be sure to check out few tips how to play
volleyball and organize serve receive and serve volleyball drills.
P.S.
Final between Cuba and Italy in 1990 World Championships is still my
favourite volleyball match. Mr. Despaigne was an amazing player, wasn't
he?
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