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Volleyball Techniques – Controversial Passing Technique

This volleyball techniques section gives one example which divides opinions. It demonstrates there is not one standard way to play volleyball. For example serve receive can be performed with several different ways.

There are several reasonable volleyball techniques

It is good to keep in mind that there are several different setting, passing, hitting, serving and defense techniques. Some coaches may prefer other techniques over the others and they all could be reasonable ways to play volleyball.

In this section we’ll bring up facts how to practice this one specific technique. If you want to read more about why practicing this and other “odd techniques” could be a good idea, go to “How to Play Volleyball” section and click “Volleyball Strategies – Mindset of a Successful Coach and Player”

What is “knee on the ground” serve receive technique?

As we mentioned on “how to play volleyball” section this topic “knee on the ground” serve receive is a very controversial technique and volleyball people have different strong opinions about.

It is amazing how this technique goes much unnoticed, even though many top level international volleyball players are using it. Years ago when I first heard about it, I did not believe it – but after seeing the proof from the video tapes I had to believe it exists.

What do we mean by “knee on the ground”?

Player receives a low ball near floor level by placing the other knee on the ground. The knee on the ground helps player to get better balanced position. It is often called three point serve receive technique (two feet and knee on the ground equals three)

Volleyball Techniques - How to practice “knee on the ground” serve receive?

Practicing these volleyball techniques require high skills from the person who serves or tosses the ball to the passer.

If serves/tosses are not accurate enough when placing the ball, the drill doesn’t serve its purpose. Often for junior volleyball players these tosses or serves are simply too difficult to perform. It is important to use a person with good ball control as the ball feeder.

The server or ball feeder needs to target the balls low in front of the passer. It allows the passer to take a low position, put the other knee on the ground and set up a stable position to pass the ball up to the target.
These techniques should be practiced on different distances from the net, not on short serves only. Very often top spin jump serve will drop quickly and the player is forced to perform this low serve receive form.
When practicing these volleyball techniques there are not many servers who are able to put the accurate ball by serving over the net, therefore it is preferable for the server/tosser to step on the box somewhere in the middle of the court and serve/toss the over the net from there.
Excellent help on this type of drill would be an automatic ball feeder which sends an accurate ball.
Again to make everything run smoothly and efficiently, remember to have a target to return the ball to the feeder. Having “two balls on rotation” between the tosser, passer and the target helps to keep up the tempo.

Volleyball Pictures in the Members Section

To get a better understanding about the “knee on the ground”- serve receive technique, we have added few pictures to the members section.

There you can see pictures from junior players up to the most famous volleyball players who are using this “knee on the ground” passing technique.

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