Improve With Volleyball Videos and Keys

Serving Keys for Volleyball 

• Fastest way to score
• Best defense is a good offense

FLEAN Serve - Flat Float and Clean no spin

• Weight on back foot
• Open back foot, hips + shoulders
• Elbow back and hand high
• Low lift in front
• Step into ball. Explode.
• Pop high five to target, FLEAN, strong locked wrist, finish hand high
• Hit ball at Equator

Jump Flean Serve

• 3 or 4 step approach (RL-RL, or LR-LR if lefty) 
• Elbow back, hand high
• Hold ball shoulder height
• Open hips
• Low lift on 2nd to last step
• Pop high five to target

Passing Keys for Volleyball

Passing Key Words

• Wide base with push off 1-2-3 footwork
• Medium Posture (Pre-serve routine start hands on knees, then hands out, no up-and-down movements)
• Track Serve: Read angle of serve first, then depth next
• Platform pick a side
• Go get it! Commit “My ball”
• Shrug-Tilt-Hold platform to middle

Passing Key Concepts

• Power of good. Pass middle instead of trying to be perfect.
• Laser focused on the finish "ball to middle"
• Feel Simple and Quiet
• Go get it! Cut ball off on deep.

Setting Keys for Volleyball

Setting Key Words

• Compact posture (hands at mid-body)
• Right foot forward
• Face front target
• Hands in the shape of the ball early. FOR BEGINNERS: Sign Language Moose for location.
• Push your feet through the floor
• Full extension (“Superman”)
• Freeze extension (hands high at finish) for Location (height, depth, zone)
• Back set looks and feels like front set

Hitting Keys for Volleyball

• Athletic posture
• Approach (Right)---LEFT---Right-Left
• STICKY LEFT step
• Slow directional sticky left-foot step
• Fast burst to right-foot plant step pointing at setter
• Open the door - hips and shoulders face setter
• Throw hands high and elbow back 
• Explode up to the ball. High point.
• Tilt and extend shoulder max reach
• Slam the door shut - finish facing net
• Hit ball hard (increase to 9 out-of 10) at 10 o'clock
• High wrist snap to target
• Land safely on two feet

Defense Keys for Volleyball

Focus Keys

• Read hitter: Angle of approach > shoulders > arm swing > hand 
• Verbalize what you see
• Be ready. Go get it! Ball UP!
• Pride: Keep ball off the floor.

Defense Keys

• Wide base push off 1-2-3 footwork
• Hips + Shoulders towards middle of the court
• Low + forward posture (touch floor with hands)
• Be stopped at hitter contact 
• Shrug-Tilt-Hold platform to middle

Sprawls and dives

• Shoulders low to the floor
• Extend forward through ball parallel to floor
• Dig while on feet

Blocking Keys for Volleyball

• Athletic posture
• Verbalize what you see
• Be Athletic. Get arms and hands in front of hitters.
• Higher hands for easier timing
• Penetrate wide rounded hands over net, surround ball to floor
• Take angle
• FINISH hands high

Outside blocker SETS BLOCK

• Read hitter 
• Front angle-of-approach, call “inside” or “outside”
• Line up arm swing (outside hand/angle, inside hand/line)

Middle Blocker CLOSE BLOCK

• Read setter extension
• Sprint left/right close block 

Off-blocker

• Tipper picker upper

Team Defense Keys for Volleyball

• Perimeter Defense positions (including off-blocker "Tipper picker Upper”
• Go get it! Commit “My ball” defense commitment
• Seamless defense
• Parallel lines (cross over like sliding glass door)
• Open up, point, and call

Serve Receive Keys for Volleyball

Serve receive considerations

1. Rotational order when serve is contacted
2. Put best passers in position to cover      court effectively and take most serves (3-person pass)
3. Put Setter in place close and easy to un (setter release) to net/setting position
4. Put hitters in place easiest to hit preferred set. Right-handed hitters stack left is easiest.