Quickly Elevate Your Game With A Deadly Jump Float Serve in Volleyball With Coach April's Tips

Quickly Elevate Your Game With A Deadly Jump Float Serve in Volleyball With Coach April's Tips
In this simple guide, I teach you how to improve your jump float serve in volleyball by measuring your steps, create a serving ritual and how to fix your toss.
In this simple guide, I teach you how to improve your jump float serve in volleyball by measuring your steps, creating a serving ritual, and perfecting your toss.
When done correctly, the jump float serve in volleyball is difficult for opponents to return.
The jump float serve in volleyball is a powerful way you can score an ace, a direct point by yourself, without the help of any other teammate with a serve that floats, dips and bobs after you contact it in the air as it makes its way over the net making it difficult to pass by the opposing team.
How valuable does this make you to your team?
When done correctly the jump float serve is difficult for them to return.
I will guide you through the steps needed to develop a powerful jump floater from
setting up in the right position,
to measuring your steps,
to accelerating your approach from slow to fast
to developing a consistent toss
to mastering the perfect swing.
Creating a Serving Ritual for Your Jump Float Serve in Volleyball
Before starting your jump float serve, most players create a serving ritual before they do each serve.
A serving ritual is a way to "get settled" and get focused on the serve you're about to do next.
Measuring Your Steps for the Jump Float Serve in Volleyball
One of the most common rituals players do is once they have the ball and go back to do a jump float serve in volleyball, is they measure their steps.
They pause and stand with their heels on the service line with their back to the net before walking back to where they want to begin their serve, while taking a very precise number of steps, the same number of steps they plan to use during their serving approach.
Players who normally take a three-step approach when they serve the ball, will take three steps away from the service line and players who use a four step approach take four large steps from the end line before turning around to face the net.
Doing this ritual does two things.
It helps players measure out the correct steps and the distance each step is going to be so they get set up before the serve in the correct distance they need to be from the service line so they don't step on the line before they launch themselves in the air to jump.
One of the serving rules states that if a server steps on the service line while serving, then that's a point and a side out for the other team. So servers with this ritual are getting themselves in the right spot before they serve.
Once you've turned around to face the net, you'll be standing facing the net about four steps away from the service line with your non-dominant foot slightly forward slightly in front of the foot you're going to use to take your first step in your serving approach.
So if you're a right hander then the weight of your body should be on your left foot which should be slightly in front of the right. The opposite for a left hander.
Jump Float Serve in Volleyball: How do you aim a volleyball serve?
Face your target
When you are preparing to jump float serve in volleyball the float serve, you want to show everybody in the gym where you intend to serve the ball.
Pointing your body in one direction and then serving to another area on the court rarely “fakes out” the players in serve receive.
You will always be off-balance, and this will increase your chances of
serving out
making a bad contact with the ball or
into the net
Be sure that your
lower body---hips and waist along with your
upper body---chest, shoulders and arms
are all facing your intended target once
you've started and once
you've finished
your serving action.
Let that passer know that you are serving them.
Trust me, let that passer think about what kinds of trouble your serve is about to cause them.
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