- Posture
- Right-handed servers = left foot slightly in front of the right
- Left-handed servers = right foot slightly in front of left
- Toes pointed towards the target
- Toss
- Able to toss ball consistently in front of your hitting shoulder
- Arm Swing
- Start with a high hand and elbow back by ear
- Hand Contact
- Contact the ball with the palm of the hand so there is a pop on the ball to create the float serve. There is good contact with the palm if there is a pop on the ball. If it is only the heel of the hand that contacts the ball, there is a thud sound, and if towards the fingers it sounds like a slap.
- Weight Transfer
- Understand how to take one step and rotate your hip through the ball to generate speed and power
- Mentality
- No back-to-back errors as a team or individual
- Make the opponent pass after timeout (don’t miss a serve after a timeout)
- Serve the sub
- Stay away from libero
- Deep court serves
- Result
- Able to serve all 6 zones (image)
- Able to serve below a serving cord (between the top of the antenna and the top of the net tape
- Serve ball at 30mph. The ball begins to move/float at 28 mph
- Introduce the jump float serve. It may not be used in competition, but it needs to be ready for refinement by 13U