Floater and Spin serves Volleyball?

Question

i dont know what a spin serve is.

and can u please give me tips for each of them?
thanks in advance

Answer 1

The floater serve is hit with a flat hand and a firm wrist. It is still a sharp contact. You use limited follow through. Do not force your follow through to stop, but do not force it to go on either.
The topspin serve is done with a bigger swing and a cupped hand. You need to follow through. You need to aim higher and hit the ball harder since it will spin shorter than you think. The floater can be aimed just above the net. The topspin has to go much higher over the net.

If you hit the topspin REALLY hard, it is a good serve to have. If you do not serve a REALLY hard topspin, use the floater. A soft topspin is only effective against junior high players. Maybe. Once players get some experience, a soft topspin is predictable and easy to pass. A good floater is good at all levels.

Answer 2

Other answerers covered how, so here's what and why.

A floater is a serve with no spin. Like baseball's knuckleball pitch (which also has no spin), it moves erratically making it hard to track. This is especially true outdoors hitting into the wind, which is part of the reason beach volleyball players prefer the downwind side of the court.

Topspin causes the ball to drop. You can hit the ball much harder because the drop will bring it down before it goes out.

Other spins are less common. I've seen some sidespin serves which have a wicked curve, and some backspin serves, which don't seem to have any advantage (they might be accidental).

Answer 3

I have a great float serve. I hold the ball so that my hand will strike the air valve. Practice a relatively short toss that has absolutely no spill. Your hand should make contact at the the height of your toss rather than when the toss is on its way back down. This is to minimize toss spin. Make contact with the ball using a stiff palm. Your fingers should not touch the ball.

For a serve that spins you really need to be sure that you really watch the ball as your hand strikes it. This serve is very effective if you are trying to aim the ball into a specific zone, particularly in the back court. You can strike the top of the ball as it decends from your toss which will create top spin. This serve is really hard to return if hit hard. Striking the bottom portion of the ball will create back spin and you can aim for either side of the ball in order to create a clockwise or counter clockwise spin that will send the ball into the corners.

The most important thing is to practice these serves a lot. The floater is incredibly useful when trying to aim the ball into any of the six zones on the court.

Answer 4

I agree with gordonmorrison regarding how to contact the ball when serving floater and spin serves... just wanted to add some details about the effect of those serves.

You can serve spin serve with jump serve or no jump (which sometimes would be called "power serve"). The ball would go over the net with a quick top spin and a vertical curve that bring the ball to the floor very quickly, but predictable. To a receiver the spin ball looks like a flash, but all he needs to do is to beat the clock to the spot to make a good pass. The key to spin serve is control, power and speed. You use your "cupped" palm to make sure the ball goes where you want it to go, and your swing hard to put power and speed in the ball. It could hurt some inexperienced receivers and keep them at home for a week due to hard contact.

You can serve floater with jump or without jump. The ball would go over the net with different speed and tend to curve horizontally AND vertically. It is harder to predict when and where it is going to "land". To a receiver the floater looks more "shaky", waving left and right, or up and down. It could have a sudden drop as soon as it crosses the net, or could cruise all the way to the end line, all decided by the experience of the server and the contact. A floater could fly very quickly and be unpredictable. The key to a floater serve is to have a "flat palm" contacting the ball, and have a "stop" after contacting the ball. It could hurt a very experienced player by shaking his (and his team's) confidence if your floater hits his arm and gets deflected left and right, or even makes him miss the pass.

It is more important to mix your spin serve and floater serve if you can start with the same stance, same swing of your arm, and same contact-sound... so that it would be very hard for your opponent to tell any difference before they see the ball in their face, sometimes even after the pass contact.

Answer 5

A spin serve is when a ball is served with top spin. A floater is a ball that travels with no spin, and can sometimes curve. I always serve with top spin. When you hit the ball, you need to hit a little above the center of the ball and follow through. to make the ball float, you hit a little bit below the center of the ball and dont folow through.

Answer 6

The key is in the amount of pressure you apply with the hand slap. Toss the ball up as normal. If you naturally jump serve, you can still do a floater serve. What changes is the position of your hitting arm (the degree to which it is ******) and the force with which you hit (slap) the ball. Restrict your follow through so that it's just a smack on the ball not followed by the force of your arm.

Answer 7

hey
for a great float sreve you need to hit the ball with a open hand. one way to get a really good serve out of a float is be taking the ball before the serve and finding the plug where the air goes in.... then you put that facing you directly. all you have to do is hit the ball hard on the plug and it will be a good float serve and it will waver a bigt in the air.
for top spin all you have to do is follow through and use your wrist.

Answer 8

ok well i think a spinner serve is when it spins. Like a football when u through a football u have the spiral on it.....i think that is wht it is like! A floater is when it floats and sometimes it can curve!
personally i have no idea how to do either one.....they either coincidently happen or they dont....most of the time they dont! sorry couldn't help more!

Answer 9

kay the floater isn't that complicated once you get it.

you almost alwayshave to get a good toss.

and unsted of slapping the ball up.

just pop it real quick kinda snap your wrist and send it straight over the net.

Answer 10

hit the ball with the palm of your hand to get it to float