Serving (The Ten Commandments of Serving)

Never Miss A Serve When:

1. Your Teammate Just Missed a Serve
2. You Just Came Out of a Time-Out
3. Your Opponent Just Missed a Serve
4. You Missed Your Last Serve
5. The Last Play Ended with a Questionable call


Serving Laws to Live By:

1. Serve the Weak Passer

If Someone Misses a Pass, Serve to them Again (and again, and again…)

2. Mistakes Breed More Mistakes

It Doesn’t matter what Mistake is Made, (Passing, Serving, Hitting, Blocking) it will Throw off their Game- Take Advantage of That

3. Serve the “Head-Case Power-Hitter”

It Doesn’t Matter if He Passes Most of them Perfectly, one missed pass can and will throw off the rest of his game.
It Becomes a very effective way to take him out of the game


4. Make Them Move

A lot of Passers are lazy, instead of moving they’ll reach instead of move
Making them move will really hurt a lazy teams’ Passing (and most teams are Lazy)
Moving a Front row passer around can really throw off their offense
NEVER SERVE STRAIGH TO A PERSON- make them move

5. Serve the Setter

Especially unexperienced setters, many times won’t know what to do
Many times the setter will take the pass, and this will throw off the teams play, and limit their options for a set
Even better than serving to where the setter is, is serving into the path that they’re running to
Even if the setter doesn’t pass the ball, some of the hardest passes are those close to the setter