 Hey, what's up, you guys? Welcome back to my channel. My name is Coach Coco, and I love volleyball so much so. My channel's full of tech tricks, hacks, and anything you can ever need to know about volleyball. So we're talking about the ball-shaped hand today. You probably have heard your coach say, hit the ball with the ball-shaped hand. And a ball-shaped hand is a hand that is properly morphed around the ball with the fingers in palm connecting. We often hear this a lot when we're talking about serving or hitting. So it's important to note that the ball-shaped hand is something that is vital to volleyball. But first let's do a drill called palm bounce. What I want you to do is to get activating with those fingers is to bounce it down on the ground. I want you to get used to having your palm touch the ball so that way you get used to that sensation because sometimes we don't feel our whole full palm get on the ball. And once we do that, we want to get five points of contact, which is each one of your fingers. So we're going to put each of our fingers on the ball. And then when we lay our palm down, now we have what is called a ball-shaped hand. It is a lot easier said than done, but we want to make sure that when we're contacting the ball and either serves or when we're hitting the ball, we get the best direct contact we possibly can. We don't want to have our fingers so stiff so that way it can cause injury, but we want to make sure that when we are having a ball-shaped hand, it's relaxed, but it also is firm, not stiff, firm. Now, once you feel like you have a ball-shaped hand, the best thing to do is to bounce it over and over again until you can get some consistency. We want to work on that muscle memory of how our hand is shaped so that way you can kind of determine in your mind what feels good to you. And once you determine what feels good, you know how your ball-shaped hand should look for you. Once you start getting it into your mind and you start working on that muscle memory, then add in it into your serve. You need to practice contacting the ball at the highest point, but using all of your palm. This was just a really quick video to remind you how to make a ball-shaped hand. Please like, comment, subscribe, and I'll see you guys next time.