 Hey, what's up you guys welcome back to my channel. My name is coach Coco and I love volleyball so much so my channels But with tips tricks hacks and anything you can ever need to know about volleyball So one of the things that I've noticed both coaching and online is we never really talk about the hand placement when we're overhand serving When we're overhand serving It's such a complex movement that involves so many parts of your body that we want to make sure that we're doing it As completely as we can one of the things we're going to talk about today is our hand placement when we're overhand serving Some mistakes to avoid and to make sure that we get the most complete hand placement when serving. All right, let's get right into it Teaching overhand serving for a very long time and one of the things that I really like talking about is the hand placement I've often seen players who have a closed hand or a crap claw I've seen players who hand their hands a little bit arched over the ball I've seen players who try to do that knuckle. That's very dangerous that we don't want to talk about But we want to talk about the five points of contact On a volleyball, a volleyball is a curved surface. That means that it does have a curve to it We do not want to overhand serve by having our hand flat to the ball This right here is what we do when we're trying to float serve If you were trying to do a typical standard serve We want to make sure that we are having a ball shaped hand. A ball shaped hand means I can just have the ball out I place my hand on the ball and however my hand relaxed lies on the ball This is a ball shaped hand. When we are contacting our hand on the ball when we're serving This ball shaped hand ensures that all of our fingers are on the ball appropriately That means that I have five points of contact. I have one two three four five all five and my palm A lot of players think that when they're contacting the ball when serving, they're just using their palm here No, you need all your fingers. We want the ball to soar over the net We don't want it to be something that just glides slowly over the net So that five points of contact is very important So let's talk about what happens if you're trying to serve the ball and it's going over like a rainbow and it just drops Or it's very short of the net and it's almost there, but it doesn't go over Let's talk about it volleyball has a little bit of math involved and it might be surprising But it does we want to think about the angle when we think about angles and math We can see the angle on the calculator or the angle on the paper when you're drawing something But let's talk about the angle and volleyball if I were to stand right here at five ten And this is a co-ed net if I were to stand right here And I'm contacting the ball and we know we want to serve at the highest point and I contact the ball right here It's gonna go into the net If I contact the ball in the middle of the ball It's going to go into the net in order for it to go over the net if I'm closer to the net I have to hit it a little bit underneath the ball so it will go up and over Typically when we're overhand serving from the serving line players will contact the ball underneath the ball And then they'll see that rainbow ask serve that goes and it falls real short of the net Something to note the closer you are to the net the more underneath you need to hit the ball if you're not jumping I'm not jumping here in order for me to get it over I have to head a little bit further away you are from the net The more in the middle of the ball you're gonna hit so that way it can get enough speed and distance to go over the net So let's go to the serving line So what I want to make sure that I'm doing is that I'm further back that means that when I'm contacting the ball I need to contact the ball towards the middle of the ball So that way when I use all of my range of motion all of my serving form I hit it and it will go and soar over if I contact the ball underneath the ball It's gonna fly up into the air and drop down to the middle. That's not something we want to happen So I'm gonna contact in the middle We've talked about previously in previous videos contacting the ball the highest point that means that when you're doing your serving form You're meeting the ball at the highest point We're here here now if I go here and I contact the ball here. Where's it going? Straight up into the end. It's gonna drop straight back down. That's not what we want here If I contact it here full ball shaped hand then I can ensure that it's going to go over So before we start this let's do the drill Hitting the ball at the highest point. So you're just gonna get into your serving form stand And wait catch it. Let's do it five times four And five now I'm gonna try to hit the ball with five points of contact Towards the center of the ball using full range of motion on my shoulder Stepping into my serve to get it over starting here and then went over. Whoo. Let's try it again Shoulder open I'm staggered stance hips are out. I'm looking forward high point of contact Nice job. Now. Let's see what happens if this is your serve. We can talk about why it's happening ball And it's looking like this That's underneath the ball and you're serving the ball that's going down like into the net That's on top of the ball. So with this video I really hope that you do something that you can work on in your spare time so that way you can learn how Contact the ball appropriately and get the right point of contact with everything I hope that you like this video. Please like comment subscribe and I'll see you guys next time