What do you think about underhanded serves?

[VBLIStaff]

What do you think about underhanded serves?

[pdoug20]

I can't think of anyone who didn't underhand serve during gym class in grade school. Like many, I used it as a skyball playing outdoors. Now, as a coach, I use it only to simulate a freeball situation. There's many points you can argue with this question. Ultimately, you do what you have to do...

[ACC_Striker_45]

I'm very good with underhand serves but I do have an arsenal of other serving weapons. But its my most accurate.

[OmniSpiker]

Originally Posted by BHitterDPasser

Has anyone ever set a net up against a hill as sort of an automatic ball return?

Yes! It also meant a lot of hard running up and over the hill, or chase that ball down, down, down, way down the other side of the hill...LOL's

The good ol' underhand serve doesn't get the respect it deserves. Only because most people never improve upon it, when they've got a good overhand serve already. There's just as many neat trick's to underhand serving as there are to overhand serving. Really there are! Plus it's much easier to land your serve in the court.

[mycena]

I think underhand serves are great, when your shoulder is blown out and it really hurts to serve any other way especially! Oh yeah, and when you are playing in a tournament against a team of older women who just couldn't return 10 of your overhand serves in a row and your team is falling asleep and you even had an ace on a jump serve. LOL

[NewEnglandRT]

Originally Posted by mycena

I think underhand serves are great, when your shoulder is blown out and it really hurts to serve any other way especially! Oh yeah, and when you are playing in a tournament against a team of older women who just couldn't return 10 of your overhand serves in a row and your team is falling asleep and you even had an ace on a jump serve. LOL

Easy there volleysnob guy! Those poor bitties had no chance..... and you had to be mean and jump serve them! Where was that in the finals?

[volleyballstud]

I like to change things up. I'll serve hook once, slice the next, float down the line, then topspin. If I keep changing the serve up, then it's more difficult for the serve receivers to home in on a specific serve. Only time I'll underhand serve is outdoors in sand where the wind can play with it and the sun becomes a factor...

[mycena]

Originally Posted by NewEnglandRT

Easy there volleysnob guy! Those poor bitties had no chance..... and you had to be mean and jump serve them! Where was that in the finals?

Wow smack talk How can it be considered mean to jump serve them, when I practice like 1 jump serve a month probably and have never attempted one it competition. I honestly thought I was giving them a point. Those old ladies were ridiculously scrappy anyway. I'm praying I am half as mobile as they are at their age.

Oh yeah, as for finals, see the first part of my original comment. stupid shoulder. That OH stuff is hardon the shoulder. I better stick to middle where I don't know how to approach and don't swing as hard.

[revjim27]

Originally Posted by mycena

Wow smack talk How can it be considered mean to jump serve them, when I practice like 1 jump serve a month probably and have never attempted one it competition. I honestly thought I was giving them a point. Those old ladies were ridiculously scrappy anyway. I'm praying I am half as mobile as they are at their age.

Oh yeah, as for finals, see the first part of my original comment. stupid shoulder. That OH stuff is hardon the shoulder. I better stick to middle where I don't know how to approach and don't swing as hard.

Tough on the shoulder... Try swinging all day at OPP when your used to setting for the past ump-teen tournaments.

[NewEnglandRT]

Originally Posted by revjim27

Tough on the shoulder... Try swinging all day at OPP when your used to setting for the past ump-teen tournaments.

Try hitting outside all day when you've got a great setter and a middle who doesn't steal your sets!