To master your serve receive skills on the beach will take time,
finesse and a lot of practice. It will also take a lot of mental focus,
concentration and communication with your partner.
Here are two tips that you can add to your serve receive practice that will help you become a better sand volleyball player.
Pass The Ball Straight Ahead
Indoor volleyball players are trained to pass the ball from anywhere on the court, all the way to the traditional indoor setter target area. In beach volleyball, with only two players on the court, you want to have a consistent point of reference as to where the 'setter' area should be.
If whoever receives serve passes the ball straight ahead of them, keeping the ball four to five feet off the net, their partner will know where to go in order to set the ball. The passer doesn't have time to try and "find" their partner by moving the received serve all around the court, so that's why the best point of reference to establish is straight ahead.
By passing straight ahead, as a spiker I will already know where I need to begin my spike approach. I can approach straight ahead or I can take a few steps to my left and approach at a slight angle like I do indoors.
What I don't have to do is spend extra time, energy and steps by chasing my setter along the net to figure out where to get set up to make my approach. This is especially applicable if I get served deep in the court.
As a passer turned spiker I want to maintain as much control over the play as possible, so by passing straight ahead I eliminate any additional movement I would need to make to go chase the ball before spiking it over the net.
Players spend many hours of practice on this skill alone performing a lot of serve and serve receive repetitions which cement in each player's mind where they need to end up on the court and where the setter needs to be in relation to the passer.
Pass Low
If you don't usually serve receive using a low body position, now is the time to start. The wind can play a big part in where your pass ends up regardless of your intentions, so to counteract its effects as much as possible you want to pass the ball using a low body position. The farther you can let the ball fall before making contact with it, the more time you are giving yourself to react to any adjustments made by the wind.
Once you contact the ball, you want to deliver a relatively low but controlled pass to your target area. The higher you pass the ball, the more chance the wind has to take hold of it and move it around which then forces your partner to have to go chase the ball. So you want to "stay low to pass" and "pass low to control the ball."
Pass The Ball Straight Ahead
Indoor volleyball players are trained to pass the ball from anywhere on the court, all the way to the traditional indoor setter target area. In beach volleyball, with only two players on the court, you want to have a consistent point of reference as to where the 'setter' area should be.
If whoever receives serve passes the ball straight ahead of them, keeping the ball four to five feet off the net, their partner will know where to go in order to set the ball. The passer doesn't have time to try and "find" their partner by moving the received serve all around the court, so that's why the best point of reference to establish is straight ahead.
By passing straight ahead, as a spiker I will already know where I need to begin my spike approach. I can approach straight ahead or I can take a few steps to my left and approach at a slight angle like I do indoors.
What I don't have to do is spend extra time, energy and steps by chasing my setter along the net to figure out where to get set up to make my approach. This is especially applicable if I get served deep in the court.
As a passer turned spiker I want to maintain as much control over the play as possible, so by passing straight ahead I eliminate any additional movement I would need to make to go chase the ball before spiking it over the net.
Players spend many hours of practice on this skill alone performing a lot of serve and serve receive repetitions which cement in each player's mind where they need to end up on the court and where the setter needs to be in relation to the passer.
Pass Low
If you don't usually serve receive using a low body position, now is the time to start. The wind can play a big part in where your pass ends up regardless of your intentions, so to counteract its effects as much as possible you want to pass the ball using a low body position. The farther you can let the ball fall before making contact with it, the more time you are giving yourself to react to any adjustments made by the wind.
Once you contact the ball, you want to deliver a relatively low but controlled pass to your target area. The higher you pass the ball, the more chance the wind has to take hold of it and move it around which then forces your partner to have to go chase the ball. So you want to "stay low to pass" and "pass low to control the ball."
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