Lately in practice I have been seeing a lot of weird things going on with my players. We are so close to the end of the season and some of them are really struggling with basic volleyball skills, especially spiking and serving (jump serving in particular).
It occurred to me as I was watching one of our best players, who had been jump serving very well all year, all of a sudden is just struggling to get the ball over the net on the serve. He literally is hitting the ball under the net on the serve. This is going for about a week at this point.
So What is the Issue?
I was about to walk over and have a brief discussion with him about what was happening but I was cut-off by another coach. No big deal. I was curious to what was going to be said. So I sat and watched the coach talk in length about hand contact and how you need to snap over the ball blah blah blah.…
