50-Play Friday Part 1

Lots of example clips for your players

I’ve done plenty of 5-Play Fridays here on SmarterVolley.

But let’s get the New Year started with a 50-Play “Friday”, shall we? I’m splitting this into 2 parts for email length considerations. Instead of 5 separate gifs, like I usually do, each part contains five 5-play clip montages.

These are all great clips to share with players. If a picture is worth 1000 words, a video montage clip will, at the very least, save you a lot of explanation time.

Dropping Serves

This is a skill a lot of young players, and even plenty of advanced players, don’t have. I really want players to have this in their toolbox and, in many cases, even rely on this as their primary serve. A lot of people like a, “serve deep to set up a short serve,” but I actually think a lot of times the other way around works even better. Check these out.

And if we’re going to look at droppers, we have to look at the deep serves which work so well when you get changing depths.

Deep Serves

Next are 3 digging montages. I think these are great clips for you to share with players you are coaching right now.

In all of these, I play the digging clip 3 times in a row, because the details can be hard to see the first time. I tell players, “the first time the clip plays, you can follow the ball, but the next two times, just keep your eyes on the digger the whole time.”