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how to add top spin on a ball

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Adding Top Spin To The Volleyball What is a Top spin  Top spin is when you hit the volleyball at the top most part of it so that it spins more towards the ground allowing the ball to drop faster and with more power.  when trying to add some top spin you want to hit the ball at the top of it while flicking your wrist to make the ball drop faster. you will also notice when spiking the ball the same mechanics come into play which could make transitioning serves very easily.  Pros The pros of a top spin ball is that you can add more force and you can place the ball where you want faster and maybe even score some easy points.  you have more creativity when you are hitting the ball for example you can curve the ball  or you can make it go straight down.  In the short in the hyperlink you can see that the server is hitting a top spin but he add a curve to his ball. You could do that with a float ball but a float is much easier to predict because you have more ti...

Float serve

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 Float serve  A float serve is one of the most popular and most used serves in the game of volleyball. A floater serve is a serve with no spin and can occasionally shake in the air. The reason the float serve is one of the most used serves in volleyball is because of the different versions you can mix it up with.  The one that is mostly used is a serve that shakes in the air but there is a version of the float serve that will randomly start to drop fast, there is even one the curves. The float serve that is going to be talked about in this blog is the simplest serve, the one with no spin.  Stance there are different stances to hit a float serve but the easiest is just a simple standing position . This stance takes less time to get comfortable because it's the second most stance used in the game of volleyball and it also puts less strain on your whole body but puts the most strain on your arms. Then there is the jump serve   where you hit the ball when you jump ...