Take your opponent our of their rhythm, out of their serve receive and out of their offense

As an 11-time State Champion High School Coach Tom Keating has gained the respect and admiration of his peers. He is one of the best High School volleyball coaches in the nation.

Coach Keating shares his philosophy on how to disrupt your opponent and apply pressure with good serve and serve receive techniques. Keating makes these techniques as simple as possible while eliminating unnecessary movement. Starting with basic concepts and progressing into the specific application techniques, these skills and concepts are easily transferable to a variety of skill levels.

You will see high school level athletes demonstrate the floater, jump floater, and top spin serve. The modeling of these serves takes abstract concepts and makes them concrete and easy to understand. The demonstrators provide a full speed demonstration of each serve, followed by Keating's step-by-step build up of the skill, followed by more full speed demonstrations.

Keating then walks you through zone serving and how to use it to disrupt your opponent's offense. Several serving drills are included to fine tune accuracy while maximizing practice reps.

In the second half of the video, Keating breaks down the important elements of serve receive passing. Demonstrators model the proper body positioning starting with the feet and working up to the head. Once body position is established, he demonstrates proper footwork and movement patterns. The drills used in this section focus on training the early stages of passing and end with more complex movement patterns.

This is a good training video for coaches at any level - junior high, high school and club. At the beginning of each segment, Coach Keating reviews the fundamentals of each technique and follows up with a series of drills created to ingrain the desired mechanics. You will discover critical elements that need to be incorporated and rehearsed during practice in order to have success. Cue words are provided to enable you to communicate more accurately with your athletes in effort to correct unwanted behavior and reinforce proper technique.

The skills taught in this video will give your players and your team a competitive edge in the serve and serve receive phases of the game.

2012.

Out of necessity with a weak serving team, long time Nebraska high school coach Gwen Egbert was motivated to break down the serve into a simple progression. In this 2010 AVCA Convention video, she shares the progression she has used with great success.

Coach Egbert is very innovative in creating skills that help the athlete groove a feel for the proper technique. Her methods control the variables for the player in a way that prevents the most common serving technical errors and accentuates the techniques necessary for serving success.

She details how to teach the float, the jump float and the jump spin serves. After sharing the skill set of each of these serves, Egbert details how she presents and identifies serving zones to her players.

Watch as Egbert demonstrates a series of full serving drills and competitive serving games, all of which include a coaching narrative from Egbert on what to look for in your players to improve their serving success.

Egbert is in the trenches of high school and club volleyball and completely in tune with the challenges of coaching younger players. This presentation offers an invaluable proven skill set that is sure to add success to your serving game!

61 minutes. 2011.

Learn how to send "Spell-Binding" serves to confuse your competitors!!

Coach Gimmillaro is most known for his ability to develop players. This DVD is dedicated to the development of young athletes. Whether you are a beginner or an elite volleyball enthusiast, the methods taught in these videos are the same techniques he uses at Long Beach State, which has developed six NCAA Player of the Year Award winners.

42 minutes. 2011.

Use these simple serving techniques to increase your ace-to-error percentage.

Todd Dagenais presents a user-friendly guide to assist your players and team in dominating the serve game.

PRE-SERVE ROUTINE
Dagenais reveals a five-step progression for teaching a player to develop a serving routine--an essential for a player's serving success.

SERVE MECHANICS
See clear, precise and easy to understand explanation of serve mechanics. Learn to position the feet, toss arm and hitting arm for solid contact with every toss. Discover the best way to toss the ball for accuracy and ball movement. Dagenais finishes the skill segment with proper ball contact strategies, including proper follow through technique to maximize power and speed.

FIVE TYPES OF SERVES
Dagenais demonstrates five types of serves that progress in difficulty from the most basic to the most advanced. As the serves progress in difficulty, they increase in power and ball movement as well. These serves include underhand, floater, standing top spin, jump (and jump float) and jump top spin. Included are benchmarks players and coaches can use to determine the best time to move up to a more difficult type of serve.

IN-GAME STRATEGIES
Learn eight rules to take advantage of your team's serving strengths and expose your opponent's serve-receive weakness.

Dagenais closes with seven fun and competitive serving games that train a player to develop accuracy before adding speed and power.

This comprehensive instruction is sure to give your program a competitive edge in the serving game!

2010.

Neil Mason feels that the jump serve offers the best opportunity to teach aggressive play and to help a player develop court and game sense. Mason begins this AVCA on-court convention DVD with drills for how to incorporate jump serving into a practice warm-up activity. He then demonstrates a technical progression for teaching and coaching the jump serve. Mason includes keys for teaching the toss, footwork and arm movement, as well as strategies for how to generate speed and power into the skill. Adding invaluable substance to the technical aspects, Mason shares ongoing tips for coaching the skill and how to hold players accountable for proper technique. Mason's instruction includes a high velocity jump serve and a jump float serve, with differing contact techniques for a variety of ball rotations. He also shows a series of serving strategies for game considerations and common fallacies when it comes to jump serving. Mason's jump serve DVD is perfect for players at any level who want serving reps with a purpose.

56 minutes. 2009.