The Common Errors that Coaches Coach

and

Players Practice 

Overhead Passing, Defensive Position, Serving Errors

 - and Video #7

21.     When you pass a serve or a shot above your head with open hands (even if they are together) the ball sticks to the palm of your hand or it rolls off your hands – Stop it and do it Right!

    When you pass an un-driven ball (a hit that isn’t a hard driven spike) The ball MUST come off your hand cleanly / not stick or roll. I suggest that you learn to dig the ball over your head with closed hands – one hand in a fist and the other hand wrapped around the fist hand. – see the video that goes with this for a demonstration

22.     Your hands are not up (above your waist) you are not on the balls of your feet and your shoulders are hunched over when you are waiting to dig a ball during a game or when doing drills and or playing pepper – Stop it and do it Right! -

  Your starting position when digging is:

1. on the balls of your feet, 
2. in a semi squatting position 
3. with your hands about shoulder width apart and at chest level and 
4. your shoulders are back (you are NOT hunched over). 

23.     There is wasted motion/a big wind up and a high toss when doing a standing serve – Stop it and do it Right!

     Start the serving motion with the elbow of your hitting arm at the height of your ear and with your hand open. Toss the ball less than 3 feet /1 M above your shoulders. Use the twist in your hips and shoulders to generate the majority of the power in your serve. Make contact with the ball with an open hand. – see the video that goes with this for a demonstration

24.     You lean back when serving - (this is not tennis!), you have obvious changes in your body movement, and or you have “gimmick serves” for example you spin the ball off your left ear and then Karate Chop it into the wind while loudly grunting…;>) Stop it and do it Right!

     Develop a standing float serve that can land anywhere in the court that uses the same body motion; and if you want to develop a jump float and or a jump spike serve, do the same, don’t give away where your serve is going by dramatic changes in your serving motion.

25.     The ball spins off or slides off your hand or you barely make contact with the ball with your hand – this happens because your wind up and toss are too big and you take your eye off the ball - Stop it and do it Right!

     Pick an exact target where you want the ball to go and then focus only on the ball and literally watch your hand making contact with the ball.

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