Volleyball spiking outdoors, whether in beach volleyball or sand volleyball, is a whole different ballgame in relation to indoor volleyball. In order to maximize your spiking potential and gain solid technique that will last you a long time and not wear out your arm, you have to utilize the right kind of arm swing.
Hi everybody, my name is Steve Anderson and I’m an Olympic gold medal winning volleyball coach for the women’s Australian Olympic volleyball team. I coached the team to gold medal victory in Sydney Australia in 2000, and I also lead them to a bronze medal win in 1996 in Atlanta. I developed this particular volleyball spiking arm swing specifically for beach volleyball players who have issues with shoulder pain like myself. Today I’m gonna share it with you.
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Volleyball Spiking as a Coach
When coaching beach volleyball and molding a player’s arm swing you always want to focus on fixing what is broke and leaving the rest alone, so I like to use a coaching technique that I call tracking.
Have your player demonstrate their arm swing to you in slow motion, and if it looks like they are exercising the right spiking technique then leave ‘em alone. However, if you see flaws in their movement, like swinging out too far to the side, then it’s time to develop a track for them to follow so they can have the same corrected movement each time they swing for the ball.
Volleyball Spiking Track
- Start the track off by positioning your player in the right loaded position, bring their arm up so their elbow is in front of their shoulder, this will give them great leverage for a powerful volleyball hitting technique.
- Once they are comfortable in the loaded position, rotate their body with the arm in the right position so they get comfortable utilizing their whole body in the swing, the idea here is to get rid of all the wasted energy that can be thrown away with an improper arm swing.
- The next step in the track is stretching out your player’s body to incorporate their forward movement and power from the loaded position into the swing. Your goal here is to make the arm swing so short that the ball doesn’t have a chance to move around in the wind.
- The final motion in the swing is where you actually make contact with the ball. As soon as your hand drops and you come in for the spike of the volleyball, utilize a hammer swinging motion. You don’t want to be pulling down. The idea is to use all that built up torque that you created to hit the volleyball with as little wasted energy as possible in one smooth motion that isn’t going to jerk your arm around.
The whole idea behind tracking when coaching volleyball spiking technique is to show your player the right motion to use when hitting a volleyball. That way they are able to learn the right technique themselves with less wasted effort on both of your parts.
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