Six Skills, Continued

I am NOT an expert on volleyball...in fact, outside of Melrose volleyball history over a decade, I'm still trying to understand the game.

But from an organizational standpoint, volleyball has three somewhat distinct phases:

Serving and receiving (exchanges)
Offense: setting and attacking (spiking, hitting)
Defense: blocking and digging

Naturally, as a team, you want to be as strong as possible in every area. The Internet may not always have much context, but it has absolutely phenomenal content.

With the long offseason, perhaps we can go on a meandering volleyball journey into the "six skills".

For the incurably scientific, the physics of volleyball serving and quantitative time impact discussed. Everybody hates a know-it-all, so please don't ask me to explain the physics. The simple answer is that a higher take-off (jump serve), flatter arc, and topspin all impact the 'hang time'.