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Post by 84olympicsviewer on Oct 15, 2012 14:54:25 GMT -5
From what I've experienced most let serves are taken with forearms anyway. Anybody seen different? I see a ton of them simply dropping on the court as an Ace........ If Let Serve's count, and all serves have to be taken off of a platform....then let serves = sideout to the receiving team, similar to the old platform reception days. And yes, you should be able to block a serve.
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luvb9
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Post by luvb9 on Oct 15, 2012 17:10:53 GMT -5
I am also concerned by the rule change in terms of 'deprogramming' the passers. Have you seen indoor players go play beach doubles? How many times are those players taking balls with their hands in receive, even when they know it is illegal? A lot! The same thing will happen due to the years of conditioning the players have received in taking those balls with their hands. Not to mention making hand digging legal means 1st contact decision making becomes even more difficult to deprogram.
Before this rule is in place, I really hope for the juniors game it is something that we do not introduce cold turkey. I think it will take any conditioned juniors players at least 2 years to be comfortable making the correct decision, let alone training them to be skilled enough to elevate their platforms to take the deep serve, and be able to get to short serves from 20-25 feet. The float serve will put a ton more stress on the less skilled platform passers, and that means coaches will encourage servers to float serve more.
As a coach, if I start seeing 60-70% of the servers floating, and I know I only have 2 passers that can legitimately handle that type of pressure, I start working on the 2 person serve receive pretty quickly.
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Post by justadad on Oct 15, 2012 18:44:33 GMT -5
Luvb9,
I would agree. I think the phasing in of the rule will be the most difficult for the older club players. Many of the younger players (12-15 yrs. old) I have coached in the past are not strong enough or have big enough hands to take a driven float with their hands consistently. However, once that hand strength is developed, I have made them move up in the court and make the float server try to serve over their heads.
With the likely lack of passing accuracy associated with the rule, I'm not real happy if I'm a middle....Of course, my Libero and DS love the new rule.
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Post by WI FIB on Oct 16, 2012 14:09:59 GMT -5
NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY THE RECEIVER COULD MANGLE A SERVE BUT THE SETTER WAS CALLED FOR ANY BALL ACTION. WHY IS ONE RESTRICTED AND THE OTHER ALLOWED? Because a mangle is normally a double contact, and the receiver is doubling a first ball, which is legal, while the setter is doubling the second ball, which is not.
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