Thursday, July 9, 2009

Jump into Some Volleyball Tips

By Bradley Dibbs

Do you play volleyball and want to be better? Well the first part of knowing how to play well is understanding the rules.

The best thing for any indoor player to do is to practice by playing beach volleyball. Have you ever wondered why California produces the best indoor players in America? It's because they practice in the sand all day long. 2 on 2 makes you develop every part of your game and will help you a ton.

While it's good for indoor players to practice on the sand the same does not hold true for beach volleyball players to practice on a hard court. The whole point is to increase your speed by training in sand.

If you can move fast in sand you will do great on a hard court because it doesn't shift around like sand. Also jumping is a thousand times harder in sand.

Jumping out of sand will be hard at first but your legs will get use to it and you will start jumping higher. Then when you go back to indoor you will be jumping a few inches higher with the greatest of ease because you will be use to jumping out of sand.

There is a completely different form used when jumping out of sand. You can't broad jump like you do indoors and you will jump up instead of up and forward.

Once you learn to practice all parts of your game you will notice that windows of opportunities will open up to you. You may start playing a completely different position.

Plyometrics are a great way to improve your jumping ability in volleyball. You simply need to practice jumping just as you would any other part of your game to get better at it. Training with the right training programs to jump higher will add inches to your vertical.

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