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How to Successfuly Spike a Volleyball

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How to Spike Hard or Soft

Both the off-speed and hard-driven spikes differ in that you make contact the ball on the center back of the ball with the heel of your open hand. As you make contact with the ball roll your fingers over the top of the ball snapping your wrist. To make a off-speed spike, you contact will be a little higher on the ball and you need to control how hard you are hitting it and make sure to snap that wrist. You can choose to hit down or up and over a blocker. To make a hard-driven spike merely increase the intensity of your swing paying particular attention to increasing the force of your wrist snap and hitting up and over the ball.
Making Contact with the Ball
The biggest difference between big spike and a soft spike is how hard you hit it. The harder you hit it, the lower on the ball you want to be and always snap that wrist.
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