What is the fastest serve in volleyball?

Leon's record-breaking performance in serving included the fastest VNL serve, clocked at 135.6 kilometres per hour. The previous VNL record was held by Italy's Ivan Zaytsev at 134 km/h from 2018.
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What is the hardest serve in volleyball?

Float serve is probably the most dangerous serve and very difficult to pass.
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What is the best volleyball serve?

To answer to the question the best serve worldwide is the jump top spin because it reaches high speeds that are very difficult to pass, but the fast jump floater has proven to be effective and also very consistent.
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What is the easiest serve in volleyball?

An underhand serve is usually the easiest to learn. Using this serve, beginning players often have better control over where the ball will land and thus are able to target specific areas of the court. Additionally, an underhand is typically easier to return as well.
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How fast is the average volleyball serve?

The results show: 1) for males, the average serve speed peak was 98.3 ± 4.3 km·h-1, and the serve speed peak was 114.0 km·h-1; and 2) for females, the average serve speed peak found was 80.0 ± 2.7 km·h-1 and the serve speed peak was 86.5 km·h-1.
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How fast is Olympic volleyball serve?

Olympic Games

The average speed of an Olympic volleyball spike from men is roughly 70 to 80 mph.
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What's the fastest serve in women's volleyball?

Top 5 fastests spikes in women's volleyball:
  • Tijana Bošković (Serbia) – 110.3 km/h (vs Turkey, 2021)
  • Kiera Van Ryk (Canada) – 108.1 km/h (vs. USA, 2021)
  • Tijana Bošković (Serbia) – 107.5 km/h (vs Russia, 2021)
  • Tandara Caixeta (Brazil) – 106.9 km/h (vs China, 2018)
  • Tandara Caixeta (Brazil) – 106 km/h (vs Thailand, 2021)
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Why is the Libero not allowed to serve?

The libero replacement zone is the area between the 10-foot line and the end line. So the libero is allowed to serve for any person they substitute for, but once they serve in that one spot, that's the only position in the rotation they can serve in for the remainder of the game.
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What are the 3 types of serves in volleyball?

For competitive volleyball, there are three main types of overhand serves: the floater, the topspin, and the jump serve. Try them all to find out which one suits you best, but keep in mind that you will want to be somewhat proficient in all three.
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Can you kick serve in volleyball?

It is illegal to kick serve in volleyball no matter what league you play in. The reason is not in the rules for playing the ball, it's in the serving rules. When serving, you have to make contact with a single hand. That specifically eliminates every other body part from the serve.
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Are float serves good?

A good float serve or floater is a necessary tool to have in your arsenal. If you are playing in a drafty gym, a float serve can be a killer because it has no spin. The air catches it and can move it in many directions as it crosses over to your opponent's side of the net.
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What is Hybrid serve?

The hybrid serve is a technique in which the player elicits to do a certain type of service, such as topspin, and during the ongoing movement, usually while airborne, the server changes the strike technique finishing the movement, delivering a different serve, like the jump floater.
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Who is the world best volleyball player?

These are the greatest volleyball players of all time.
  • 23. Logan Tom.
  • Sheilla Castro. ...
  • Kim Yeon-Koung. ...
  • Saeid Marouf. ...
  • Sergio Santos. ...
  • Wallace de Souza. ...
  • Yekaterina Gamova. Yekaterina Gamova won two silver medals at the Olympics. ...
  • Laura Ludwig. Germany's Laura Ludwig at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ...
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What is the longest volleyball game ever?

The Guinness World Record for volleyball lasted 85 hours and took place in the Netherlands in December 2011. The members of the SVU Volleybal were the ones who played the longest marathon. It involved a total of 63 matches which consisted of 338 sets as well as a total of 14,635 points total.
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Who serves first in volleyball?

Regardless of which team serves first, when your team begins to serve, the person in the back right corner will be the first one to serve for your team. When your team serves and wins the point, the same player will keep serving.
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What are the 6 serves in volleyball?

They are the underhand, overhand, float, topspin, and jump serves. Here is a look at these five serves you must know and teach.
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How do you float a serve?

How to do a float serve
  1. Stand in the stride position, with one foot slightly in front of the other, facing the net. ...
  2. Hold the ball in front of you in your non-hitting hand, arm fully extended. ...
  3. Toss the ball about two feet in the air, then smack it sharply with your hitting hand as if it's hot to touch.
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How many volleyball serves are there?

There are four types of serves in volleyball varsity players learn. Beginners learn the underhand serve first, then the overhand serve, then topspin and jump serve.
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What is a bolero in volleyball?

September 13, 2019. A libero (LEE'-beh-ro) in indoor volleyball is a back-row defensive specialist. Since they only play in the back row, those players are often shorter than the front-row blockers and hitters but have impeccable ball-control skills. The position was created to promote ball-control.
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How tall should a libero be?

Libero/Defensive Specialist

Tier one players must be at least 5 feet tall. The range tier 1 is 5 feet, 5 inches to 6 feet for upper levels and 5 feet, 5 inches to 5 feet, 10 inches for mid-lower levels.
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Why is a volleyball jersey white?

The libero wears a different color jersey than the rest of the team because she can enter and leave the lineup freely, without counting against the team's 15 allotted substitutions per set.
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What is the fastest jump serve?

TOP 5 FASTEST SERVES EVER IN MEN'S PROFESSIONAL VOLLEYBALL:
  • 1) 134 km/h – Ivan Zaytsev (ITA, Italy National Team)
  • 2) 132 km/h – Matey Kaziyski (BUL, Trentino /ITA)
  • 3) 128km/h – Georg Grozer (GER, Resovia /POL)
  • 4) 127km/h – Cristian Savani (ITA, Italy National Team)
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How fast is mens volleyball serve?

The serve´s characteristics in men´s volleyball are: the standing serve (7.1% of serves) is carried out with a range of 42.0 – 55.0 km/h, the jump float serve (40.7% of serves) is carried out with a range of 40.0 – 75.0 km/h, and the power jump serve (52.2% of serves) is carried out with a range of 73.0 – 104.0 km/h.
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Who has the fastest jump serve?

Las Vegas, USA, October 20, 2018 – About three months ago, Paolo Nicolai shocked the beach volleyball world when he recorded the fastest serve ever registered in the sport, hitting the ball at an impressive 119 km/h during the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Tour Gstaad Major.
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