The most successful teams in the history of volleyball, have also performed the most audacious and tactically serving styles at world-class competitions. And the most successful teams have also demonstrated a history of the most effective range of serving repertoire (Da Matta, 2013). The evolution of serves across the history of volleyball has revealed a serve that no libero likes to face, the Jump Floater.
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Some expert passers call it the “dry leaf”, the “Sahara mirage” or “the ghost”. Others call it the “side stroboscopic dropping beast”, according to the metaphoric voices of elite players from Brazil. Passers are perfectly positioned to pass it and then…the ball dropped dead right in front of them. “Coach, the ball was right there in front of me, but went sideways and dropped,” is a frequent refrain. (Da Matta, 2004).
From an expertise analysis perspective, nothing that we see in volleyball is new. The jump serve and the jump floater has also been done before in some cold factory gym in Germany, on the exotic beaches of Samoa, or in the dirt courts in Africa. However, the perfection of this serve epitomizes the importance of diversity and how this variety of movement styles reflects in the many displays of approaches, tosses, and strikes.
The impact of jump floaters has been notable since the FIVB rule changes in 1998. Typically known as the Rally Scoring System rule, the changes in 1998 prohibited blocking the serve, allowed the let serve, allowed the multiple touch first rally contact, and attempted to determine the regulation of women’s competition gear. Even the marketing appeal of how women would be dressed indoors and outdoors depicted the success of this wave of successful rules. (Side note: Many feminists groups called the attempt to exploit the women’s body infamous, but the volleyball players, wiser, claimed that the sizes of some gear were old fashioned and added that the players should be the ones to decide that they should wear and how they would wear it.)
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