The Importance Of Learning How To Serve Overhands

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Something that was difficult for me to do was learn how to serve overhand. I had to learn it for the school volleyball team. It took me a REALLY long time to learn how to do it.

First of all, I had almost nowhere to practice it except for at games. We didn't really practice it at the Boys and Girls Club, which is where I first started. We were just working on passing and setting.

Then, when I was trying out for the school team in the summer, we were going over overhand serves and I couldn't get any of my serves over. I could get all of my underhand serves over, but all of my overhand serves would hit the net. I kept on trying the exact same thing, just with little differences, but I couldn't get any of them over.

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