![]() It is important to ensure your hands remain relaxed and smooth throughout the setting motion. The reason for this is if you open your hands like french doors and the ball does not spin, it means the ball has left both hands at the same time and therefore you haven’t double touched the ball. Once the ball contacts your hands you want gently wrap your hands around the bottom and sides of the ball before extending your arms fully and pushing towards the target, as the ball leaves your hands you want to open them out like french doors. With your hands you want to form a separated triangle pattern with your thumbs and forefingers with your remaining fingers slightly spread, the aim of this form is to create a bowl/ dish like shape to cradle the ball before pushing it back away to the setting target. Your hands should be directly above your forehead, you know your hands are in the right place if you could miss the ball with your hands completely and head the ball using your forehead (like a soccer player). Your hands should be above your head with your arms slightly bent. Let us first focus on the positioning of your hands. ![]() Once I have covered the basics I will tangent off into the differences between the beach volleyball hand set and indoor handset. With that being said I will go over the basics of how to perform a handset and what is considered good form. Again depending on whether you are playing beach volleyball or indoor volleyball will dictate what is a legal handset and what is an illegal handset however the technique is very similar for both. Hand setting is one of the most technically difficult skills in volleyball that plays a major role in the sport in nearly every single match, point and rally. Number 1 tip to improve your setting right now!!. ![]()
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