The Serve Receive Triangle: A Simple System To Improve Passing

You need to see it 'cause me explaining it is, is okay, but you need to see itSo I'm just gonna paint the picture for you so typically in our game we have three passers right? Sometimes you may have four passers, but typically you have three passers and what I normally see and what I was-- what I did for years is when you're receiving a pass, when you're receiving a serve rather all three passers are, are almost on the same parallel.

Meaning they're almost right beside each other.

There's, there's no, uh, they're, they're not on different lines if you wanna call it that.

So they're all on the same parallel and the problem is that is not optimal.

Depending on where the server-- now if the server's coming straight out of six, you know, in the middle of the court they're serving, then yeah, then you're gonna set up in a line, and you're gonna play the ball.

But if the server is serving out of five or one, then that straight line doesn't make sense because now we have different lengths of where the ser-- where the ball can go.

So let's just paint the picture for you, so you understand this.

So the most commonplace you're gonna see people serve out of is position one, right? Right behind area one outside the end line.

That's the most commonplace you're gonna see someone serve out of.

Now, if you think about the passing setup here.

Now I want you to think about this.

Close your eyes or draw this out.

If you're driving, do not do, do not do either/or, just listen.

But if we're setting up a serve receive, okay? From the server to the passer in position five, okay? And then from the server to the passer in position one, I want you to draw a line.

So draw a line from the server to the passer in position five, so that's gonna be a straight line and then draw a line from the server in position one to the passer in position one as well, 'cause they're three passers.

You're gonna draw, it's gonna be like a diagonal line and then connect those two lines at the bottom.

So we have a line from the server to first passer, a line from the server to third passer, and then we're gonna have a line connecting all three passers to both of those lines, okay? And if you've done this, what you're gonna find is we've created a right angle triangle, okay? So think about a right angle triangle.

Think about a triangle with a right angle.

From the server to the player in position five, right, that's your right angle there.

And then from the server to the player in position one, it goes down, and we connect the two.

So we have a right angle triangle.

Now if you, if you, if you-- I'm gonna give you a little bit of a math lesson here in case you've forgot what a right triangle is or anything about a right triangle.

So with a right triangle, um, there are a couple side lengths that are very important to us, okay? The most important side length that we have to factor in here is called the hypotenuse.

Okay.

And what is the hypotenuse? The hypotenuse is the longest side of a right angle triangle.