Modern trends in serving and setting skills in elite volleyball

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Teoriya i praktika fizicheskoy kultury №3 2019

Yu.Yu. Kareva1
PhD, Associate Professor I.V. Nikolaeva1
PhD, Associate Professor Yu.V. Shikhovtsov1
Yu.V. Kudinova1
PhD, Associate Professor L.A. Ivanova1
1Samara State University of Economics, Samara

The development of men's volleyball in Russia is on the path of the purposeful increase in offensive serving power, as well as improving tactical actions and interactions in serve setting during competitive activity. The present article gives analysis of the elite volleyball players’ competitive performance data mined by educational surveys with video captures by computerized Data Volley–2007 system. Subject to analysis were 52 matches (2016-2018) of Nova Volleyball Club (Samara Oblast) playing in the Russian Super League Championship.
The study data covered the key qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the modern serving and setting skills. It was found that the top volleyball masters give preference to a jump power serves followed by a float serve; power serve setting is commonly less successful than float serve setting; and most of the serves come from the right third of the serve zone; with the study data providing a the means to analyze the key progress trends in the modern volleyball.
The study data shows that setting is efficient and accurate enough when the setter watches closely the serving opponent to guess the serve style and target by the first signs. Elite training systems must make due emphasis on the technical/ tactical skill training to facilitate serve anticipation skills in setters for efficient counteractions.

Keywords: volleyball, elite athletes, competitive performance, serving, setting.

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