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  • When you're serving in beach volleyball, you want to face your body into the court. If

  • you're right-handed, you'll have your left foot slightly in front of your right foot.

  • Most right-handers tend to hold their ball in their left hand. You want to toss the ball

  • in front of you, in front of your right shoulder, like this. When you get ready to serve, you're

  • going to pull your right arm back, or your dominant hand, and you're going to toss the

  • ball up, and contact it with a strong surface. You want your wrist to be strong, and your

  • hand to be wide.

  • A very common serve is the float serve, and that means that you're trying to put a little

  • pop on the ball with your hand. The ball basically doesn't spin but it kind of moves, and it

  • will move in the wind, like this. Another kind of serve is a topspin serve, where you

  • actually put spin on the ball. The ball will rotate like this, and it tends to drop in

  • front of the passer.

  • When you do a topspin serve, you wrap your hand around the top of the ball, like this.

  • When you do a float serve, you keep your hand straight and flat, like this. In beach volleyball

  • your serve can touch the net as long as it goes over and in the court. And that's how

  • you serve a beach volleyball.

When you're serving in beach volleyball, you want to face your body into the court. If

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