Underhand serving. Illegal serving?

Two things will make your serve illegal (and it doesn't sound like you are doing either of these)...

First you can't hide the ball during the serve. It can't be behind you prior to your serving motion.

Secondly, the ball has to leave your hand before you strike it with the other. In other words, you can't use one hand as a tee for the ball and hit it with the other.

Underhand Serve In Volleyball

I have been playing volleyball for 3 years and i have never heard that underhand serving is illegal. I play on Varsity and i have played against teams that serve underhand. The reason most people serve overhand is because they tend to be more powerful and harder to dig up, but some girls can underhand serve better- and theres nothing wrong with that. But before you start freaking out about this, talk to your coach, because if anyone, they should know. The girl who told you that its illegal might not have her facts straight. So go talk to your coach and go from there, but as far as I know, underhand serving is legal. Good Luck :)

Unless your playing sand volleyball and the sun is out, you do not want to serve underhand. You have been playing for a number of years, you should be serving over hand. In high school, most coaches do not let their players serve underhand, and defiantly not in a game. You need you hand open when you serve over hand, but it should be closed when serving underhand. It could be illegal, I can not tell by the way you are describing it. Your coach may be thinking that since you have to hit it over hand with an open fist, that you need to do the same underhand, which is not correct.

There is nothing illegal about it, but everything you can do with an underhand serve, you can do better with an overhand serve. In high level play you will never, ever see someone serve underhand.

The only thing that you can not do on an underhand serve is hit the ball directly out of your hand. Like a tee in golf or in the tee used in tee ball. The referee must see separation between the hand holding the ball and the ball at the moment of contact. You must toss or release the ball for any serve.

I am not saying that you must toss the ball high to do your underhand serve. You just have to move your hand holding the ball slightly before serving the ball.

They way we ruled it was if you weren't strong enough to serve overhand, you had the option to serve underhand. There were regulations on that too. You had to keep it above your waist and not toe the line.

Your serves sound fine to me.

i'm fairly sure your underhand serve is 100% legal

perhaps the other player is an overhand server?

if you served like that in a game

and the ref didn't call you on it

your fine

well,

it is now illegal if you serve it without throwing it up before you hit it

like, it cant be sitting on your hand when you serve it (this new way looks so stupid because people tend to look spastic when they do it lol)

this was new last year so maybe thats what she means that your serve is illegal

your best bet is to learn overhand serving, it will help you in the future

:)

I am pretty sure that underhand serving the way you are describing it is legal. Make sure to hold the ball above your waist, though.