This study by Ciuffarella Andrea, Masedu Francesco, Russo Luca and De Angelis Marco from the Human Movement and Sport Science Faculty, University of L’Aquila – Italy, used Dartfish Tagging to produce a statistical breakdown of the effectiveness of serve type in volleyball. The use of Tagging enables greater accuracy than transitional statistical notation methods and makes it simple to mark the specific serve criteria being observed. Introduction In volleyball it is possible to discriminate three different styles of serving: Jump serve (JS), Float Jump serve (FJS) and Float Serve (FS). A recent study (1) compared these three styles in terms of effectiveness and speed, but the analyzed sample was very small (4 teams for an amount of only 377 serves from 4 games). The aim of this study was to better investigate the effectiveness of serving modalities in a larger sample of serves. Methods Fourteen teams of the Italian male…
