Throw the ball in the air and bend your legs, with arms out in front. Bump the ball up using mainly leg movement not arm swing.
Keep it going, changing which arm you bump the ball with (try and use good rhythm and mainly legs).
When your hitter gets stuffed, five teammates standing and watching is how you lose the point. Good attack coverage turns a blocked ball into a second swing.
Coaches spend hours correcting arms in serve receive when the real fault is almost always the feet. Fix the movement and the platform fixes itself.
Most teams win the dig and then hand the point straight back with a slow, predictable transition swing. The best 2026 sides treat the moment after the dig as their sharpest scoring chance, feeding the middle in transition and running first-tempo attacks off a defensive ball.