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The way that you hit or spike a beach volleyball, it starts with your approach. If you're right
handed, you do a left-right-left approach.
Your first step guides you towards the ball, and then you plant and explode upwards with
your last two steps. As you're jumping, you bring your arms up, you have the guiding hand
in front, and you're hitting hand behind it. Your torso is slightly twisted.
You want to hit at the highest point of contact in front of you. If you stay behind the ball
instead of running underneath the ball, that allows you to see the court in front of you
and see the defense that you're trying to hit around.
There are different kinds of hits. You can have a full swing, you can poke the ball,
you can roll-shot the ball. You can hit anywhere from 50 to 100 percent speed.
The important part about hitting, though, is placing the ball where your opponent is
not. There are different areas that you can hit.
You can hit straight in front of you, facing the line, you can hit across your body, angled.
You can hit away from your body. You can hit short. You can hit deep. You can hit high,
and hit low. That's how you hit or spike in beach volleyball.