"The authors found that for perfectly smooth spheres, the critical speed is around 25 meters per second, or about 56 miles per hour." Just don't anyone get hung up on that speed for sports balls in ...

FENNVILLE - Mackenzie McIlwain powered a serve over the net for an ace. Then another. Then another. Then the Fennville junior changed things up and tried her floating jump serve. It caught the Allegan ...

In the game of volleyball, serving is incredibly important. Every play begins as a serve, after all, and a well-executed serve has the ability to put pressure on the opposing team and set the pace of ...

As a former high level volleyball player from a time pre-dating these experiments, I knew about the float serve but had no idea why it happened nor how to do it consistently. The unstated conclusion ...