Sports Attack Attack Volleyball Serving Machine
The platform features a 16-gauge diamond plate with a non-slip surface, ensuring sure-footing and safety during use. The frame of the Attack platform is not just made of powder-coated, rust-resistant steel tubing but also designed for extreme durability, ensuring long-term use. The machine's extra-wide base guarantees absolute stability. As the throwing head is raised, it moves towards the center of gravity, further enhancing stability. Two powerful variable-speed motors drive the indestructible 4″ wide ball-throwing wheels, allowing for rapid recovery and quick repetition without waiting for an air-powered launch system to reset.
Features
- Precise Repetition Training: The Attack is designed for the men's game, delivering thousands of reps daily for serve receiving, digging, and spiking. Its two extra-wide throwing wheels ensure accuracy and repeatability in every drill, eliminating time-wasting errant hits.
- Serving: The Attack can throw sharp top spins and breaking floaters to simulate match situations. It can be easily rolled along the serving baseline to change the angle of the serves. Designed for the speed and height of the men's game, it provides a realistic serve release point and can deliver a jump serve at international level speeds, up to 80 MPH. The locating pins on the shaft allow instant positioning of the throwing head to the men's serving height.
- Spiking: The Attack delivers the ball at realistic angles from over the net at top speeds, making actual game conditions a part of every digging drill.
- Setting: The Attack provides rapid reps at varying intervals, meeting the requirements of all setting drills. It offers accurate and consistent soft sets with no spin at any angle and height. This machine can release the ball from a realistic setting height, not from floor level like some competitors. The locating pins on the shaft allow instant positioning of the throwing head to the setting position.
- Ball Wear: The two 4″ wide, soft white polyurethane ball gripping surfaces and the contoured shape of the throwing wheels uniformly distribute contact forces, minimizing high-wear points and reducing ball wear.
- Horizontal Movement: The coach can direct ball delivery in any direction, working straight on, in the seams, or to an individual's weak side, extending any player's range.
- Vertical Movement: Combined with horizontal movement, the coach can instantly throw the ball to any point on the court, creating game situations and challenging players to perform in increasingly difficult circumstances.
- Portability: Locking casters provide instant mobility on the court and stability during use.
- Storage: The Attack fits through any standard door for safe storage. The throwing head can be removed, allowing frame storage in an open gym. A separately available machine cover protects and secures the machine during storage.
- Ease of Operation: The Attack can be safely operated by any assistant coach, player, student, or parent. This allows the coach to be with the receiving players to teach proper mechanics effectively without yelling across the court. It also enables the coach to improve standard drills and create new machine drills for every game phase.
- Thousands of college, high school, club, and international men's teams rely on the Attack machine for daily practice of jump serve receiving, digging, and spiking.
Sports Attack Attack Volleyball Specifications
- Release Point Range: 6′ to 9′ 3″
- New Serving Speeds: 80 MPH
- Spiking: Over Men’s and Women’s net
- Setting: Yes
- Spin: All serves (including breaking sidespin serves), spikes, and sets
- Location Control: Instant
- Portability: Fits through commercial doorway and into any standard size SUV or pickup
- Electrical Requirements: 110V and 220/240V also available
- New Throwing Wheel Size: 10″ diameter, 4″ wide
- Dimensions: 24″ W at widest point, 83″-124″ tall (depending on head position), 50″ deep with or 45'' without throwing head
- Platform Height: 36''
FUNCTIONS | WHEEL-PROPELLED MACHINES | AIR-PROPELLED MACHINES |
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Machine Performance | Throwing head pivots easily delivering ball to any location on the court. Spin, speed and tempo can be adjusted instantly between throws. | More difficult to place ball, must move the entire machine to introduce variation. Air propelled arm will not impart a spin on ball. |
Release Point | Realistic – elevates from 5′ to well above men’s net, over 9′ 3″. | Pivots up to only 6′ (well below both men’s and women’s net height). |
Speed | Sets to 80 MPH jump serves & everything in between. (Higher release point enables top speeds as ball trajectory does not have to arc to clear net height.) | Sets, tosses and claims “hard” spikes and serves, but no actual speed is stated. (Lower release point requires ball to arc in order to clear net height.) |
Durability | Few moving parts, heavy duty welded powder-coated steel frame. | Complicated air pressure system installed in metal frame encapsulated in a plastic shell. |
Feeding and Tempo | Coach can control tempo by feeding continuously or delays. No recovery time is ever needed. The speed, angle and spin are instantly controlled by the coach with each serve, set or spike. | Air-propelled machine can be set to toss up to 1100 balls per hour (one ball every 3.28 seconds). However, recovery time is necessary after rapid fire of 8–10 balls. |
Ball Use and Wear | New design includes specialized throwing wheels that are shaped to grip the ball with even pressure across a wide 4″ span to increase velocity and minimize ball wear. | No specific ball required. |
Digging | With the Attack & Attack II the ball is released from above the net, a true downward trajectory at high speeds, providing unmatched spike simulation with realistic reaction time for the ultimate digging drills. | Not capable of delivering a true spike over a regulation net. Spike drill must be performed from same side of net, below net height, severely limiting ball travel distance & player’s reaction time. |
Serving | Up to jump serve speeds and release point. Breaking top spins and floaters. | No spin limits serve to a simple floater. Low release point requires an arc to clear net & slower speeds to keep in court. |
Visibility | Can see the ball from feed to delivery, providing a true sense of timing. True visual timing has to be based on ball movement. | Player’s timing must be based on a small light seen from across the court and an unrealistic “buzzer.” |