Sports Attack Skill Attack Volleyball Serving Machine
The Sports Attack Skill Attack is built for durability, featuring a frame made of powder-coated, rust-resistant steel tubing. Its sturdy tripod base ensures stability and easy maneuverability with lockable, non-marking casters. The machine drives two robust 6.5″ diameter ball-throwing wheels powered by two variable-speed motors. This design allows rapid repetition with almost instant recovery, eliminating waiting for an air-powered launch system.
Features
- The Skill Attack is the ideal for individual practice. Unlike other machines that release from floor level, it offers a ball release point over 5 feet high. It ensures thousands of reps in daily practice for serving, receiving, setting, and digging with unmatched accuracy and repeatability. It is perfect for young, severe players and competitive club or school youth teams.
- Serving: The Skill Attack delivers a full range of spins, including sharp down spins and breaking floaters, at speeds up to 45 MPH. It can be easily rolled along the serving baseline to change the angle of the serves.
- Spiking: This machine is excellent for digging drills, providing power and accuracy from the same side of the net.
- Setting: The Skill Attack provides rapid reps at varying intervals, ensuring accurate and consistent soft sets with no spin at any angle and height.
- Adjustability: With horizontal throwing head movement and a new quick-release knob, you can direct the ball in any direction to challenge a player's weak side and extend their range. The vertical and horizontal movement allows instant ball placement anywhere on the court, creating realistic game situations and increasing difficulty.
- Portability: The new quick-disconnect leg design makes this compact unit easy to roll anywhere on the court, backyard, or garage.
- Storage: The Skill Attack fits through any standard door for safe storage and can be instantly broken down for easy transportation, fitting into the trunk of any car.
Sports Attack Skill Attack VolleyballSpecifications
- Release Point Range: 5′3″
- New Serving Speeds: 45 MPH
- Spiking: From same side of net
- Setting: Yes
- Spin: All serves (including breaking sidespin serves), spikes, and sets
- Location Control: Instant
- Portability: Breaks down to fit in the trunk of any size car
- Electrical Requirements: 110V and 220/240V also available
- New Throwing Wheel Size: 6.5″ diameter, 1.5″ wide
- Dimensions: 36″ wide x 72'' tall 40'' deep
- Platform Height: n/a
| FUNCTIONS | WHEEL-PROPELLED MACHINES | AIR-PROPELLED MACHINES |
|---|---|---|
| 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.” |
