What levels of programs purchase the Attack Machines?
International teams to college programs, including the top Women's teams in the nation, and well over 1,000 high schools across the country, currently use our units. The Attack machines are clearly the number one Volleyball Machines in the world!
How does the Attack and Attack II Volleyball Machines compare to the AirCAT machine in performance.
The Attack and Attack II has a throwing head that easily pivots (no need to move entire machine), delivering balls to any location on the court. Spin, speed and tempo can be adjusted instantly between throws. With the AirCAT the entire machine (on wheels) must be moved to introduce variation. It is limited by a release point that is lower than the net, speed is limited by arch of the ball and it can not impart a spin as it is propelled by air.
How about the comparison of the Attack and Attack II Volleyball Machines and the AirCAT relative to the ball release point.
Women's net height is 7'ht- 41/4”, men's is 7'- 11 5/8”. The Attack and Attack II have a very realistic release point, elevating from 5ft to well above the men's net at over 8'6”. The AirCAT pivots up to only 6ft.
Can the Attack & Attack II do a full range of drills?
Yes, both machines can do digging, serving and team coordination drills. Be sure to take a look at the drills available for download on the Volleyball product pages.
Digging drills: Ball Released from above net provides a true downward trajectory at high speeds and unmatched spike simulation for digging. Delivery from above the net provides realistic reaction time during drills.
Serving drills: Consistent repetition of a full range of speeds and spins including jump serves, breaking top spins and floaters.
Team coordination drills: Throwing head pivots instantly to any point on the court, at any speed or spin, from any height. This provides a realistic game simulation involving serves, sets, tosses, passes, hits or spikes.
How well does the AirCAT's simulate game situations?
Digging: Aircat is not capable of delivering a true linear spike over a regulation net. Spike drill must be performed from same side of net, below net height, limiting ball travel distance and players reaction time.
Serves: No spin limits serve to a simple floater. Lower (than the Attack or Attack II) release point requires an arc to clear net and slower speeds to keep in court.
When using the Attack or Attack II, is there tearing or cutting of the ball or excessive ball wear?
There is no tearing or cutting of balls. The machines can make superficial marks on balls with harder exteriors. Leather or softer exteriors are only slightly worn with extended use, no marking from wheels on softer balls. If you would like to know what volleyballs look like after seasons of use with our machines, call us and we can provide names of hundreds of coaches who can explain to you how insignificant ball wear has been for them. We have machines in use for 5 – 7 years by coaches who have successfully used the same volleyballs in their machines year after year.
(Example of ball wear after a season of use.)
