Is there a specific strategy to serving in beach volleyball?

Is there a specific strategy to serving in beach volleyball?

Sinjin Smith (Volleyball Player) gives expert video advice on: How important is a good serve in beach volleyball?; What is the 'underhand serve'?; What is a 'floater serve'? and more...

Trying to decide what serve to use on the beach is difficult, because there's so many of them. You want to start out with your best serve. See if it gets your opponents in trouble. If it doesn't, then you want to change the serve. What I like to do is throw in a serve every once in a while, maybe a short serve, that forces the passer to move forward, and then to get an approach, he has to move back again before he gets his approach to come forward. Another serve that a lot of people don't use but like to throw in once in a while is the deep serve. It doesn't have to be a difficult looking serve but if you can force the passer to move backwards, he has to pass the ball farther to the setter, a harder ball to set, and then the hitter who was the passer has to move much further to get to the net to attack the ball.