This is a simple, fun, and challenging drill for young players. It helps them learn that even when not playing the ball, they need to be adjusting position based on what they need to do next and not caught "watching" their teammates play, all while giving them meaningful passing, setting, and hitting repetitions.
This simple drill helps new players improve their lateral movement to the ball and their ability to receive the ball from one location and re-direct the ball to a different target.
This fours game puts players into a variety of different situations to improve their overall game play and ball control. In particular, defending against medium paced attacks, attacking "out-of-system," and in trouble situations.
A key feature of defense in volleyball is the ability to quickly back-up, yet keep your body weight forward once you have repositioned. This high volume drill helps the player to improve their ability to quickly back-up in a low defensive posture while keeping their body in the preferred weight forward position.
This fun game adds a baseball theme to your scrimmage time. It will encourage your players to work to sideout consistently and be efficient scoring when easy (free) ball scenarios present themselves.
This game adds a basketball theme to your scrimmage time. It focuses on your team's attack combinations - especially the back row options - and encourages aggressive serving.
To become proficient blockers, middle players need a significant amount of practice, responding to sets of different tempos and in many different attack locations along the net. This drill creates a situation where blockers see sets to different locations and at different tempos, but in a predictable way so they can focus their efforts on technically improving the efficiency of…
Once players have acquired the abilities to pass-set-hit with some consistency in simple situations, this warm-up game becomes a very fun way to start practices. It gets the players excited, motivated, and encourages ball pursuit. It can help novice players learn some of the rhythms, timings, and general ball movements of the game, and reduces a key "rally breaker" to…
Being effective in out-of-system situations is fundamental to success in the modern game. This 6 vs 6 mini game helps train the scenario where a bump-set is used to set-up an attacker. This is a good drill to improve your team's transition in a common out-of-system situation and gain confidence with their bump-setting skills in a game situation.
This drill is called the "butterfly" because the rotation of the players loosely forms a butterfly wing shape. It is a classic volleyball drill typically used for warm-up or to get basic skills repetitions in up to four skills. Skills are used in ways that closely emulate the rhythms and timings experienced in actual match play which improves learning for…
This drill is fun and challenging for intermediate level players and is a great drill for the ball warm-up phase of any practice. It helps them to learn to communicate with each other quickly and efficiently during rallies. They will need to quickly decide who is going to perform each skill in the three contact sequence, then quickly reorganize and…
This is a fun drill to use with younger players, in a camp or clinic setting or as a bit of a ball warm-up drill. It's great for encouraging players to communicate, adapt, and get organized during a rally.
