This drill works to expand the court space your passers are able to cover while providing plenty of additional attacking, setting, and blocking reps to other players in an efficient way.
This small-sided game focuses on training the outside attack in out-of-system situations, improving out-of-system setting, and defending against the outside attack in one-on-one blocking situations
This fun game helps to improve a team's out-of-system play, outside blocking, and challenges players to "fight" to win points under difficult circumstances where they face a significant disadvantage.
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…
The capacity to identify and form an effective triple block in out-of-system situations is becoming a more and more vital skill of the modern game. This simple drill helps blockers to develop the decision-making skills needed to identify and react to simple triple block opportunities, improve the needed movement patterns and their abilities to coordinate those movements with the other…
The capacity to form an effective triple block in out-of-system situations is becoming a more and more vital skill of the modern game. This simple drill helps to introduce some of the needed movement patterns and improves the blockers' abilities to coordinate those movements with each other. It's a good drill to use with players just starting to learn this…
Learning to read a hitter's approach and their hitting intent is fundamental to good blocking. However, young blockers often focus more on the path of the set than the hitter. This drill removes the ball from the blocker's vision, forcing them to focus on the hitter to obtain information related to the timing and location of the hit.
Learning to read a hitters approach and their hitting intent is fundamental to good blocking. However, young blockers often focus more on the path of the set than the hitter. This drill creates a dynamic blocking environment, requiring blockers to block multiple times and removes the set from the blocker's vision. This forces them to focus on the hitter rather…
A team's ability to frequently form solid double-blocks greatly increases their defensive ability. Getting middle blockers comfortable moving quickly side to side to form blocks near the antennae is an important component of this skill. This drill helps get blockers efficient at lateral movement and closing with other blockers at speed.
Teams need to be able to "sideout" consistently and efficiently in all rotations. This game gives the receiving team a numerical player advantage and the unique scoring system of this game creates the need to not only sideout consistently, but also the need to sideout on their first sequence of contacts by attacking aggressively and getting those aggressive attacks around…
