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…
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…
