The "W" formation is often the first serve receive formation players learn when they start to play 6 vs 6 volleyball. This simple drill helps the players learn and practice how to set-up the "W" formation in all six rotations, while simultaneously getting some serve receive and hitting practice.
Creating a competitive environment when training serve and serve receive skills really helps to keep these drills interesting for your athletes. This drill has the servers and passers compete against each other for points and encourages aggressive, consistent serving and passing.
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.
Being able to consistently receive serve and "side out" effectively is vital to every successful team. This drill helps to train teams to "side out" effectively in every rotation, helps identify whether a team has any weak service reception rotations, and also gives extra training in those weaker rotations.
This can be a great drill when you have limited training time and want to optimize your serving and passing volume. The use of a "time limit" motivates the passers not to waste passing opportunities as well as work to create as many passing opportunities as possible in a short period of time.
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 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 engaging serve and pass drill places players into a competitive passing and setting situation that focuses on encouraging accuracy and precision when passing and setting.
This competitive serving and passing drill trains servers to take advantage of a finite number of service-line opportunities they have in matches and passers to focus on sideout efficiency.
Adding some competition to your serve and pass training not only adds bit of excitement to the drill, it also can simulate the type of pressure the players face in actual competition. This simple serve and serve receive drill encourages servers to be aggressive while limiting their serving errors.
This is a good drill if your passers often neglect to call serves "in" or "out" when receiving serve. It encourages the passers to communicate with each using effective verbal cues.
Adding some competition to your serve and pass training not only adds bit of excitement to the drill, it also helps to simulate the type of pressure the players face in competition. This simple serve and pass drill has a competitive element that encourages the servers, the passers, and the setters to focus more effectively on skill execution.
Adding some competition to your serve and pass training not only adds bit of excitement to the drill, it also can simulate the type of pressure the players face in actual competition. This simple serve and pass drill has a unique scoring system that puts the servers and the passers in competition with each other and encourages players to work…
Finding creative ways to train serve and serve reception and maintaining player focus on these activities to optimize learning is always a challenge. This drill focusses on improving individual serve and serve receptions skills, improves player focus by creating a competitive environment, and regularly gives players different "looks" by changing up the server they face, the direction they receive the…
Creating a competitive environment in serve and serve receive drills really helps to keep these types of activities interesting and motivating for your athletes. This competitive serve and serve receive drill improves the server's ability to aggressively serve to specific locations on the court, while simultaneously providing quality repetitions for passers in a competitive environment.
Movement skills are a key aspect of passing. Great passers move to the ball very efficiently, regardless of what direction they may need to move. This passing drill creates situations were players need to move in many different directions to pass.
