This is a simple and fun game often used as part of the warm-up phase at the beginning of practice to get players motivated and improve player's competency with the overhead pass skill.
"Short Court" is a widely-used and very fun warm-up game that is also very good for introducing and stabilizing three contact play. The extremely small court means the ball moves slowly which aids novice players in controlling each contact so they can more easily learn the rhythms and timings of the game as well as reading and responding to ball…
Small-sided games like this one which incorporates a "back row attack only" limitation is a fun way to get players more practise defending medium-paced balls, helps to improve their ability to position effectively on the ball when attacking "out-of-system," and just generally helps with the reduction of attacking errors. They also make great warm-up games for the start of practice.
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.
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…
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 incredibly fun game for young children should be one of the first games you use to introduce them to the game of volleyball to children of primary school age. It teaches them the fundamental game concepts of attacking territory, defending territory, playing the ball over the net as well as allows you to introduce practically any throwing, striking, or…
