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.
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 2 vs 2 modified game introduces the fundamentals of the spiking arm-swing. Players learn how to hit the ball over the net using one hand, as well as how and when a hit is used in the game. It also teaches them the basic tactics of volleyball - specifically the concept of attacking and defending territory, how to use…
Players need to learn to receive and redirect hard-driven balls to the center of the court from a wide variety of attack locations. This simple drill directs attacks at the defender from a variety of different locations along the net, giving them the opportunity to learn to appropriately adjust their platform to defend and redirect the ball as required.
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.
This is simple and fun game for players in the earliest stages of learning how to play - specifically players who have not yet developed competent rallying skills. It teaches them how to attack and defend territory and gives them practice executing volleyballs skills from their own toss.
This simple drill helps to improve the ability of non-setters to successfully deliver hittable sets. It's a great drill to use for a few minutes near the start of practice during periods of the year where you want to reinforce this skill.
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.
Teams need to learn how to become very offensively efficient when the pass is perfect. This scrimmage game consistently puts setters in the optimum position to run their offensive system in all reception rotations and allows all players to become familiar with the rhythms and timings of their team's offensive system, workout any issues, and gain the confidence needed to…
A team's ability to consistently "sideout" in all rotations is vital to it's success. This unique scoring system of this game emphasizes the importance to "sideout" consistently.
This fun drill teaches players to "scramble" effectively in out-of-system situations. It will improve basic ball pursuit, the ability to generate a settable ball, to set effectively out of system, and to spike the ball from anywhere in the court.
Having servers just stay at the service line and serve over and over in practice is not very game-like. Servers almost always need to enter the court, participate in a rally, and possibly perform additional actions before they return to serve again. This changes the server's focus and they need to learn to refocus on serving after playing defense for…
