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…
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 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 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.
Teams that are able to successfully defend against powerful attacks have a great competitive advantage over opponents. It's not an easy skill to develop. Often we see coaches hit ball after ball across the net off a box to train this skill. However, the experience of digging a coach on a box is very different from digging an actual attacker.…
This is an introductory drill to train the basics of transition attack. This drill could be set-up with all six players on the court, but structured the way it is, the focus is put more on defending a specific area of the court and individual execution. Removing some players removes unnecessary distractions and allows for more targeted focus on skill…
This is an introductory drill to train the basics of transition attack. This drill could be set-up with all six players on the court, but structured the way it is, the focus is put more on defending a specific area of the court and individual execution. Removing some players removes unnecessary distractions and allows for more targeted focus on skill…
This is a simple and popular drill used by a lot of programs to get some simple defense and out-of-system setting repetitions. It's a great drill to quickly get your athletes some repetition volume in these important skills and train skill accuracy.
Teams with defenders who are efficient at defending hard attacks have more success. Often to train this skill we hit a lot of balls at our players off of boxes. The problem however is that digging a ball hit off a box is not the same as digging a real hitter. It's great for helping the player learn how to…
