Volleyball drill: attack timing

Purpose of the exercise:

• To allow players to experience what it feels like to 'leave' later for the attack

Exercise Explanation:

• If volleyball players feel they are starting the attack pass too early,
• or the coach feels that the attackers are coming too early,
• this is a good exercise.

• The playmaker is put down with a ball carrier.
• He gets the assignment to play 5 or less times for himself.
• The attackers do not know how many times this will happen, so they can only leave when the set-up is given, not before.
• The attackers will have to come in more aggressively and will build up more speed and thus more height, provided they have a good brake pass.
• If this goes well, the trainer can decide to move the playmaker closer to the attackers, so that the distance the set-upper has to travel is shortened.
• This should make the attackers even more alert.