Volleyball drills for technique passing / defense / reception
Practice on defense, technical attack and drop balls.
- Practice defensive techniques.
- Improve technical attack techniques.
- Practice with drop balls.
- 1 side with block.
- 2 servers
- 1 passer
- 1 catcher
- Thick mat obstructs passer's view, requiring passer to focus on ball trajectory.
- Passer passes to catcher who rolls on to serveers.
- Roll through after 10 balls
- 3 players in the middle play overhand for themselves.
- 2 players outside also play overhand for themselves.
- The outside players run around it.
- And pass in between.
- Divide group into triplets.
- Form of play is 2 against 2 on a half court.
- Goal: move and communicate in backfield.
- Do not want to score, but keep the ball in play, play "on" the person and make long rallies.
- Hit the 3rd ball as much as possible. Play overhand to keep the rally going.
- Starting position:
- 2 players in the court, 1 on the back line "waiting room" on both sides.
- Ball is brought in from 2-3 meters with toss and attacking stroke=> back 5-7 meter position.
- Passer becomes attacker. so after pass immediately to 3 meters and then attack.
- After attack immediately out and to waiting room.
- Non-passer goes forward immediately and becomes Setter then back to 5-7m position.
- "Waiting room" supplies new passer.
- Trainer brings the ball into play towards the passer by throwing/striking.
- Of the two passers, the one who claims the ball will play the ball to 1 of the 2 SVs.
- SV gives long setup towards attack.
- Attacker hits ball straight through and retrieves ball, ball in ball box, joins passers.
PASS -> SV
SV -> ATTACK
ATTACK -> PASS
SV -> ATTACK
ATTACK -> PASS
Starting position: 3 players on red side, rest on blue side.
- Blue side always starts, with OH service.
- Tennis OH directly over the net => approximately 3 meter line.
- After Tennis outside the posts to the other side.
- Red players: place ball in center of court where around 3 meters the blue players are.
- Blue players: Place ball deliberately left or right of the center of the field where the red team is standing.
- Red side: thinking, what is your next action?
- Played left => Red player is going to do exercise 1
- Played right => Red player is going to do exercise 2.
Examples of exercises:
- Mat => make roll
- Pawns => shuffle through them
- Foot ladder with assignment.
- Bad Ball => pick up in bin and join the other team.
- 2-pairs
- 1 with ball, 1 without ball lies on the ground
- series of 30 seconds with 30 seconds rest
- At start signal, player lying down stands up, gets ball thrown to him.
- Player plays back overhand and goes back to the ground.
- Again, explosive up, get ready, play and return to ground.
- 30 seconds rest
- Next series of 30 but pass underhand.
- Then change and start again.
- Two teams of up to 4 people, 1 ball.
- On both sides 2 persons in the field, other persons behind the back line.
Goal: score in 1x in the other field, inside the lines.
Rules:
- Start with simple underhand service
- We play underhand tennis, so in 1x over the net.
- Difficult ball may bounce 1x, but then the ball must be returned with: one hand, one foot or the head.
If a mistake is made, the player leaves the court, goes to the back line, and a new player takes over.
Organization:
- Players without ball on P2, P3, P4, P5/6 and P1/6.
- Other players with ball on P6
Execution:
- Start with throwing, tossing or punting.
- Later BH from the net and OH from the backfield.
- From P6 pass the ball to P4 and run after it.
- From P4 and P3 move the ball to P5/6 and P1/6 respectively and backward.
- From P5/6 and P1/6 to P3 and P2 ball chase.
- At P2 catch and connect to P6.
- 2 groups of 4 to 5 kids on half a field.
- 2/3 on the serve. 1 player on the other side of the net for the pass. 1 player at the net.
- There is a serve and the passer plays the ball to the player at the net.
Who catches the ball and throws the ball to the serve. - The passer remains standing for 10 balls. The two players at the serve take turns hitting.
- After 10 balls, turn to pass.
Warm-up exercise focusing on neat passing and moving:
- 2 players with a ball stand about 4 meters apart.
- Opposite them, 2 twos/threes stand without ball.
- The players with ball play to the person opposite, this person plays the ball back cleanly and joins the other row shuffling.
- Carry this through at a fast pace, making sure players are actively moving.
- The players stand in a diamond in the field.
- On the other side of the field, the hoops are in the corners.
- The trainer/trainer serves easily to the other side.
- On the other side, they try to pass 3 times and then try to drop down into the hoop.
