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Volleyball drills

  • Throw ball against wall.
  • Finish with two flat hands.
  • Catch ball high on the nose.
  • As it gets better, play 1 through, then catch.
  • One player stands in front on the right.
  • Other players line up in a row.
  • Trainer throws the ball diagonally hard into the corner.
    • Player positions himself well under the ball towards the front-right player
    • Player holds his ground like a plank
    • Player plays underhand to the player on the right front side
    • Player turns to the right front
  • Coach throws ball in at different positions.
  • Team solves it in three plays.
  • Basket is on the right front side.
  • Players stand in line.
  • Trainer throws the ball diagonally hard into the corner.
    • Player positions himself well under the ball towards the basket.
    • Player bounces the ball nicely.
    • Player plays overhand into the basket.
    • Player retrieves own ball and puts it in the basket
  • Who scores the most points.
  • Trainer places hoops in difficult places before practice.
  • Players serve into hoops.
  • Make groups of 3,
    • One player stands at the back line with the ball to serve,
    • the other two players move to the other side of the net.
  • The first player is going to serve, the other two are going to defend and call.
  • The player not defending runs forward and catches the ball.
  • It is rolled to the player who defended and the player who caught goes under the net to the player who saved.
  • It goes on like this all the time.
  • Building up with a pass and possibly attacking.
  • If the ball falls between the players or falls without being called, as punishment sit-ups or pumps.

6 different exercises to be done in turn for 30 seconds (at 100%) and then 30 seconds to 1 min rest

  • ladder + dives
  • sit-ups
  • tap lines + attack run
  • squats
  • bench/step to jump on
  • pumping position tapping or pumping shoulders


  • The group is divided into pairs.
  • They stand in front of each other in pump-up position.
  • They do handshake
    • right/right, left/left
    • high five right/left, left/right
  • The team is divided into 2 groups (4 according to the amount of players).
  • team 1 = storage team
  • team 2 = catch team
  • Team 1 serves 1 for 1.
  • They start close to the net and when they succeed they can move further and further away.
  • Team 2 forms a line on the opposite side behind the back line.
  • When player 1 of team 1 serves, player 1 of team 2 comes in the field to catch the ball.
  • He catches the ball and walks outside the square to team 1 to serve and joins the back of the line.
  • The server walks outside the square to team 2 to catch the ball and joins the back of the line.
  • The children walk around in the room.
  • There is one tickler who can catch the other children with the hoop.
  • When someone is tagged, they have to hold the hoop together with the tickler and try to catch the children.
  • There may be up to 3 children per hoop.
  • If they catch a 4th child, he or she must get a new hoop and continue catching children.
  • The game is over when there are no more children walking around freely.

The team is divided into 2 (or more) equal groups.
The groups compete against each other during different tasks:

  1. walk forwards to the cone, tap the cone, walk backwards
  2. walk forwards to the cone, tap the cone, walk backwards
  3. walk forward to the cone, tap the cone, walk backwards, take player 2 to the cone, player 1 stays behind and player goes to get player 3 ...
  4. walk with ball forward to the cone, put ball on cone and walk backward, 2nd player walks forward to the cone, takes ball and walks backward and passes ball.
  5. Passing the ball while sitting above the head
  6. pass the ball through the legs
  7. pass the ball left/right
  8. get to the other side by moving hoops
  9. The 2 groups now form 1 big group.
  10. get the mat across while sitting above your head
  11. getting the big ball across without touching the ground
  • Speed ladder is from the back line towards the net, in the middle of the field.
  • Players move every round with a different movement pattern for the footwork through the speed ladder towards the net, then at position 3 a block, move to position 2 or 4 (alternate) and there a block again.
  • Then walk a lap around the square until when they are back at the ladder.


ladder exercises:

  1. 1 foot per square
  2. 2 feet per section
  3. left in, right out
  4. 2 in front, 1 in back
  5. jump open