Volleyball drills
- Individual exercise to improve ball feeling with one hand.
- Each player has 1 volleyball, mini volleyball, tennis ball, juggling ball (or for advanced players a non round object; a light plastic container or light bottle for example, but can be used with anything).
- The goal of the players is to keep the ball in the air by hitting it as many times as possible with only one hand.
- Have the players count how many times they can do this per the 2 minutes per task.
- Possible assignments:
- - Underhand lobsmash
- - Over your head
- - Hit your leg afterwards with the hand you played with
- - Clap your hands after touching them
- - Lying down -> sitting -> standing (and back)
- - Raising your knee/heel
- - Against the wall
- - In pairs one player under, the other over the net=
Be creative! = - Possible exercise for several people. (see image)
- One or more in the middle, the rest around it.
- Setters play the ball somewhere around them, the rest have to make sure that the ball is returned to setters in X number of times.
- Agree on how many times the ball can be played.
- Exercise stimulates:
- - Communication
- - Reflexes
- - Ball sense
- Course:
- Start at the ladder.
- Shuffle to the middle of the net.
- Make a block jump -> to the right and another block jump.
- Slalom around the poles.
- Shuffle around the pawns.
- Coach plays ball to playmaker.
- Three attackers and only one block.
- Three defenders .
- Warming up
- Ground exercises
- Set up in threes, chase the ball
- A to C, C to B, B setuo to C, C to A, A to B, B set up to A etc.
- Attacking three positions.
- Other side of the net, three blockers.
- Coach throws ball to libero.
- After attack: block position three.
- The one who blocked on position two or four: get ball and attack.
- Position three takes over that spot.
- Two teams on both sides.
- After every well played ball, turn in three.
- Pass obliquely if you don't have a complete team.
- Half of the team lined up at position 2.
- Other half of the team with ball at position 5.
- Just start throwing in and chasing the ball.
- Extend with passing at position 5 and overhand at position 2.
- Then expand further by adding exercises like blocking at the net, diving etc.
- All players stand outside the court behind the back line.
- They throw the ball up at their own pace/height and serve over the net.
- Extend: Practice targeted serving.
- Put 1 or 2 hoops in the field and let the players serve to them.
- You can practice with:
- Overhand serve
- Underhand serves
- Float serves
- Jump serve
- Lie on your back.
- Legs at 90° angle.
- Weight in each hand.
- Raise your arms.
- Extend left leg along with right arm.
- Extend right leg along with left arm.
- Etc
- Sitting position against the wall.
- Legs in an angle of 90°.
- Every 20 seconds you get a ball thrown to you
- Underhand pass
- Back to sitting position against the wall.
- Player A tips the ball deep to player C,
- Player C plays the ball to player B,
- B then tips the ball short and player C takes that ball and plays it back to player B.
- B gives a pass to the corner where player A is going to attack.
- Meanwhile, player C goes to defend the ball being attacked by player A on the other side and defends the ball to player B.
- And then player A shifts to C,
- C to B, and
- B to A.
- Free net defender and left back from the line.
- Attack from the other side.
- Block.
- Reading setup and using it to determine positions.
- Three defenders (pos 4,5, and),
- Two blockers