Volleyball drills

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.

Goal of the exercise:

• Defending,
• set up,
• attacks

Exercise Explanation:

• You defend,
• give a set-up
• and attack.
• Chase your own action around the pawns.
• Start the exercise by
  • Play overhand over the net
  • and extend to hitting
  • and then to jump and hit.

• Two teams one throws the ball up to the other
• who picks it up underhand does one time for himself abovehand
• and then a quiet smash hit so that the other picks it up underhand
• and does the same.

• This exercise is done in pairs, standing about 4 meters apart.
• One player rolls the ball to the other.
• The latter must stop the ball with two hands behind his/her back.
• In this way, the player can only stop the ball in a low forward position: shoulders in front of the knee, knee in front of the feet.
• Make sure you understand that the exercise is for learning to adopt a low posture when passing / defending.
• Physically, this exercise is very taxing on the legs, so don't do it for 5 minutes, but play three series of 10 balls.

• 2 rows behind the back line.
• First 2 stand in the field.
• Trainer brings in ball.
• Pass left player towards position 2/3 then setup of right player.
• The passer goes to attack on own side of the court.
• The setupper does attack coverage.
• Team rotates through new team.

• 4 or more players.
• Divide them left side and right side.
• The left side calls or indicates with their finger number 1 or 2.
• At 1 the right side must pass underarms and at 1 they must pass overhand.
• To play the ball behind you.
• Variation is to call short or deep.
• At deep play above hands and at short play forearms

• Couple 1 ball facing each other, sit on the ground and pass to each other overhead.
• Later also try it lying on your belly

• Ball toss in pairs
• hitting back with one arm.
  • Start with your good arm.

• 3 players are lying on the ground
• trainer hits the ball on the ground and
• then they get up
• and they play the ball in three over the net.

• Player A throws/strikes the ball towards player C.
• Player C serves the ball to player B.
• Player B gives a pass to c.
• Player C passes to the mats.

Goal: try to attack/play 3rd ball on the mats (straight or diagonal).

After each ball move one place in your own group.

Extension: When there are enough players one could also choose to place a block.

• Two players per half and then
• play over the net after two hits and
• turn out the next two
• If it goes very well, bring in a second ball.

• C throws a ball to A or B

• Set up a block on that side 

• Pass the ball over the block to the defence 

• Attacking from the middle 

• Change after 10 balls Variation: attack on outside or behind