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Volleyball drills

  1. Bring your hands to the ground from an upright position and keep your legs stretched.
  2. Take small steps forward with your hands until you cannot go any further..
  3. Then move your feet towards your hands until you cannot go any further. Take small steps, only using your ankles to walk.
  4. Repeat these movements a number of times.

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  • Players each have a ball and
  • make an attacking jump towards the net holding the ball.
  • When they reach the net they have to raise the ball behind their heads, jump and  throw the ball over the net.


  • Pay attention:
    • proper posture
    • proper height
    • properly lift arms
    • ball in
  • probably a bit lower for beginning players to increase success factor.
  • Keep ball high, individually, with hands and feet. It does not matter how, as long as the ball does not hit the ground.
  • Keep ball high with the fists.
  • Keep ball high with underarms.
  • Let ball bounce and go underneath as often as possible. Because the ball bounces lower and lower, the player has to lower more and more and move faster.
  • Place two balls on each other and balance them
  • Two balls on each other and balance, throw up upper ball, change the balls, top to bottom.
  • Bounce two balanced balls and walk around
  • Ball from hand to hand, and move around the body, from high to low.
  • Keep ball between the legs, with one hand in front of the ball, and the other hand on the back.
  • Throw up the ball a little, and then the hand from front to back and reverse.
  • Players are in a square
  • A to B, B to  C, C to D, D to A
  • Pay attention to distance feet

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  • The players begin throwing the ball between them.
  • After throwing the ball, each player walks around the cone to the other side.
  • One of the players then determines how the ball is passed and in which way the players move around the cone.
  • The other players imitate this player.

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  • everybody individually plays ball overarm against wall
  • pay attention to technique of the hands
  • they learn to control the ball
  • if possible, indicate a height (height of net + bit extra where the ball should hit the wall

extra challenge:

  • 'write' a word on the wall with the ball (around 5-7 letters)
  • Trainer is in the back of the field with line of players beside him
  • Trainer throws the ball in the air and  player a comes in, diagonally, and plays the ball to player b at the net, left front.
  • Player b catches ball and joined line besides trainer.
  • For a large group, make 2 lines beside the trainer and a catcher right forward to keep the tempo up.
  • explain technique first (heart shape, play the ball with 10 fingers
  • fasten the net a bit lower on one side
  • make pairs of about equal length
  • pairs with net in between, and only pass overarm.
  • distance not too big and concentration.
  • Pay a lot of attention to fingers in heart shape and playing with 10 fingers 
  • is about success experience,