Here is a drill that incorporates three skills: Passing, Setting and Hitting

In the clip below from Krossover, you will see a simple drill that your players will love to do. This is a very good warm-up drill that could be done every practice. Here are the basics of the drill called Doubles:

• The setter begins by tossing the ball to a passer
• The passer next pass a nice high pass to the setter
• The passer then uses a three shuffle step transition foot pattern to a four step approach
• The setter will give set the ball and the passer will attack

This drill is part of a complete course found on CoachTube. For more information about this course click the link The Best of Volleyball Coaching

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Here is a fun competitive serving game that requires players to serve into all 6 zones.

In the video clip below Anne Kordes, former University of Louisville Head Coach and past President of the American Volleyball Coaches Association, demonstrates a competitive serving game called Around the World.

In this drill teams attempt to serve a ball to a teammate placed in zone 1. If the serve is accurate enough that the teammate can catch the ball while seated, that team can move to zone 2. Each time a zone is completed a new player becomes the target player.

In order to win the game a team must serve successfully into zones 1-6 and then repeat that process by serving successfully in zones 6-1.

This could be a great fun game to utilize at summer camp.

The drill was taken from Coach Kordes’ instructional DVD. For more information about that DVD click the link Serving Fundamentals for Volleyball

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Here is a great fun game/drill to add to some variety to your practices.

The clip below is taken from a live University of Pittsburgh practice. The One Hit Drill is being conducted by oach Dan Fisher (University of Pittsburgh Head Coach; 2017 ACC Coach of the Year; 2017 ACC Champions; former Concordia -Irvine University Head Coach, 2012 NAIA National Championship.)

The One Hit Drill is just one of many drills that you can get from Coach Fisher’s dvd entitled: All Access Volleyball Practice with Dan Fisher.The unique thing about this DVD is that not only do you get great drills, but you also get to see how a top level coach designs practices and instructs his players.

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Here is a drill that will give you the opportunity to work on Transition Hitting into specific zones.

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By John Forman

Coach Forman is currently the assistant volleyball coach at Midwestern State University. Before that he was the Head Coach of the professional women’s team at Svedala Volleybollklubb in Sweden

Synopsis: This is a good game-play exercise that gets every player lots of touches and works especially on transition hitting.

Age/Skill Level: This is a drill for intermediate and higher levels.

Requirements: 6+ players, a ball, a net, extra antennae

Execution: Attach the spare antennae to the net to create a channel for attacking in Zones 2 and 4 (similar to what’s discussed here). Place three players to a side, with one at the next in Zone 2 (opponent’s Zone 4), one as the OH, and one as back court defender.

One side starts the attack with a set to 4. The opposing player at the net blocks line, so the two others defend the angle. If the back court player digs the ball, the blocker sets the OH in Zone 4. If the OH digs the ball, the back court player sets the blocker in Zone 2, in which case the OH hitter on the other side blocks and the other two play defense. In this case the pattern is same in that if the front court player digs the ball, the back court defender sets the blocker, otherwise the blocker sets the OH. In other words, every player touches the ball each play. Continue until the ball goes dead, then the players rotate.

Variations:

• This can be done cooperatively to encourage longer rallies.
• The antennae can be adjusted to alter what the hitters have available to swing at around the block.

Additional Comments:

• This drill is from England Junior National team coach Bertrand Olie and was posted as part of an interview with him on the Volleyball England website.
• As a cooperative drill this could be used as a warm-up.

This drill was provided by Coaching Volleyball

 By John Forman

Coach Forman is currently the assistant volleyball coach at Midwestern State University. Before that he was the Head Coach of the professional women’s team at Svedala Volleybollklubb in Sweden

This is a great warm-up type game that gets players moving and competing while also working on communication and strategy.

Age/Skill Level: This is a game for all levels

Requirements: 4+ players, full court

Execution: Split the group in half and put the teams on opposite sides of the court. Two players from each team will be involved in each rally, so the rest will be off behind the end line waiting to rotate in (if you have more than the minimum).

A rally starts with one player from each team on the court, and one off the court beyond the end line as “server”. The servers count to 3 together, then underhand throw the ball over the net to the other side. From here the teams play volley tennis with one contact per ball per side. Play continues until both balls are dead. If one team wins both balls they get a point. Otherwise, it’s a wash (no point). Game is to 10, or whatever you choose.

Variations:

• You can play on a reduced sized court for younger players.
• You could play with teams of 3, but probably wouldn’t want to go with more than that.
• Illegal “serves” (toss too flat) can either be a replay or you could count them as if they were a missed serve. The latter counts as a ball won by the receiving team.
• You can split the group out any number of ways – by age, by height, by shirt color, etc.

Additional Comments:

• This game was first introduced to me, I think, by the Swedish players when I coached at Svedala. They referred to it as Brazilian 2-ball tennis (or something like that). To this day I refer to it that way with my teams.
• Every team I’ve ever seen play this game – my own and others’ – has enjoyed it a great deal. Even up to national team level professionals.