Volleyball drill: team knot

Suitable for the following techniques: warming-up

Team Knot

  • This activity promotes:
    • Cooperation
    • Communication
    • Dealing with disappointments
    • Fun
  • Working method
    • Make a circle of your players of maximal 12 players.
    • If you are doing this with a large selection you could split the first team and second team or make a circle of men next to a circle of women. 
    • Give the following instruction:
      • Hold out your hand to someone across the way and hold it tightly. 
      • Then give someone else your other hand.
      • This creates the team knot. 
      • Make sure you get out of the knot without letting go of the hands.
  • Variation
    • Nobody can say anything. 
    • Everyone can say something.
    • One person can say something.
  • You can, after the group is out of the knot, have the group discuss what the best tactic is and then put them back "in the team knot".
  • Evaluation
    • Watch carefully what happens, who takes the lead, who gives up quickly? 
    • How does the group solve the problem?
Add to training

Characteristics of the drill

6
12
Necessary materials:
Not applicable
Suitable for the following levels:
C
B
A
Seniors