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Volleyball drills

service-estafette-22

  • This exercise is fun to do and gives a lot of fun and competition! Relays in general already create competition.
  • What this exercise also wants to imitate is the stress factor that a service brings.
  • The players are divided into equal teams and lined up on the serving area of the same court. The first player of a team serves and retrieves his ball. After the next player is tapped, this one serves, and so on.
  • It is important for a player to serve quickly, but it must also be flawless, otherwise the ball must be retrieved and served again! Group for the first time must reach a multiple of the number of players in the group.
  • If the teams are small, it is fun to have everyone serve two or three times.
  • Needed:
    • Minimum of 6 players
    • As many balls as there are teams


  • 2 players stand up on bench or cupboard
  • 1 playmaker
  • 1 attacker
  • 4 defenders
  • Coach throws ball to defenders,
    • who play to sv,
    • sv plays on attacker,
    • attacker hits ball in the block,
    • defenders make sure they are under the ball.
    • Play out rally
  • Players stand in line at the first bench
  • Jumping on the first bench
  • Jumping over the 2nd bench
  • Jumping on the lower board 2 pieces
  • Jumping on the high board 3 or 4 pieces

Exercise 1

  • Pass ball to defending player
  • Around the post and defend again


Exercise 2

  • Player on his belly on the 3 meter line
  • Player at the net hits the ball throws up and hits the ball, player on his belly comes up and defends the ball
  • step back and repeat


Exercise 3

  • player stands on the backline with his back to the net
  • player at the net calls yes and hits the ball or throws the ball short
  • player turns around and defends or ducks the ball


Exercise 4

  • player stands on a chair with a ball a little distance from the net
  • second player tries to take the ball from his hands with a block jump

One side of the net

  • Attacking player on his/her position
  • Passer ( libero if necessary )


The other side

  • 2 blockers ( center and corner ) --> 1 block if there is a center player on the other side
  • Defenders on all positions


The exercise

  • Someone passes to offensive player and libero
  • Build up and try to score


  • Blockers set up a block go for the ball
  • Defenders try to defend the ball


Attacking player gets 10 balls and he/she must try to score as much as possible.

--> possibly also let them use the 3 meter attack

Power round

  • 15 situps
  • 20 sec planks
  • 15 burpees
  • 30 runs (pushup stance, bring knees to elbow on opposite side, fast pace)
  • from back line to 3 meter line
  • shuffle back
  • Make an attack (without the ball)
  • back to 3 meter line
  • 3x blocks
  • Dive back to backline
  • you have 2 passers on ra and la
  • trainer throws/serves the ball over the net to the 2 passers.
  • after having called loose, pass the ball to sv on 2/3
  • sv gives set up to lv
  • someone on the other side of the net tries to block and otherwise retrieve the ball
  • move up one spot at a time
  • Make 2 teams of about 5 children.
  • Each team stands on one side of the field.
  • Place 5 balls on both 3meter lines.
  • When the trainer calls GO, everyone rolls the balls to the other side.
  • Who has the least balls in their field after 3 minutes has won.

Hole 1

  • Start on back line (2 players, rest of the field is empty)
  • Play over 3x with pass, set-up, attack.
  • Pass under the net (keep playing).
  • Hit the antenna with the swing.
  • Failed to start again at the back line, succeeded to go to hole 2.


Hole 2

  • Hit the ball from the backline into the net.
  • Person 2 "fishes" and gives set-up (2 plays).
  • Person 1 comes forward and plays overhands against the antenna.
  • 2 balls per pair.
  • One throws the ball, the other plays back the BH.
  • Throw in the second ball when the first one comes back.
  • Together they keep 2 balls in the air: so twice as much ball-contact as when working with 1 ball.
  • Variations/expansions: throw something left/right (move > stand still), throw short/long.

Goal: Warming up with the ball, ending with concentration exercise on technique to keep the ball in play.

  • The ball will be kept in play diagonally over the net.
  • There will be 3 x replays, pass/setup/attack.
  • Every time the team plays the ball over the net, they turn a spot.

diagonally-across-the-net

  • The game is slowly built up from just playing over and underhands to targeted attack from jump.


  1. overhand at the net and underhand in the backfield
  2. attack from position
  3. attack from jump, aimed/strike the person (through).
  4. The team must keep the ball in play for 30 or 60 seconds. (The team must keep the ball in play for 30 or 60 seconds.) When the ball falls to the ground the time starts over. Set a maximum time of 5 minutes, for example, if you are not successful. You can extend the time each time you do the exercise by 10 seconds and thus keep the players trainer concentrated for longer and longer on passing the ball neatly.


Note: Make sure that the players do not pass the ball over the net in a wide arc, but that they attack in a targeted manner.

If you have more than 8 players, you can also place players at the right back and play over the whole field.