Volleyball drills

1. Lie down flat on the ground on your belly and stretch your arms to the sides.
2. Bring your right foot to your left hand and keep your upper body, arms, and left hip in contact with the floor.
3. Go back to the starting position and then bring your left foot to your right hand.
4. Repeat these movements a number of times.

1. Lie down flat on the ground on your back, with your arms stretched to the sides.
2. Pull up your feet until your legs are bent around 90 degrees. Let the heels of your feet rest on the ground.
3. Bring your knees to the ground on the right side of your body. Keep your feet, torso, shoulders, and arms in contact with the ground.
4. Then bring your knees to the ground on the left side of your body.
5. Repeat these movements a number of times.

• 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.

• Player throws ball high to central forward and then gets in line to attack
  • if attack is not yet possible, the 3rd ball is played overarm over the net.
• On the forward left, player comes in that gives set up to the flank and there will be the attack.
• Pay attention to the set up:
  • ball up
  • leggs stretch 
  • point after the ball
• Set upper keeps hitting (10) balls

• 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

• 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.

• A and B are opposite each other and both have a ball
• They use one of these balls to play overarm.
• At the same time, they use the other ball to throw in a straight line.
• At the moment A plays the one ball overarm, B throws the other ball towards A, and reverse.
  • is also possible in a triangle

• 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)

• 2 or 3 lines
• trainer rolls the hoop
• player is walking besides the hoop and touches, with the LEFT leg, the ground THROUGH the hoop
• the hoop should roll on
• if this succeeds, this can be done multiple times per roll.

variants

1. same for right leg
2. walk in pairs besides the hoop
   • hoop in the middle
   • and than clap your hand IN the hoop (RL-RL)
3. walk in pairs beside the hoop
   • transfer the ball UNDERHAND through the hoop
     • so sit low
4. walk in pairs beside the hoop
   • the one gives the ball UNDERHAND through the hoop
   • the other transfers the ball ABOVE the hoop
   • next run reverse

The exercise below effective trains the abdominal muscles by throwing the volley ball overarm.

• Lie down on the floor with bent knees.
• Hold the ball with two hands, and bring your arms stretched behind your head as far as possible. This is also the start position of the exercise.
• Get up evenly, with both your arms and your upper body, to throw the ball as far as possible. It is important to maximize tension of your abdominal muscles.
• You can repeat this exercise 8 to 16 times, in 1 to 3 sets.

• trainer choses 4 (or 5) lines, and numbers them 1, 2, 3, 4 etc.
• Everybody stands on the outer line
• trainer calls out a line number, and everyone runs over there
• repeat a number of times
• At a given moment, the last to make the line is eliminated
• until there is a winner
  • disadvantage is that the lesser runners will not improve, because they are eliminated first.