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Volleyball drills

3 rope ladders so 3 groups

  • In and out with both feet
  • The feet forwards on the outside, you bend your knees
  • Then you step in 1 box with your left foot, and with your right foot you touch your buttocks
  • In every box 2 feet
  • Hop sidewards 2 aside and 1 back
  • with two legs you hop sidewards, you bend your knees, and place your right foot behind your left foot

Split group in 3

  • Field 1)
    • Place a mat randomly in every field
    • At 2 sides there is a group to serve.
    • Serve on the mat.
    • Follow the ball and join the line at the other side
    • If you hit a mat, you score a point
  • Field 2)
    • 1 field full of hoops.
    • Players  serve
    • If you serve into a hoop, the hoop is yours
    • Each hoop a point
  • Field 3)                 
    • 2 overarm players
      • the one not playing overarm has to catch
    • The rest will serve in turn
    • . You serve to score and then you will become controller
    • A controller will become server
    • If the ball is not played overarm AND caught, the server has a point
  • Wad of cotton relay race:
  • 2 (or more) groups competing with each other.
  • There is a wad of cotton for every group which has to be brought from the one side line to the other by means of a dive and 1x blowing.
  • You can start as soon as the person in front of you is lying on his belly.
  • Everyone 1 ball and stand on the side line
    • move to the other side line while playing the ball overarm.
  • Idem
    • 3x playing overarm
    • Clap in your hands
    • 3x controlling
    • etc
  • Idem
    • 3x playing overarm
    • touch the ground
    • 3x playing overarm
    • etc
  • Line 1 players ready   to stop ball
  • Line 2  players behind trainer
    • The first gives ball to trainer and joins line 1
  • Trainer rolls ball and player from line 1:
    • Stops ball with right hand
    • Stops ball with left hand
    • Stops ball with foot
    • Runs around and sits before the ball and lets the ball roll between the legs
    • Runs around and lies down before the ball and keeps ball still with outstretched arms
  • High tempo!
  • roll out 2 rope ladders
  • Perform assignment and trainer is at the end of the rope ladder and throws the ball
  • Player controls that ball and catches the ball and puts the ball in the ball box
  • You can change this per kid, depending on their success.
  • Challenge the child at its level.                
    • In each box 1 foot L R L R
    • rope-ladders-jumping
    • In every box 2 feet LR LR LR-In and out
    • rope-ladders-jumping
    • Move sideways
    • rope-ladders-jumping
    • and turn around
  • 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,
  • trios with 1 ball.
  • A and B are at the net, and C is opposite of A on the end line.
  • A throws ball to C, C throws diagonally to B, B catches.
  •   Meanwhile, A moves with regard to B, and then A throws the ball to C.
  • After 20 passes rotate 

trio-passing

  • pairs with 1 ball.
  • Net in between.
  • Serve ball with two hands, and send it via the ground, underneath the net, to player 2
  • Two teams are spread over the field. (1 team has ribbons)
  • The objective is for a team to pass the ball 10 times without interruption without the ball touching the ground or being captured by the opponent.
  • If player B gets the ball from player A, he cannot throw it back to player A.
  • Walking with the ball is not allowed.
  • You are not allowed to hit the ball from someone's hands.
  • You are also not allowed to pass the ball.
  • If the ball is dropped, or is captured by the opponent, the count starts again at zero.
  • If a team succeeds 10x in doing so, it scores a point.
  • Lie down in pairs of 2 next to each other
  • 1 tagger and 1 runner.
  • Runner lies down next to a pair and is safe
  • The one on the other side of the pair will be the runner.
  • If runner is tagged, he/she will be tagger.

Trainer stands with ball box at the net, position 2/3, players stand at position 1, 5 and 6 for defense.

Trainer throws ball to players:

  • If ball at position 1, players of position 1 and 6 exchange after playing back ball
  • If ball at position 6, players remain standing
  • If ball at position 5, players of position 5 and 6 clear after playing back ball


  • As long as the passing remains good at 2/3, the coach continues to pass the ball.
  • Players not participating stand around the field and make sure the ball pit stays filled.