Volleyball drills for technique condition

• give each other the right arm and bend the knees to sitting position.
• idem left arm

• pairs shake hands crossed (see picture) and bend the knees to sitting position.

pairs with the back against each other sit down and get up again.

• pairs are behind each other, 
• last player lifts leg of the player before him. 
• the front player bends the other knee 

• Team of both sides field end line.
•  enter the field in pairs. 
• Trainer brings ball into the field and pairs have to try underhand to score with the other pair 
• Winning the pair remains and lost pair joins the back of the line. 
• Team with the least balls on the ground wins. 

This game can be played with every 4 exercises you can come up with.

1. Make pairs to do exercises.
2. every pair gets a note with 4 boxes in which they can write a code with the figures 1, 2, 3, 4
3. the trainer makes a code, this can be 4 different figures (4231) or repeated figures (2233)
4. the players have to do the 4 exercises in sequence of the code they have written down. When they have done all 4 exercises, they have the code checked by the trainer, who notes how many are correct and how many are not.
5. the players write down a new code, and again are going to do 4 exercises in the order of their code.

For example
Exercise 1: sprint 5x up and down between 9m
Exercise 2; block left, rotate, block middle, rotate, block right with pairs opposite each other and two times up and down
Exercise 3: sitting on the bench, ball is thrown, return underhand while getting up. Both player throw 5x, catch 5x
Exercise 4: 10x sit-up | 10x push up | 10x knee 90 degrees - jump

The first pair to crack the code wins.

• quintet with 1 ball. 1 player is at the net
• Opposite him/her is a trio next to each other
• If the ball thrower throws a ball to the middle, the middle player passes the ball back and everybody remains.
• If the ball is thrown left, the player passes the ball back and changes left for mid 
• If the ball is thrown right, the player passes the ball back and changes right for mid 

Which trio keeps this up the longest.
If a ball is missed, the player that made the mistake leaves the field, and a new player comes in the middle.

After every part a short rest and continue. For parts with *, a bench is required, 2 to 4 persons per bench

• Deel 1:
  • 30 step-ups* (step up/down bench)
  • 15 push-ups* (feet on bench)
  • 30 step-ups*
  • 15 spiderman push-ups (pull up 1 leg as a frog at the same time as push ups)
• Part 2:
  • 30 east-west steps-ups* (right foot on bench, left foot besides, then left foot on right foot besides)
  • 10 squats jumps (bend the knees and when stretching jump as high as possible)
  • 30 east-west steps-ups* 
  • 10 squats jumps
• Part 3:
  • 20 sideways shuffles over 4 meter
  • 10 slit-squat jump (jump, and bend 1 knee, each time a different knee)
• Part 4:
  • 20 forward and backward sprints over 4 meters 
  • 10 squats jumps

• Make trios
• Each trio has a ball.
• Player in the middle keeps running an 8. Every time this player comes in the middle, a ball is thrown:
  • A throws (or plays overarm) the ball to B (in the middle)
  • B throws the ball underhand back to A and then runs around A until he is back in the middle.
  • Meanwhile, A plays the ball to C
  • C returns the ball overarm to B.
  • B plays the ball underhand back to C and then runs around C until he is back in the middle.
  • Enz.
• after 2-3 minutes the player in the middle is changed. 

Variation: 

• To make it simpler, player A and C can throw instead of playing overarm. Could be underhand throwing/catching or overarm throwing/catching.
• To practice standing still when playing/throwing, player B can throw and catch underhand.  

• The trainer puts the ball on the middle line.
• On the end line on both sides of the net is a line of players.
• At the trainer's signal, the run to the ball, who has it can keep it.

Which team collects the most balls

- 2 teams behind the three meter line
- defend, set up, and three meter attack
- when you have played the ball, you sprint to the net

VARIATION: instead of sprint:   block at the net
                                           duik naar achterlijn
                                           aanvalssprong

• Divide group into triplets.
• Form of play is 2 against 2 on a half court.
• Goal: move and communicate in backfield.
  • Do not want to score, but keep the ball in play, play "on" the person and make long rallies.
  • Hit the 3rd ball as much as possible. Play overhand to keep the rally going.
• Starting position:
  • 2 players in the court, 1 on the back line "waiting room" on both sides.
• Ball is brought in from 2-3 meters with toss and attacking stroke=> back 5-7 meter position.
• Passer becomes attacker. so after pass immediately to 3 meters and then attack.
• After attack immediately out and to waiting room.
• Non-passer goes forward immediately and becomes Setter then back to 5-7m position.
• "Waiting room" supplies new passer.