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Volleyball drills for technique defense / passing / digging / diving / reception

  • Ball is technically hit to position 1/5
  • Defense to position 3 over basket -learning to give ball height
  • Passer passes to position 2/4
  • Defender moves to home position
  • Attack on 2/4 to serve
  • Serve plays ball up for himself and catches ball
drawing Construction exercise
  • Trainer throws ball into far corner.
  • Player 1 runs to ball as fast as possible.
  • Player 1 plays the ball up.
  • Player 2 runs along to the ball.
  • Player 2 plays the ball to player 3.
  • Player 3 plays the ball over the net.
Goal: Move quickly to a hard-played ball, but with the calmness to play it up, so that running along fellow player can place the ball in their own court.

drawing Moving along defensively
  • Everyone lies on their stomachs on the back line with their heads toward the wall
  • The trainer stands along the net and throws balls toward the players.
  • On the trainer's signal, stand up as quickly as possible and make a high reception back to the trainer
  • Or you put down a hoop for them to hit to.
drawing Reflex reception
  • Per 2 keys to the hoop
  • One player stands in front of the hoop
  • She/he must run to the back
  • Ball can also be passed short so you must also defend short
  • Reception back
drawing Reception
  • Sitting back and forth deeply
  • Tapping pots
drawing Sitting deep
  • Practice on quick movement and stationary play.
  • 5 declarers red and 1 blue working player.
Starting position:
  • 5 people with ball
  • 1 player on both sides of the field at the back
  • 1 player on 2
  • 1 player on 3
  • 1 player on 4
  • Working player next to position 4 in block position
Exercise:
  • Working player does block and comes out like free blocker and defends technical attack from position 2
  • Ball is thrown in from position 3 to deep on 1. Working player does quick move to take out deep ball.
  • Short ball is played deep at position 5.
  • Attack from position 4. The working player does displacement to 3 meter line and defends.
  • Short deep ball at position 1.
Repetition:
  • 3 times intensively.
  • After this move on until every player has had their turn.
drawing Reception exercise
  • Construction
  • At one end directed pass
  • Running into the pass door
drawing Build-up, focused pass
Setup:
  • 2 storage players
  • 1 blocker on 2
  • 1 pass
  • 2 defenders
Exercise:
  • Storage is given to or between the defenders.
  • Receptionist joins the pass.
  • Non-reception player attacks at 3 or 4.
  • The person who took the reception runs to the back and jumps over the hurdle.
Passing: storage player > blocker > reception > storage
drawing Reception & block
The goal is to look at the block setting and set it properly.
This can be accomplished by following the following steps:
  • TR hits L.
  • L gives pass on 2/3 run-in SV and set.
  • In base to position 3 and 4.
  • Possibly expand to position 2 and 6.
drawing Move block orders
  • With ball along one side.
  • The other reception to the pass.
  • The pass catches.
  • Then make it a little harder by playing pass straight.
drawing Reception to pass
Setup:
Which team brings in most gold pieces/ pits?
  • 1 bank & one-against-all
  • 2-4 gangs of thieves
  • 1-2 guards.
Game consists of 4 rounds of play:

Game Round 1:
  • Thief - attacker: per post only 1 active & 1 gold piece at a time try to steal from bank.
  • Collect in own vault -hoop-.
  • Guard - defender- may only defend outside the bank.
  • If the thief is caught so tapped, he must leave the gold piece in the police station -under a cone.
  • Which team was able to steal most gold pieces?
Game Round 2:
  • Divide gold pieces equally among the thieves.
  • Thieves: safely move your gold pieces 1-for-1 to other safe -from one hoop to another.
  • Thief -attacker: walk around your cone without the guard catching you.
  • Agent -defender: in this case may only defend inside the bank.
  • If the thief is caught -attacked, he must leave the gold piece in the police station -under a cone.
  • Which team was able to transfer most gold pieces safely?

Game Round 3:
  • Thieves: for x time, steal as many gold pieces as possible from other safe.
  • Thief -attacker: mandatory back & forth through bank = watch for guard inside bank.
  • Guard may only defend inside bank.
  • If the thief is caught so tapped, he must leave the gold piece in the police station -under a cone.

Game round 4:
Same as game round 3, but with double guard 1 guard outside & 1 guard inside the bank.

Which team will have the most gold pieces in their possession after 4 rounds of play?

2 vs. 6

  • Trainer starts by throwing to player/setter at 2,5.
  • Setter plays ball to attacker at 4.
6-setter defends fully and plays out the rally.

  • block
  • block coverage
  • move without ball
  • switch with center back
variation:

  • attack on 3 and on 2
  • exchange with players