Volleyball drills for technique passing / defense / reception
- Serve from position 1 to position 5.
- There is a passer who passes to a playmaker, if he catches the ball within 2 steps, you get 1 point.
- Faulty service is point off.
- Which team gets to the 15 first, if this takes too long, you can reduce the number.
- Server becomes passer, passer becomes catcher, catcher becomes server. passing on own side.
- Playing the ball with overhand technique when the ball reaches this height.
- Giving the ball sufficient height.
- Playmaker may catch the ball.
Exercise to learn to play with straight arms on the underhand pass.
A common mistake is for the passer to play the ball with bent arms so that it goes backwards.
A common mistake is for the passer to play the ball with bent arms so that it goes backwards.
- Focus on stretching the arms while passing
- Practice playing the ball with sufficient height
- Repeat the exercise regularly to improve technique
Positions:
- Trainer at mid forward, to throw to, but do keep space to net so player can pass behind.
- 1 Player without ball on Setter spot = 1st catcher.
- Player is the passer who will pass 10 good balls
- Other players with ball next to trainer for passing and catching
- The exercise runs best with about 5-6 players.
Organization:
- Passer is given balls successively thrown at:
- P1, P6, P5, P4, P2 regardless of whether the ball is good => through to next position.
- Then balls at random position, trainer determines difficulty, until there have been 5 good passes.
- After 5th good pass => Player quickly to P6, ready on front feet.
- Last pass comes from P6 , on a 'beaten' ball.
- Continue until there is a 6th good pass.
Other player:
- Always give ball to trainer and straight to setter spot to catch off.
- Ball not good, quickly retrieve and join the line.
- All players have a ball.
- Divide the group into two - maximum 4 to 5 players per group.
- Near the net is the ball pit.
Exercise per group:
- Play up overhead in front of yourself and keep playing.
- Slowly move towards the net, keep playing up.
- Overhand: Play up high, quickly get under the ball, stand still and then play.
- At the net: => play the ball IN the ball pit. The distance does not matter.
- Ball on the ground => start again from the back line.
Same exercise can be done with underhand play up to the net + play IN the ball box.
For the better players there can be a third round:
- Ball bin on the back line of the other field, players must now pass the net. Play over it, themselves under it. Underhand or overhead no longer matters, as long as the back line is crossed.
Practice on defense, technical attack and drop balls.
- Practice defensive techniques.
- Improve technical attack techniques.
- Practice with drop balls.
- 1 side with block.
- 2 servers
- 1 passer
- 1 catcher
- Thick mat obstructs passer's view, requiring passer to focus on ball trajectory.
- Passer passes to catcher who rolls on to serveers.
- Roll through after 10 balls
- 3 players in the middle play overhand for themselves.
- 2 players outside also play overhand for themselves.
- The outside players run around it.
- And pass in between.
- 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.
- Trainer brings the ball into play towards the passer by throwing/striking.
- Of the two passers, the one who claims the ball will play the ball to 1 of the 2 SVs.
- SV gives long setup towards attack.
- Attacker hits ball straight through and retrieves ball, ball in ball box, joins passers.
PASS -> SV
SV -> ATTACK
ATTACK -> PASS
SV -> ATTACK
ATTACK -> PASS
Starting position: 3 players on red side, rest on blue side.
- Blue side always starts, with OH service.
- Tennis OH directly over the net => approximately 3 meter line.
- After Tennis outside the posts to the other side.
- Red players: place ball in center of court where around 3 meters the blue players are.
- Blue players: Place ball deliberately left or right of the center of the field where the red team is standing.
- Red side: thinking, what is your next action?
- Played left => Red player is going to do exercise 1
- Played right => Red player is going to do exercise 2.
Examples of exercises:
- Mat => make roll
- Pawns => shuffle through them
- Foot ladder with assignment.
- Bad Ball => pick up in bin and join the other team.
- 2-pairs
- 1 with ball, 1 without ball lies on the ground
- series of 30 seconds with 30 seconds rest
- At start signal, player lying down stands up, gets ball thrown to him.
- Player plays back overhand and goes back to the ground.
- Again, explosive up, get ready, play and return to ground.
- 30 seconds rest
- Next series of 30 but pass underhand.
- Then change and start again.