Volleyball drills for technique passing / defense / reception
- 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
- 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.
- Two teams of up to 4 people, 1 ball.
- On both sides 2 persons in the field, other persons behind the back line.
Goal: score in 1x in the other field, inside the lines.
Rules:
- Start with simple underhand service
- We play underhand tennis, so in 1x over the net.
- Difficult ball may bounce 1x, but then the ball must be returned with: one hand, one foot or the head.
If a mistake is made, the player leaves the court, goes to the back line, and a new player takes over.
Organization:
- Players without ball on P2, P3, P4, P5/6 and P1/6.
- Other players with ball on P6
Execution:
- Start with throwing, tossing or punting.
- Later BH from the net and OH from the backfield.
- From P6 pass the ball to P4 and run after it.
- From P4 and P3 move the ball to P5/6 and P1/6 respectively and backward.
- From P5/6 and P1/6 to P3 and P2 ball chase.
- At P2 catch and connect to P6.
- 2 groups of 4 to 5 kids on half a field.
- 2/3 on the serve. 1 player on the other side of the net for the pass. 1 player at the net.
- There is a serve and the passer plays the ball to the player at the net.
Who catches the ball and throws the ball to the serve. - The passer remains standing for 10 balls. The two players at the serve take turns hitting.
- After 10 balls, turn to pass.
Warm-up exercise focusing on neat passing and moving:
- 2 players with a ball stand about 4 meters apart.
- Opposite them, 2 twos/threes stand without ball.
- The players with ball play to the person opposite, this person plays the ball back cleanly and joins the other row shuffling.
- Carry this through at a fast pace, making sure players are actively moving.
- 3 people in the serve pass at 5, 6 and 1 + 1 reserve behind the court.
- 1 playmaker starting at 2/3.
- The rest with ball on the opposite side.
- Serve on the passers, bring pass to position 2/3.
- Then the playmaker plays a ball to position 4 where a basket is set up.
- Ball played in an acceptable ball trajectory against the basket is 1 point, ball directly into it is 2 points.
- Push the team to actually go for as many points as possible.
- You can choose to have a fixed playmaker, or rotate. In that case the passer --> playmaker --> server --> reserve --> passer.
- With a large group you can use 2 sides, with a small group you can also cut the number of passers.
