Volleyballexercises for technique passing / defense / reception
- 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.
- The players stand in a diamond in the field.
- On the other side of the field, the hoops are in the corners.
- The trainer/trainer serves easily to the other side.
- On the other side, they try to pass 3 times and then try to drop down into the hoop.
- 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.
Organization:
- Field A.
- Players lined up at 6 meters and 1 player on p2
- Reserve on p2
- Field B:
- Trainer with ball carrier at 3m
- Players on p1 and P5 and reserve on p6
Execution:
- Trainer throws ball up high.
- Player on p6 passes to P2 gets setup on 3m line and plays the BH to p5 or p1
- Underhand play up and catch at Trainer.
- Run: P6 to spare P2; P2 to spare P6
- P6 takes the place of P1 or P5 and these go to field A P6
- Divide the team into two groups and have them form two rows facing each other on the 3-meter line.
- Have the players play over the net and then walk around the cone to join the other group.
- On 1 side, parallel to the sideline, place a speed ladder and before joining the line, have the players do a drill through the ladder.
- On the other side, place pawns where they have to slalom, turn around.
- Importantly, the ball should not fall to the ground, communication is important.
- Optionally add a penalty if the ball falls to the ground. Head roll, Back roll.
- First with underhand throwing and catching - then overhand. Catch and push change to toss up and over-key.
Field with 8 players.
- Per 2 players, 1 of which has the ball.
- Players without ball stand in the middle.
- Players with ball each stand in a corner of the field.
- When TR says yes, players without ball move sideways low to the side of the field so they are in front of their teammate
- Receive a pass from the players from the corners and key back.
- Then they walk back to the center of the field.
