Volleyball drills for technique warming-up
Aim: Players Setup from 1st time + targeted attack.
- T plays ball high over the net in the attack zone.
- Sv enters from pos.1 and sets up for -or backwards.
- A attacks on the mat/goal.
Expand : Block, middle attack, ...
Stand opposite each other in pairs:
- 1 person has 2 tennis balls, the other 2 volleyballs.
- The person with the volleyballs throws one ball high to the other person, to 1 of his 2 hands.
- That person has to throw the tennis ball in that hand low back to the other person
- Always the same person who performs the first action
Stand opposite to each other in pairs:
- 1 person has a tennis ball, the other a volleyball
- Volleyball is replayed in 2 contact, high or low
- The tennis ball is then replayed in 1 contact, low if the volleyball comes high, high if the volleyball comes low
Per 2 opposite each other:
- Variation on previous exercise
- If the volleyball is played high, it must be replayed directly in 1 contact (tennis ball is played low at the same time).
- If the volleyball is played low, it will be replayed in 2 contacts
Per 2 opposite each other:
- Play ball as long as possible towards each other with only the arms.
- Two balls at once
- Players at position 5 and 1 on two sides of the field, also 2 playmakers.
- Ball from position 5 to server to position 1, to position 5 other side and so on.
- Players run after their ball, except for the playmakers.
- 2 agility exercises
- 2 reaction exercises
- 1.5 minutes per round
Equipment:
- Per group 1 ball
- Per group at least 4 players, preferably 5 players.
Short description picture:
- 1b plays ball to SV.
- Who gives Set up to 1a.
- 1a enters field to defend later.
- 1a calmly attacks to 2a/b who defend.
- The player not defending runs to the net.
- SV gives Setup to 2 who in turn calmly attacks 1.
- Then again. 1b goes under the net to help defend.
Variation:
- With 4 players the matching 2 to the next attack is matching 1.
- Quiet attack alternate with prod balls.
Setup:
- In pairs, place the players in a row facing the wall.
- Per pair 1 tennis ball.
Exercise:
- Player 1 stands closest to the wall and begins the exercise by throwing the ball against the wall.
- Player 2 catches the ball.
- Player 1 meanwhile runs back through the right side and then catches the ball that player 2 just threw against the wall.
- Repeat at least 20 times.
- Make the exercise more difficult by having the ball caught in a hat.
Preparation:
- Half Field.
- Place hats on the back line with a tennis ball on top.
- Place equal number of hats at the net.
Exercise:
- Have the players run with the tennis ball to the overlying hat.
- Have them put the ball down on the hat there for 2 seconds.
- Pick it up again and run back to the starting hat.
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.
- Spikeball is a fun game you play with a net in the middle and a small ball.
- 2 teams of 2 players play against each other.
- Everything is allowed in terms of technique. This is easily adapted to volleyball, where after 3x games the ball may be played into a hoop.
- After that it is the other team's turn.
- It is a 360 degree field, so through the hoop the ball may go in any direction.
- Always play the game 2 against 2.
- Vary the level of difficulty for the players. For example: catch 1x for C youth, do not smash, and so on.
Play in pairs from approx. 3m line to 7m line.
Net player always plays up 1x for himself, then back again.
Back player plays back in 1x and then does for himself successively:
- 5x Turn around on own spot.
- 5x To the back line, tap with 1 hand and return to 7m.
- 5x Sit on your buttocks and stand up again.
If the ball goes wrong: Start again at the last unsuccessful series of 5.
Change after 15x.
First round overhead, 2nd round underhand.
- 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.
Tap game with 1 ticker. The rest must try to catch the stretch bands and eventually the tennis ball along two sides of the square.
- If the ticker ticks you, you must put the stretching band back and try again.
- The game can be made more difficult by, for example, enlarging the square or removing those who are tapped from the game.
