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Use this guide when you want practice activities that go beyond basic drill work and give players more game-like, decision-rich training.

What the guide helps you do

Good drills do more than keep players busy.

They create useful repetitions, require players to read the game, encourage communication, and help connect individual skills to team play.

This guide gives you 10 adaptable drills and games you can use across a range of levels, from younger teams through more advanced athletes.

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The 10 Essential Volleyball Drills guide includes activities for:

  • warming up with more game-like perception and movement
  • improving serving and passing under changing conditions
  • creating competitive small-sided games
  • adapting familiar structures like Winners for specific training goals
  • building cooperative and competitive rally challenges
  • using scoring systems to create pressure
  • setting team objectives through card-style games

These are not just “run this exactly as written” drills. Each one includes ways to adjust the activity based on your players, numbers, space, and training priorities.

Want to design better drills yourself?

This guide gives you 10 useful activities.

If you want a deeper framework for adapting, evaluating, and creating drills for your own coaching situation, take a look at The Perfect Drill.

It is a short, practical book on how to think about drill design so your activities better match your training goals.

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John is a volleyball coach, performance director, and coach educator with 20+ years of experience across the NCAA (all three divisions plus junior college), university and club volleyball in the UK, professional coaching in Sweden, and juniors clubs. He has also served as a visiting coach with national team, professional club, and juniors programs in multiple countries.

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