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Volleyball Drills

Explanations and descriptions of volleyball drills, with indications of the level(s) they are best suited for and how they can be adapted for different circumstances.

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Cooperative vs. competitive for games and drills

Both cooperative and competitive games and drills have their uses in volleyball practice. And maybe so does a third type: cooperative-competitive.

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Shifting from cooperative to competitive

We often look for ways to make things competitive in training. When doing that, though, make sure you think about the potential outcomes of the scoring.

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A reasonable hitters on boxes vs blockers set-up

I'm not a huge fan of having blockers working against hitters on boxes for multiple reasons, but this version is better than most I've seen.

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Drill: 3 v 3 All-Touch Transition & Attack

This is a good small-sided game-play exercise that gets every player lots of touches and works especially on transition hitting.

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Working on attacking the block in games and drills

Here's something you can do to help work on your hitters becoming better at attacking the block rather than just trying to hit around it.

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Drill: 1-2 Serve & Pass

This drill allows passers to work on receiving hard serves, and servers on serving them, but without lots of missed serves leaving passers standing around.

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Drill: 2 vs. 0, or 2-Player Over-the-Net Pepper

This pepper variation introduces playing the ball over the net, which increases the game-like element and movement and puts added pressure on ball-handling.

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Drill: 14-Player Serve-Pass-Hit

This volleyball drill gets a lot of players active on one court working on serving, passing, setting and hitting - and potentially blocking and defense.

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Volleyball Coaching Concept – Second Chance

The second chance idea can be a very useful developmental idea in volleyball training, both in games and in drills.

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