
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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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.

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.

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.

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

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

This pepper variation expands on the over-the-net version to allow for more players to be included, potentially allowing for increased complexity.

This is fairly simple group ball-handling and movement drill (though with room for increased complexity and/or intensity) that could be used as a warn-up.

This volleyball team pepper drill variation is good for working on both defense and controlled attack across the net.

This is a combination volleyball passing and setting drill, which can also incorporate controlled serving and/or hitting.

This small-group volleyball ball-handling drill has an added dimension which forces players to have teammate awareness and focus on their next duty.