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Volleyball Games

A collection of volleyball games for use in training (or on their own for fun).

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Game: Win 2 Out-of-System Rallies

This volleyball training game focuses on attacking in a setter-out or out-of-system situation. It can be used to get hitters to make good decisions.

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Game: Dig or Die Back Row Speedball

This is a variation on the Speedball Winners game concept which puts a greater emphasis on aggressive defense, which can raise intensity levels.

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Game: 4 v 4 Out-of-System Winners

This volleyball game is a variation on Winners which channels attacks into certain areas and works a lot on out-of-system offense.

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Scoring System: 25 or reset

Want to work on your team finishing out a set? Here's a game scoring system that works in that direction you can easily adapt to your needs.

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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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Game: Positional winners

There are a number of variations on winners (a.k.a. King/Queen of the court). I started using one that introduces more positional specialization.

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More on servers vs. passers games

Following on some earlier thinking about developing a way to work on serving and passing in a competitive way, I tried a new scoring system for a game.

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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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Opportunities in training on a lowered net

Using a lowered net provides opportunities to work on things in a lower intensity situation and can also be a good warm-up exercise.

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