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Sample Volleyball Practice Plans
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A 1-hour practice plan

One day in practice we had an hour, half of which we wanted to devote to 6 v 6 game play. Here's the practice plan we developed.

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Volleyball Games
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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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Volleyball Practice Planning
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Some thoughts on practice planning

A recent article on the subject of volleyball practice planning offers some interesting ideas for future training plan development.

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Sample Volleyball Practice Plans
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Training Plan: 11 players, just games

This training session uses cooperative games to warm-up, then moves to small-sided competitive games. The main idea is to get lots of game-like touches.

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Volleyball Drills
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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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Volleyball Games
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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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Game: Pin Hitter Challenge

This game pits the OH and OPP hitters against each other in a kill challenge to work on being able to score against full-team defense.

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Volleyball Games
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Game: 2 vs. 2 with a Player Net

Here's a small-sided volleyball game you can play when you don't have a net. Potentially good for warm-ups, try-outs, or when you have large numbers of players.

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2014-15 Exeter University
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Coaching Log – Nov 3 2014

Missing players forced a focus on skill work rather than team training despite the pending match against one of the league's top teams.

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