Your job as a volleyball coach is to help your players learn and master volleyball fundamentals as well as learn the general principles of offense and defense. One of the most effective ways to teach players these concepts is through drills at practice. Drills use repetitive actions to help reinforce basic principles to players which they can recall and use during actual game play.
Pepper Drill
One of the most basic volleyball drills, the pepper drill is an effective way for you to have your players warm up and practice basic volleyball moves like digging, setting and hitting. Divide your team into groups of two, each group with a ball. Players should stand about 15 feet apart and hit, set or dig the ball back and forth between each other without dropping the ball. Players should choose their type of shot based on where and how the ball is approaching them. For instance, a shot coming toward them at a low angle is a dig. A ball coming over the head should be set or spiked. Have players pepper the ball back and forth for a set amount of time. To make it competitive, you can award points or recognize the team able to keep the ball in the air the longest.
20 Ball
Making sure your players are properly conditioned helps ensure they don't run out of gas in the late stages of an important match. To help players develop solid conditioning, try the 20 ball drill. Stand just in front of the net with one player on same side of the court in a defensive position. Roll a ball in any direction. The player must run and touch the ball before it leaves the court area. As soon as the player touches the ball, roll another one. The player must touch 20 balls before they leave the area of the court before rotating to the back of the line.
Dead Fish
Having some fun in your practice while teaching fundamentals is always a plus. The dead fish drill reinforces proper serving skills in a competitive way. Divide your team in two teams on either side of the court. Players must line up behind the service line. Each player takes turns serving the ball over the net. If a player misses a serve, she must go to the other side of the court and lie down like a dead fish. The only way she can get up is if a teammate serves a ball over the net that hits her. The team with the fewest number of dead fish after a certain period of time wins the drill.
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