As a volleyball coach, you want to teach your players to love the game of volleyball and to encourage laughter and enjoyment of the sport. While you can't make every drill or skill exciting, you can purposely incorporate fun drills into your practice. Think of it as a reward system. Tell your players that for every minute of all-out effort that they give to fundamental drills, they will be rewarded with a minute of fun.
Queen of the Court
Queen of the Court moves players on and off the court quickly in a 3-on-3 game situation. Players have to stay aware and keep moving to move to the Queen's Court and to remain there. Because this game incorporates challenge, competition and teamwork, once you've introduced the game, most players will beg to play time and again.<br /><br /><br /><br />Start three players on one side of the court, designated the "Queen's Court." Three more players start on the opposite side of the net, in the challenger's court. Remaining players stand off court in a single-file line.<br /><br /><br /><br />Toss a free ball onto one side of the court. The receiving team has to pass, set and hit the ball over to the opponent's court, which has to receive the ball and return it. Game play continues until one of the teams makes a mistake. If the team on the challenger's court makes a mistake, it rotates off and gets back in the challenger's line and the next three waiting players rotate onto the challenger's court. If the queen's court team makes a mistake, it rotates off the court into the challenger's line, the challenging team rotates onto the queen's court, and the next three players rotate onto the challenger's court. ??With only three players on each team, each player has a lot of room to cover, and as the coach, you can make them work for every free ball. You can also set up the drill so that each team has to touch the ball three times before it can pass over the net, or you can require a technical bump-set-spike sequence for every play. This allows you to make the drill as hard or as easy as you want.
Pile Up
Pile Up requires players to react quickly, move with agility and hit the ball accurately. Start the drill with two players at a time, but as your team improves, you can add more players to the mix.<br /><br /><br /><br />Line your team up into two single-file lines behind the service line on one side of the court. Stand with a basket of balls on the opposite side of the court. The first two players from each line start on the court. Instruct them to lie down, "piling up" on each other, so that one player is laying across the body of the other player. When they're in position, serve a ball onto their court. When you serve the ball, the players can untangle themselves. The player on the bottom of the two-man pile must get to the served ball, passing it to the other player. The other player sets the ball to the passer, who then hits it over the net. Those two players shag the ball and return it to the basket, while the next two players rotate onto the court. <br /><br /><br /><br />Players will find this drill extremely challenging, but they'll probably end up laughing through much of the drill because of the semi-awkward pile-up and subsequent untangling.
Dead Fish
Dead Fish works on serving accuracy and speed. Your players will love having the opportunity to play target practice with their own teammates, and they'll hone their skills in the process.<br /><br /><br /><br />Split the team up into groups of six. Have one group start as the "dead fish," lying on one side of the volleyball court. Once they've laid down and gotten situated, they can no longer move. The next group of six lines up behind the opposite serving line, each with a ball, so that they are serving to the court that the dead fish are lying on. On your whistle, each of the servers can serve her ball to the far court, aiming for one of the dead fish. If any serve hits a fish, the serving team receives a point. After each serve, the server must shag her own ball and return to the serving line to serve again. This continues for two minutes. The serving team then rotates to become the dead fish, the dead fish rotate off and become either the serving team or wait while another team rotates to serve. After each team has had the opportunity to serve, the team with the greatest number of accumulated points wins the game.
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