Coaching drills for volleyball are designed to improve your player's ability to serve, defend and spike the ball. While conditioning drills are important for your player's overall endurance levels, drills that focus on your player's footwork and hitting will help them develop good habits that can be applied to game situations.
Serving Drills
Serving drills are designed to improve your server's accuracy as well as velocity with the ball. While professional players are required to perform an overhand serve, you can start out by teaching your players a basic underhand serve to give them a better feel for the court. As your player's improve, you can perform overhand serving drills that focus on precision, such as "around the world" or the dead fish drill. Both of these drills force your servers to hit the ball to specific locations on the other side of the court. Additional serving drills include serve and receive drills,, and overhand spin drills.
Conditioning Drills
Conditioning drills will help improve your player's endurance levels, making them more powerful at the end of matches. While basic conditioning drills, such as running and sprints, will help your player's endurance, conditioning drills that are specific to volleyball will also improve your player's footwork and on-court positioning. Off the floor is a conditioning volleyball drill that will help your player's get off the floor quickly. Have each player on your team lie flat on the ground in a line. On your whistle, have the first player in line pop-up off the ground and receive a serve from you. Have them pass the ball to a teammate before moving to the end of the line. Other conditioning drills include three-man weaves and off the floor doubles.
Setting Drills
Setting drills are designed to teach your players proper hand placement as well as how to set from different angles. Have each player start by creating a basic triangle with their thumbs and index fingers. According to Volleyball.org, the ideal set point is just above your hairline. From this position, each one of your player's can perform a variety of setting drills. A blocker movement setting drill is ideal for player's on your team looking to adjust their sets to the position of blockers. Other setting drills must be implemented to help improve your setter's ability to set the ball while on the move.
Blocking Drills
In addition to improving your player's blocking abilities, blocking drills will also improve your player's jumping height and technique. Reach and bounce drills are a certain type of blocking drill that improves your player's ability to extend their arms as well as penetrate to the net. One on one blocking drills can improve your player's ability to solo block. In addition to basic blocking drills, you can combine blocking drills with other drills to improve your player's overall game. The net decision drill forces your blocker to decide if he is going to move up for a block or back off the net to perform a pass.
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