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Apr 21

The basic basics of passing and setting

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Constant repetition is the key to improvement in volleyball. Here are two basic form drills. The demonstrators (11-12 years old) are in their first season of volleyball.

Passing warmup

Tip: Putting her right leg in front helps her with passing on her left knee. As you can see, it would be impossible to pass on her right knee in this position.

Setting warmup

Tip: Tell the young’un to hold her hands above her head as if she were chugging a 2-liter of pop (you’ll get giggles on this one). Oh, and after she releases: Superman pose (notice her arms straight up as if she were to fly to Smallville and save Lois Lane).

Start each practice with form drills like these to help players get used to the feeling of using their hands and forearms correctly in a controlled environment.

20-30 reps oughtta do it.

Jan 21

Shuffle Challenge-Diagonal Pass

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Ahhh… I can still hear the voice of my coach from my freshman year in college, “Passing and shuffling. Shuffling and passing. Passing and shuffling…” He droned on and on… and on. At the time, (which was usually 7 a.m.) it was extremely annoying. But now (10 years and 14 hours later), it makes sense! Which is why I’m going to tell you about, “Passing and shuffling. Shuffling and passing…”

In this volleyball drill, you have one passer and two tossers.
1. Tossers stand about 15-20 ft apart on the 10-ft line and toss the volleyball toward the opposite corner.
2. The passer will shuffle back and forth and position herself to receive the volleyball on her left knee and pass the ball back to the tosser.
3. After 10 repetitions, rotate positions. Everyone gets a turn!

Note: the passer should be shuffling laterally along the court and it doesn’t hurt to shuffle through the pass.

Alternative drill: Change it up and have the tossers throw the ball straight instead of at angle for Shuffle Challenge-Straight Pass.

Dec 16

Passer’s workout

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Here’s an example of how we like to work our passers out individually.

- Start out with standard platform passing

- Once she’s feeling good about her rhythm, move on to some basic digging technique. Step back, hop forward.

- Then, throw in some serve/receive with a ball cart as the target (this is tough!)

- Practice perfecting the float serve

- Get moving with some “active passing” (see our active passing video)

- Work on playing some defense with a hitter on a box, smashing balls angle

There you have it… enjoy!