Try These Volleyball Passing Drills With Your Team
Every volleyball coach says it -- "serving and passing is the most important part of this game." With that information, coaches everywhere need to make sure their teams are getting enough practice time to improve in those areas. While just about every practice drill should include some element of serving and passing, here are a few of our favorites.
Volleyball Passing Drill #1 - Butterfly
Category: Warmup, Passing
Butterfly passing is a volleyball passing drill that you might want to do for a few minutes at the beginning of every volleyball practice you ever coach. Players can focus and improve all the passing keys in this activity, and coaches entering balls can help encourage specific types of improvement with different types of tosses.
For a more complete explanation, please visit: https://community.goldmedalsquared.com/c/drills/
Volleyball Passing Drill #2- Serve-Receive Ladder
Category: Passing, Serving, Tournament
This is simply a variation on the split-court serving and passing drill. You split the court in half and play both directions to incorporate four simultaneous games and maximize reps. There are several different scoring formats you can use with this setup, but the basic structure is as follows:
Three positions – server, passer, target. Play for a fixed period of time (for example, 5 minutes), or a fixed number of serves (10 serves) then rotate positions so that each player serves to the other two (and receives serves from the other two).
To "ladder" this drill, simply designate court 1, 2, 3, and 4. The winner of each group moves up a court (to the lowest spot in that group). The loser of each group moves down (to the highest spot in that group). The middle player stays. Ties go to the player who was highest on the ladder to begin the round.
To see more scoring ideas and how to make this a tournament, please visit: https://community.goldmedalsquared.com/c/drills/
Volleyball Passing Drill #3 - Tug-of-War
Category: Passing, Serving, Competitive
Tug of War starts with the score at 5 (this can be changed depending on your athletes). A good pass adds one to the score. A bad pass subtracts one from the score. A missed serve adds one to the score. When the score gets to 10, the passers win. When the score gets to 0, the servers win. At this point, the passers become the new servers, and the servers become the new passers.
For a more complete explanation, please visit: https://community.goldmedalsquared.com/c/drills/
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