Volleyball Drill Name: Ball, Setter, Ball, Hitter

Goal - Help blockers and diggers improve their Ball-Setter-Ball-Hitter eyework.

How to play - Place six players on each side of the net. To start, one side will the the "offense side" and the other side will be the "defense side."

Most commonly, the drill will begin with a coach tossing a ball from the defense side to a coach standing in the back row of the offense side. The digging coach will dig a ball to the setter, and the offense side will then set and spike to the defense side. The players on the defense side go through the BSBH eyework sequence to improve as blockers and diggers.

After a set amount of time, the players can move to new positions on the court.

How to keep score - We recommend that this activity be used as an activity to help your players learn and improve, without score being kept. However, after a certain amount of rallies in that environment you can play a mini-game to help the players implement what they are working on in a competitive situation (for example, the offense side must score 6 points before the defense side scores 4 points). 

Time - It should take about 20-30 minutes to play.

Variations - In the video example attached to this drill, you will notice that the defense side serves every other ball. This type of variation gives serving/passing reps to both teams, while allowing both teams to play a gamelike drill while both teams continue to work on specific areas of emphasis.

Benefits - Very gamelike drill providing serving, passing, setting, spiking, digging, and blocking reps.

Emphasis - Offense and defense.