The Best Drills for Beginning Volleyballers

The Best Drills for Beginning Volleyballers


When teaching beginners how to play volleyball, the best place to start is with the basics. Get to know the ball, learn how to hold it. Learn how to stand correctly, and keep your eye on the ball. Learning to spike is something they all want to learn. It is not as easy as it looks; they soon find out. They must have good hand eye coordination. That can be worked on with practice drills.


One player can toss the ball to the other player who will pass it. They should do this for a number of times and then change rolls. Players can focus on passing others using the correct passing method. Once they are comfortable with this they can start peppering the ball by passing it off to each other.


Another drill that is good is to let each player have a ball and pick a spot on a wall to hit. Throw the ball and try to hit the spot. They can practice using correct arm swing method. These types of drills really work well for building hand eye coordination. It also will help them to build their confidence with each skill that they master.

The Best Drills for Beginning Volleyballers

Beginners can do many of these exercises alone which will let them be able to practice even at home. Teach the players the correct blocking form. Then have them practice by doing block jumps in front of a wall. Have them begin by standing in front of a wall in a blocking pose. Then have them jump up and touch the wall as high as they can using good blocking position. Then when they come back down, they should land in blocking position.


Next have them practice setting drills in groups of two. Have them set back and forth to each other over the net. This will teach them to maintain the ball in play as long as they can. The object is to keep the ball off the ground. Then they can also practice serving to each other, taking turns as they go. These are just a few to get you started.

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