The Name For The Bump Set Spike Volleyball Drill is The Pepper Drill

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You Knew Another Name For The Bump Set Spike Volleyball Drill is the Pepper Volleyball Drill, Right?

When a player says "lets play the Bump Set Spike volleyball drill" they're a beginner who's probably had less than 6 months playing experience. An experienced player says
"let's pepper."

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I think its funny when I hear young players say let's play the Bump Set Spike drill.

What is the bump set spike volleyball drill? When a player says "lets play Bump Set Spike" they're a beginner who's probably had less than 6 months playing experience. An experienced player would say "let's go pepper."

Villanova team does the pepper drill during their pre-game warmup. (Char1lieJ) What is the bump set spike volleyball drill? When a player says "lets play Bump Set Spike" they're a beginner who's probably had less than 6 months playing experience. An experienced player would say "let's go pepper."

Because its clear when an inexperienced player who's just learning the game and the warmup drills says to their warmup partner "lets play the Bump Set Spike volleyball drill".

They haven't had enough time to learn the commonly used slang for a lot of the drills and skills done in practices.

An experienced player would just say two words to their warmup partner ...and those two words would be ..."let's pepper."

Bump Set Spike Volleyball Drill vs
The Pepper Volleyball Drill

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The Bump Set Spike volleyball drill which is also called the Pepper warmup drill is one of the first partner drills every high school and club player learns because its done to increase and improve your ability to control the ball using the bump set spike volleyball skills.

Every opportunity you have to touch the ball should be used to contact the ball correctly.

Many players take pepper for granted and since the ball is coming at them slowly, they flake, and ignore using the proper technique.

The Bump Set Spike Volleyball Drill
The Set

The bump set spike volleyball drill is usually started when one pepper partner standing 6-8 feet away from their partner overhand sets the ball to their partner.

The Bump Set Spike Volleyball Drill
The Bump

The second contact is usually a bump or a dig depending on how advanced the players are. These have to be "controlled" contacts meaning the set goes right to the partner, ideally without making the partner move.

The second contact is usually a bump or a dig depending on how advanced the players are.

These have to be "controlled" contacts meaning the set goes right to the partner, ideally without making the partner move.

The pass (the bump) goes right back to the first partner who just set the ball, ideally targeting the ball to fall right on the forehead of the partner so they dont have to move or chase the ball.

In private training sessions I make sure players remember...

To bend your knees so your hips are below the level of the oncoming ball,
Keep a straight platform with shoulders over your knees while digging
although people like to call this a bump its actually a dig to be more precise

The Bump Set Spike Volleyball Drill
The Spike

Hitting the ball with a low elbow in pepper means you increase the chance you’ll hit the ball with a low elbow in hitting warm-ups and continue hitting the ball low in a game.

You want to do your controlled spike hit keeping your elbow high but controlling the ball to your partner instead of hitting the ball straight down the way you would when you are hitting over the net.

This is how you control the ball keeping it in play between the two of you.

Here are a few more tips for you to use during your bump set spike volleyball practice drills.

Practice keeping your elbow high during your pepper hitting armswing.
Imagine you have to clear the height of a net even when you pepper.
Contact the ball at its highest point, always reaching and extending your elbow high-while controlling the ball speed to your partner. Your body remembers every movement you make especially while doing slow controlled movements. Hitting the ball low (by your ear) in pepper will mean there’s a good chance you’ll hit the ball low in hitting warmups and then continue to hit the ball low in a game.

Set goals with your pepper partner.
Determine how many "pass-set-hit" combinations or in this case "bump-set-spike" volleyball contacts you both can do in a row while

controlling the ball
without either partner taking more than one step in any direction

Passing the ball with your legs, setting the ball high giving your partner time to swing and reach high to hit back at you... all these volleyball pepper techniques should be practiced in your pepper warmup so that at game time-- you've already performed these skills so many times that that your muscle memory is automatic and you begin to perform these skills the same way you need to perform them in competition.

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I share alot of individual, partner and easy-to-do volleyball serving drills we do in class with my followers.

Many of these volleyball practice drills you can do at home by yourself or try at your next practice with your teammates.

If you're a B team or JV player trying to make varsity next year...your goal should be to complete 1000 reps a day of at least three of the basic skills on your own...volleyball passing, serving and setting should be at the top of the list.

Bump Set Spike Volleyball:
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What is peppering in volleyball? A pregame or practice ball control drill with two players using pass, set, hit variations while keeping the ball off the floor.
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I have a series of youth volleyball drills you can use to improve your basic ball control skills like passing, setting and controlled hitting.
Three Player Pepper Volleyball Drill Use With Odd Numbers Of Players
Usually in practice there's an even number of players but with an odd number of players you can use the three person pepper volleyball drill as a warmup option.
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One of the first ball control drills volleyball players learn is the pepper drill a warmup drill used to increase and improve your ability to control the ball.
Volleyball Ball Control Drills 5 Ways You Can Practice Basic Skills
These 5 volleyball ball control drills will help you improve your passing setting and hitting technique using reps, wide vision, quickness and ball control

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Serving slang is not just about individual techniques; it also relates to overall game strategy. A coach might instruct a player to serve a "short serve" or a "deep serve" to target specific areas of the opponent's court or exploit weaknesses in their serve receive formation.

Ari, my private training client and I are working specifically on serving on jump float cross court serves ...short to Zone 2

There's so much we work on to get to this point where she can contact the ball with

the same toss height and same toss location
the same armswing speed
the same timing for when her serving hand contacts the ball
the middle of the hand contacting the middle of the ball every single time
getting use to watching her serving hand contact the ball at the highest point of her jump ...before she starts to land
and finally contacting the ball in the precise spot on the ball so it goes where the coach wants the player to put it so in this case ..a short serve in the farthest short right corner on the court also called Zone 2.

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