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Hitting and Digging Drills for Volleyball That Help You Play Better

Having problems hitting a ball over the net or digging a ball to your setter? Our hitting and digging drills for volleyball help you improve spiking and digging.

Hitting and Digging Drills For Volleyball: The 'Hit and Dig" volleyball drill is used in warmups to improve hitting technique and digging technique skills.

We do alot of versions of basic drills like the warm up "Hit and Dig" drills in our practices, classes and semi-private volleyball training.

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Usually done in warmups, I adapt this drill to use in

one on one
two on one
two on two drills

to improve hitting technique, hand placement on the ball and digging technique and platform placement skills.

'The Classic'
Digging and Hitting
Drills For Volleyball

Jacob the hitter works on the Hit and Dig drill with Adlai the digger in Breakfast Club class.

They're working on..

Reaching high with a quick arm rotation

Contacting the top third of the ball with flat palm and wide fingers that control where you want the ball to go and so the ball travels from high to low (stays in the court)
Practicing hitting line ... working on contacting the ball in front of your hitting shoulder
Maintaining a loose shoulder with a slightly bent elbow but contact is made with elbow ABOVE the level of the ear
Hips and shoulders stay open to the wall on the right until after the toss. After contacting the ball arm finishes downward motion with the thumb to thigh

The "Hit and Dig" drill is one of the basic hitting and digging drills for volleyball we do in our practices, classes and semi-private volleyball training.

"Coach on Three"
Drills For Volleyball
Digging and Hitting

Coach on Three Drill

Defensive digging drill with 3 groups of 3 players.

One group digs
One group shags balls positioning themselves around the court they keep balls from interrupting the drill.
One group is target for diggers to dig to. .

Establish a goal a number the digging group of 3 as to get that many balls to the target without making the target move...to finish the drill. Or.... go for time...

Hitting coach should remember to hit from different zones in the front court so the diggers work on platform angles, reading and believing what they see.

Drills For Volleyball
How To Touch More Balls When You're Digging

Keeping your platform arms a ball’s distance away from your body and
putting your hands together once you’ve landed in your adjusted defensive position

is the key to touching more balls hit right at you and controlling those balls so they’re more likely to reach their target .

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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.

From Lady Vol to Legend: Coach April Honored At UTK Champions Weekend

Lady Vol volleyball legend and record holder Coach April Chapple a University of Tennessee, Knoxville Hall of Fame Inductee, 3-time All American, 3-time SEC Champion, SEC Tournament MVP, 2-time All SEC Team is celebrated with her 1984 SEC champion teammates at Neyland Stadium during Champions Weekend on November 1-2, 2024.

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Tennessee Hall of Fame inductee, Coach April Chapple is

the first First Round Draft Pick for the first American pro indoor women's league
named to the first First Team All-Pro team for Major League Volleyball in USA volleyball history
former USA National team member
one of the few American women players named as an Italian Pro League D-I Championship Finalist, Italian Cup Finalist and Cup of Cups Tournament Finalist

April Chapple The first First round Draft Pick For Major League Volleyball the first American Women's Pro League Honored At Athlete Unlimited Pro Volleyball Match

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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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Tommi Stockham All Big West Conference sophomore former Coach April Chapple private client 3 years

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