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Passing Drills Volleyball Players Do To Improve Ball Control Skills

These passing drills volleyball players do at home to improve ball control skills also help to increase your focus, concentration and to get 1000 reps done.

How many things do you need to do before passing a free ball to your passing partner while keeping good passing technique AND getting the ball to your targets head.. without making them move? Check out some of the passing drills volleyball players I train do to work on improving ball control skills.

Today I want to talk about my collection of passing drills volleyball players do on my club teams, semi private training classes, as homework to do at home and Breakfast Club college volleyball summer training sessions.

Katelyn starts in this video in the left back serve receive position also known as zone 5, for a certain amount of time or a certain amount of reps and then we move to middle back and do the same and then right back before moving on to the next drill.

This simple server vs passer drill is one of the passing drills I do with my club volleyball players, clients and college volleyball players that I train, done to improve ball control skills and to improve their ability to get the ball to the target consistently from anywhere on the court.

In the video below I'm doing a more advanced version of the server vs passer drill using a controlled serve that I aim to various areas on the court and Brooklyn one of my long time clients and club player who now is a college senior libero at a Cal State school in California has to read my body language and move to where she thinks I'm going to serve and still get the ball to the target.

Watch as Brooklyn, my college libero in this passing drill where she has to read where my served ball is going to be and moving her feet quickly to get as close to the ball as possible then creating and freezing her passing platform when contacting the ball which keeps the ball in the air longer before it gets to the target.

Passing Drills Volleyball Partners Do To Improve Communication

These types of passing drills volleyball players do in my practices can only be done if your ball control skills are on point. That means if you can repeatedly pass to the target you are aiming for…without making them move, then these are some advanced drills you can do to further improve or test your ball control.

Can you pass two balls at a time? This is one of the passing drills volleyball players do which forces you to pass the ball right to the target but you need to talk and call the ball which helps you and your intended target focus on what's coming towards you and what's coming towards them.

What else can you do while passing to help you improve your passing skills?

While you're working on getting the ball to your intended target you should also be talking and communicating to your teammates and target, especially if its your setter, which helps you focus on meeting your goal of getting the ball to your target.

To do the passing drills volleyball liberos and defensive specialists need to do they need to create a good passing platform by pressing both wrists together without breaking them apart no matter how hard or easy the serve, making ball contact above the wrists and below the elbows.

How do you move to the next level, from JV to varsity or from varsity to college as a good passer?

One of the big differences between a JV player and a varsity player besides the ability to control the ball is the ability to play the game at a faster speed while still maintaining ball control and accuracy.

In this drill the players are working on

team communication
problem solving
quick decision making
listening (This is huge! When you play on a team)
improves your trusting skills all while maintaining good form and proper technique

You can do this with three friends or teammates. Try it and show us how it goes.

The trick is …figuring out together.…who’s going to lead and who’s going to follow ..all while keeping the ball under control and using good technique.

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Four Player Cross Court Passing

When I do this drill I have my players do all their talking and decision making….while passing the ball.

They have to keep passing the ball while doing their problem solving.

Let me repeat, before getting to this point you need to make sure you can pass the ball to the intended target over and over again without making the target move.

From here we took our partner passing drill I talked about up another level in our passing skills progression.

After warming up as usual with normal partner passing…with the person in front of them, they then in a group of four had to pass clockwise to the person on their right.

Then when I call “cross court”…the players had to decide when they’d switch partners in mid drill and start passing with the partner across from them.

Creating a Flat Platform for Contact: Keep hands and wrists pressed together with the fist of one hand inside the other hand while thumbs of both hands point down to the ground.

Synchronized Passing Drills Volleyball Players Do In my Sessions

My synchronized serving and passing drills are a way that I get all of my servers to move their upper and lower body serving technique together so that everyone is doing the same thing.

Everyone should be contacting the ball at the same time, while delivering the ball with a controlled serve..to the same area on the opposing court.

If someone has a slow arm swing or drops their elbow on their way to contacting the ball...they quickly see what it takes to speed up their arm swing. Why? Because if this drill is done correctly when two players swing at the same time and contact the ball at the same time, it will sound like one player is contacting the ball.

But if they aren't its clear that one player needs to speed up their arm swing and contact the ball correctly the way their partner is doing it.

It's tougher to do the same thing on the other side when synchronized passing.

As a passer of course you're watching the ball come over the net as it comes toward you, since both serves should be similar in height and pace, both passers should be seeing the same thing at the same time and ideally move to the ball at the same time in the same way.

That's in a perfect world and what we are trying to do when all things are done well. No one is perfect right?

While looking at the ball each passer is also using their peripheral vision to watch the ball but still “seeing” and feeling what their teammate on the right and on the left are doing…..all while maintaining good form and proper technique.

Just like in the previous video, we are still working on

team communication
problem solving and
quick decision making but there’s a bigger emphasis on the next three
listening
building
trusting

Passing Drills Volleyball Players Do To Improve Ball Control Skills. Watch as Christian watches the ball as it moves toward him before he uses his platform to contact the ball.

There’s one more important thing we are working on and that’s staying calm and controlled in a chaotic situation.

Passing is done when you hold both wrists together and with both thumbs side by side and pointing to the ground as you contact the ball on the forearms of both arms. (April Chapple)

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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.

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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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former USA National team member
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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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