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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

One of the first drills every high school and club player learns is the pepper volleyball drill, which is a warmup drill used to increase and improve your ability to control the ball using four of the six basic skills setting, passing, hitting and digging.

We do variations of the Three Player Pepper Volleyball Drill in Warmups in Breakfast Club with Coach April especially when we have an odd number of players.

Concentrate on improving your ball control skills during your pepper drill warm-up.

What you do in pre-game warm-up prepares you for game performance. Practice in pepper how you want to play in the game.

Work on proper setting and serve receive skill, form, and technique when performing pepper during pre-game warm-up.

Every opportunity to play pepper is another opportunity to improve your basic setting and serve receive skills. Take advantage of it.

Three Player Pepper Volleyball Drill Use With Odd Numbers Of Players

Use the three player pepper volleyball drill warmup to

become the best passer on your team

Focus on keeping your partner from moving more than one step in any direction to pass the ball back to you.

The Three Player Pepper Volleyball Drill During Breakfast Club Volleyball Class with Coach April

Practice using excellent technique

during your pepper hitting arm swing keep your elbow high and then follow through with your thumb to thigh

Every opportunity to practice your arm swing makes you a hitter that reaches high for every set.

Imagine clearing the net height even when you pepper. This helps you contact the ball at its highest height.

What Should Your Goals Be For The Three Player Pepper Volleyball Drill?

With your two partners don't play small play big and push each other

You improve faster when you push yourself beyond your comfort zone, land become okay with earning to do things that make you uncomfortable at first

Three Player Pepper Volleyball Drill - Hit, Set and Dig with Carmela, Adlai and Alex

Discipline yourself to stay low in your defensive position, ready to move in any direction just before your partner hits the ball.

Your goal is to be in this low stance before the ball gets to you, not as it is getting to you.

Learn to react quickly and rely on quick reflexes that can control the ball

Then dig a controlled high ball back to your partner without making your partner move more than one step in any direction.

This is what helps you improve your control of the ball.

Narrow your focus so the only thing that you are focused on is the ball.

This will help you increase your concentration and the focus you need to have during tense game moments.

Three Player Pepper Volleyball Drill Use With Odd Numbers Of Players

Three Player Pepper Volleyball Drill with Carm, Cass and Adlai

Playing with a male or someone better or stronger than you makes you a better, stronger, faster player.

Commit to hitting harder at your partner as your ball control skills improve during pepper warm-up.

By hitting harder, you and your partner increase your reactions and ability to dig hard spikes. It also reduces your fear of digging hard hit balls.

Three Player Pepper Volleyball drill with Kate, Adlai and Alex

Do your Pepper drill with a player that's better than you and has much better ball control skills.

Playing with a male or someone better or stronger than you makes you a better, stronger, faster player.

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Follow me on Instagram @coach_apchap to improve your game even faster!

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.

Three Player Pepper Volleyball:
Where Do You Go From Here?

Your three options are:

You can learn more about Drills by visiting the Related Links below.
Follow the suggested reading on our Sitemap page Learning How To Play (Sitemap)
Or visit the pages in the How to Play Volleyball section in the drop down menu at the top of the page to get started.

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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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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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