Volleyball Defensive Drills You Can Do To Help Your Dig Ball Control
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Volleyball Defensive Drills You Can Do To Help Your Dig Ball Control
3 hitting and digging volleyball defensive drills that you can do at home to help increase your ball control skills when playing defense in the back court.
Learn three new hitting and digging volleyball defensive drills without a net you can do regularly at home or in your next volleyball practice and/or classes.
Making a playable ball inside the ten foot line that a setter can get to.
Keeping the digging platform two inches below belly button level and not swinging the arms but freezing the platform on ball contact so you just redirect hard hits to the intended target
Diggers stay for 3,4,5 rounds in a row
Hitters work on correct hitting form ...contacting the ball high... like they would if they were hitting on the net.
Is it me or does this feel like a video game?
Three Different Hits and Three Digs Volleyball Defensive Drills Without A Net
Three Different Hits and Three Digs
The Libero workout.
Three balls to the target. A hard hit. A tip. A deep ball to the corner to chase down.
Working on...
Libero training digging three types of attacked balls...
digging the hard hit
reading then chasing down the tip while trying to stay on your feet
running down the deep shot to the far Zone 5 corner while trying to stay on your feet
digging a settable ball (high in the court as near to Zone 3 - middle front- as possible) if not possible then to the middle of the court
getting comfortable covering the entire zone 5 left back area of the court while taking only 3 - 4 steps to get to each ball
reading fast and reacting fast while controlling our body parts so we can control the ball
"The Two on Two" Volleyball Defensive Drills Without A Net
Volleyball Defensive Drills "The Two on Two" Volleyball Drill
"The Two on Two" Volleyball Drill
Working on.....Line and cross court digging reps
Hitters are in zone 4 and zone 2.
Two diggers in zone 5 and zone 6.
Two targets catching the balls while standing on the other side of the hitters ball court
First Zone 5 digger digs the line ball hit by hitter in Zone 4. (Brandon in turquoise shirt)
They dig ball to target close to Coach Brandon basket.
At the same time hitter in zone 2 hits to digger in Zone 6 who digs the ball back to the target standing in zone 3/2.
Then digger in zone 5 does a quarter turn and faces hitter in Zone 2 who hits at them to dig the ball to their target standing in zone 3/2.
At the same time digger in zone 6 does a quarter turn to their left and digs the ball cross court that was hit from the hitter in zone 4 (Coach Brandon).
Hitters don’t hit until they have the eye contact of the digger .
Diggers working on staying low even during their turn as they prep to dig the next ball
Diggers working on target practice
Diggers work on keeping hips below the level of the oncoming ball
Do for time or do after setting a goal for perfect digs to the target
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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.
I gathered a collection of the dig volleyball drills we do in training that I explain how to do at home or in practice to my Pinterest and Youtube followers.
These four types of volleyball drills for digging turn up the heat and puts the digger under pressure to dig a playable ball that the setter can run a play with
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We do alot of progressions for volleyball digging drills in our boot camp classes to cover different scenarios from hard hits to balls you need to chase down.
These six drills to improve volleyball skills in digging and defense technique are exercise we do in boot camp classes and trainings to improve ball control.
Want to know what some good digging drills for volleyball diggers are? Here are four fun drills that I do with liberos and hitters who privately train with me.
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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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