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Volleyball Passing Drills for Beginners For Players To Do At Home

These volleyball passing drills for beginners focus primarily on setters and non setters who need to take the ball over their head.

You improve your passing skills by using some of these volleyball passing drills for beginners to increase your ability to pass well-placed tough or high speed serves to the target, which we use repeatedly in our practices and my semi-private training sessions. (Ralph Arvesen photo)You improve your passing skills by using some of these volleyball passing drills for beginners to increase your ability to pass well-placed tough or high speed serves to the target, which we use repeatedly in our practices and my semi-private training sessions. (Ralph Arvesen photo)



Volleyball Passing Drills For Beginners can be done daily with a goal of at least 250 - 500 reps of various drills to keep your technique and accuracy sharp!

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Volleyball Passing Drills For Beginners 
Different Ways To Do The Wall Passing Drill


After you've practiced against the wall for a bit, then start your first count of 25 with your right foot slightly forward. 

Once finished then go again this time with your left foot slightly forward. 

When you've finished with that take two steps back and repeat the above, but further away from the wall. 


My tips on How to do wall passing drills...

Volleyball wall passing and wall setting drills can be done daily at home with a goal of at least 250 - 500 reps of various drills to keep your

  • passing or setting technique, 
  • angled platform work, 
  • ball contacting skills and 
  • control of the ball.....extremely sharp!

Pick a brick, a specific spot on the wall or mark a big X in chalk on a wall or use a basketball net or backboard ...no matter what you decide to use as your target... anybody walking by.... should be able to see exactly where the spot is that you are aiming for EVERY...single....time .⁠

Do 3 to 5 sets of 100... five feet from the wall ....then side step two feet and repeat. Then step back and repeat.⁠

Complete 300 to 500 passing repetitions




You are still working on:

  • Passing the ball to the target on the wall as many times in a row as possible and stopping and restarting when you don't
  • Avoid swinging your arms when you pass even though you are further away from your target
  • Being low enough so that your hips stay below the level of the oncoming ball 
  • Shifting your weight from your back foot to your front foot, as needed, to get the ball to the target on the wall and back to you




Here are some volleyball drills for youth that you can do at home or in practice with a friend or teammate you are working out with at home or on their own or even during an open gym at your school.

Watch as Kenny and Jaylen work on controlling the ball to a consistent spot on the wall and then control the ball to themselves, then finally they control the ball to each other...repeatedly. 


Volleyball Passing Drills For Beginners
How To Improve Your Volleyball Passing Skills Against Tough Servers





You improve your passing skills by using some of these volleyball passing drills for beginners to increase your ability to pass well-placed tough or high speed serves to the target, which we use repeatedly in our practices and my semi-private training sessions.





In order to do this,

  • once you get used to passing balls thrown at you
  • then easy served balls aimed AT you
  • then you progress to tough high speed balls

served from the opposing court in practice. 






Volleyball Passing Drills For Beginners
3 Partner Volleyball Passing Group Drill


Let's get into the specifics as to how you would do this with your teammates in practice. 

  • Form groups of 3 on one half court with a server, a target, and a passer.

The server is working on performing correct serving technique and consistently serving the ball to the target down the line. 

The passer is working on performing the correct passing technique and passing consistently to the target.

The target catches the ball and bounces it back to the server after the server has completed their serve.

The court is divided into thirds and in each third there’s a group of three with a server a passer and a target.

In serving warmups the server is aiming to serve between the chest and belly button of the passer. 

Working on 

  • Contacting the ball in the same place every time to get the ball to go to the same place

In passing warmups working on

  • watching the server’s body language then
  • tracking the ball all the way into your platform
  • Controlling body parts so you can control the ball
  • Working to finish your movement to the ball and footwork BEFORE passing it (fast feet)

Figuring out how much to angle the platform to get the ball to the target.

How low is low in your passing stance?

How low do you need to go to keep your hips below the level of the ball when contacting it?






Working on

Working on


Volleyball Passing Drills For Beginners Working on passing from your lower position without standing up during the pass. Working on starting position with hands extended straight out in front without hyper bent elbows .. because as the serve gets tougher.. all you have time to do... is put your hands together...good servers will not give passers time to straighten elbows before putting hands togetherVolleyball Passing Drills For Beginners Working on passing from your lower position without standing up during the pass. Working on starting position with hands extended straight out in front without hyper bent elbows .. because as the serve gets tougher.. all you have time to do... is put your hands together...good servers will not give passers time to straighten elbows before putting hands together

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Volleyball Passing Drills For Beginners
Three Servers vs One Passer


Three servers line up on the opposing court.

I like to stagger the servers so

  • one is behind the service line
  • one a few feet inside the service line and
  • one server usually the most cross court server is at half court. 

Volleyball Passing Drills For Beginners
How To Do The
Three Servers vs One Passer

Passers Get Served Three Balls In a Row

The first server in Zone 1 serves the ball first all the time, followed by the second server in Zone 6 and the third server that's standing at half court between Zone 5 and Zone 4. 

I stagger the servers in this way on the opposing court so that the passer has some balls coming from behind the service line, just like what happens in the game, but the remaining two balls come from a shorter distance away.

This means the balls get to the passer a lot faster,

  • giving them less time to read and react to the oncoming serve
  • forcing them to perform the correct passing technique quickly. 




In this drill

I like for servers to keep a certain rhythm so the passer isn’t waiting long between reps... this way you can make quick tweaks to your passing technique while creating muscle memory faster.

Servers working accuracy and technique and will serve 5 rounds serving to the left back passer

The server switches with passer

5 rounds serving to middle back.        -Switch passers with server

5 rounds serving to right back
-Switch passer with server

5 rounds serving left front to Zone 4
-Switch passer with server

5 rounds serving middle front to Zone 3.
-Switch passer with server

5 rounds serving right front to Zone 2 
-Switch passer with server


Volleyball Passing Drills For Beginners
One Passer vs Server
Deep Serve Technique





There are two techniques you can use to pass the deep serve. 


Volleyball Passing Drills For Deep Serves: Back Pedal Quickly With Fast Feet


Sierra Leone is reading and reacting quickly using "fast feet" or quick footwork to move deeper in the court beating the ball to the spot she anticipates it’s going land...





Then she stays in her low passing position and being patient enough... not to rise up but let that ball come down where she can control it. 


Volleyball Passing Drills For Beginners
Deep Serves: 
Let The Ball Pass You Then Cut It Off




I like to work on this 3 person "Dodgeball" drill where the person in the middle has to choose which side to get their midsection out of the way of the oncoming ball that's being tossed at their chest before they present their passing platform with an angled shoulder positioned towards the target. 





Watch how Aubrey moves her midsection out of the way deciding early which side of her body she is going to open u and get out of the ball's path while putting her passing platform outside of her body line in the path of the ball while keeping her inside shoulder angled towards her target. 





    Volleyball Passing Drills For Beginners      Let The Ball Pass You Then Cut It Off


You turn sideways to let the ball pass you, then you drop your inside shoulder to present your angled platform in the path of the ball so you redirect it back to your zone 3 where your setter is waiting to run the attack. 


A good passer in volleyball watches as a ball coming over the net towards them decides early which side they will open up to ...getting their belly button out of the way, like you do when you play dodgeball, while creating their passing platform so they make contact with the ball when its outside of the body's midline. (Shots by Shanty)A good passer in volleyball watches as a ball coming over the net towards them decides early which side they will open up to ...getting their belly button out of the way, like you do when you play dodgeball...(Shots by Shanty)

A good passer in volleyball watches as a ball coming over the net towards them decides early which side they will open up to ...getting their belly button out of the way, like you do when you play dodgeball, while creating their passing platform so they make contact with the ball when its outside of the body's midline. (Shots by Shanty)...while creating their passing platform so they make contact with the ball when its outside of the body's midline. (Shots by Shanty)

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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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