Volleyball Passing Drills To Do To Improve Your Passing In Volleyball

My clients consistently improve their passing skills with my volleyball passing drills including 1 passer vs 1 server, synchronized passing and more pass drills.

These volleyball passing drills need to be done daily with a goal of at least 250 - 500 reps of various drills to keep you technique and accuracy sharp! (Shots by Shanty/Treyden/VegasVolley)

How do you get better at passing in volleyball?

The volleyball passing drills that I do are designed to help Vegas varsity players improve their passing skills in serve receive. 

When you pass a volleyball, you are

• transferring the ball from one player to another or over the net
• without letting the ball come to a complete stop
• while clasping both hands together at the wrists 
• contacting the ball on your forearms

Whether you call it the volleyball bump, the serve receive, the underhand pass or the forearm pass every player needs to master the art of controlling the ball while passing in volleyball.

Your volleyball player passing ready position should have feet shoulder width apart, knees slightly bent, shoulders are over knees with arms extended straight out in front of you below the level of your belly button with your palms open and facing the ceiling. (Shots by Shanty/Mason/VegasVolley)

You do that by doing lots and lots of reps during volleyball passing drills which we do and practice in my semi private training sessions with clients and in my Boot Camp classes.

Many times I like to start with a warmup passing drill where you go against the wall to focus on your passing technique before getting on the court and progressing to passing with a partner. 

Let's get into the specifics as to how you would do the volleyball wall passing drill at home. 

1. Take two big steps away from the wall 
2. Pick a spot on the wall that's 2-3 feet above your head. 
3. Use a piece of tape or chalk or identify the brick that you are going to pass EVERY ball to. 
4. Start passing to that spot. 
5. Every time the ball doesn't get to that spot, stop and start again. 
6. Do not finish until you've passed 25 balls to that spot. They don't have to be in a row at first. Just get 25 no matter how long it takes.

If you can only pass one ball to that spot, great.

Work on passing two in a row. Then work on passing three in a row. Next goal..ten in a row. 

Make sure you stop and start again each time the ball doesn't get to the target. Each time it does, count it!

I love doing this drill and I know not many volleyball coaches in the United States do this type of training. 

Quite often with my clients, my club teams and my college players that I train I do synchronized serving and passing drills which forces both participants to 

• toss the ball at the same height and pace and 
• to time the serve arm swing so the serving hands of both servers contact the ball at the same time

Why do I do these types of volleyball passing drills?

What I find is that

• anyone with a slow arm swing, quickly learns that they need to quicken their arm swing up
• anyone who drops their elbow in the middle of their serve swing realizes that they need to keep their elbow high during the whole arm swing action
• anyone who frequently misses their serve has to work on focusing on how and where they contact the ball to insure it goes over the net
• anyone who needs to work on dealing with 'the pressure of serving over the net' this drill specifically works on that because the way I score credit for this drill is that 

1. both pairs or both players have to make the ball in in order to earn a point while 
2. the whole group has to make a certain percentage of serves in the court (usually anything over 50%) 
3. the pair or players who miss their serve are very aware that they are missing serves that dont help the team meet the team goal which is what happens in a game but this drill really emphasizes this point  
4. Yes as a coach I have my groups or teams do this once they meet their team goal which could be a certain percentage of serves in the court and/or within a certain amount of time

If done correctly, when players contact the ball it will sound like one person is serving instead of two.  

Another reason why I do these volleyball passing drills is to work on a player's ability to focus on and track the ball in the air while still using peripheral vision to be aware of what's going on on your left side and your right side.

This is important because players in the front row have to move together and players in the back row need to be 'in synch' moving at the same time from their base position to their adjusted position in defense while looking at the ball when its still on the other team's side of the net. 

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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. 

Your three options are: 

1. You can learn more about Drills by visiting the Related Links below.  
2. Follow the suggested reading on our Sitemap page  Learning How To Play (Sitemap)
3. 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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