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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.

Volleyball player passing ready position 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)

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.

Kenny is working on his ball control precision and presenting the correct passing platform angle in order to get the ball to my hand without making me move. I'm holding my camera to film this video and tossing the ball to him to pass with my other hand.

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.

Volleyball Passing Drills:
How To Do Volleyball Wall Passing Drills At Home

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

Take two big steps away from the wall
Pick a spot on the wall that's 2-3 feet above your head.
Use a piece of tape or chalk or identify the brick that you are going to pass EVERY ball to.
Start passing to that spot.
Every time the ball doesn't get to that spot, stop and start again.
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.

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.

How Do These 2 Volleyball Passing Drills Work Against The Wall?

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!

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

If you are passing the ball all around that spot and not hitting your target then you have work to do.

Your goal is to increase the amount of passes you can make to your target spot on the wall while maintaining good form and passing technique.

Synchronized Volleyball Passing Drills

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

both pairs or both players have to make the ball in in order to earn a point while
the whole group has to make a certain percentage of serves in the court (usually anything over 50%)
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
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.

Volleyball Passing Drills:
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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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