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Volleyball Wall Passing And Setting Drills Improve Ball Control Skills

Doing volleyball wall passing and setting drills at home, in practice or open gym are ways to improve your volleyball passing and ball handling skills on the court.

These volleyball wall passing drills are designed to help you improve your passing technique, increase your ability to pass the ball to the target and to pass tough serves.

Volleyball wall passing drills need to be done daily with a goal of at least 250 - 500 reps of various drills to keep you technique, ball handling and ball control sharp!

Pick a brick, or mark an X in chalk ..no matter what anybody walking by should be able to see exactly which spot you are passing to..over and over.⁠

Do 3 sets of 100 five feet from the wall ..then step back two feet and repeat. Then step back and repeat.⁠ Complete 300 passing reps.

Wall setting drills can be done to soften your fingers when they touch the ball which you can do while sitting on a ball.

These volleyball wall passing drills are designed to help you

improve your passing technique,
increase your ability to pass the ball to the target and
to pass tough serves.

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 Wall Passing Drills
Your Wall Passing Ready Position

When passing to the wall here are where your body parts need to be:

Feet

one of your feet is 1-2 inches in front of the other and both feet are shoulder width apart

Knees

you're in what we call a "loaded" position with your knees slightly bent - this is an athletic stance which allows you to move quickly to your right or left if you need to

Hips

when passing the ball your hips need to be below the level of the oncoming ball

Volleyball Wall Passing Drills At Home Passing Exercises For Players Who Need To Learn To Pass A Ball - A Quick Review

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.

For more on passing drills read Volleyball Passing Drills For Players Who Need To Learn To Pass A Ball

Upper Body

with your upper body you should lean over slightly making sure you keep

Shoulders

your shoulders over your knees

Volleyball Hands

your passing grip keeps one hand tightly inside the other with thumbs pointing down to the ground - this is what keeps your elbows nice and straight when you pass

Coach April Chapple's Volleyball Passing Tips For Youth Volleyball Players

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Volleyball Wall Passing Drills
7 Keys To Be Working On

With this volleyball wall passing drill you should be working on:

keeping hips below the level of the ball
keeping straight elbows always
keeping shoulders over knees
prevent your arms from swinging at the ball

keeping your platform location - a ball's width away from your body (your platform shouldn't be held too high nor should it be too close to your body - for perfect platform location you should be able to fit a volleyball under your armpits)
keeping "strong shoulders" which help your straight arms present a flat passing surface called "your platform" which is used to guide the ball to the target
prevent your feet from getting too far apart

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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 Wall Drills:
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.

For more volleyball wall drills check out the pages below.

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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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