Volleyball: Spike and shuffle

Give your players the knowledge and understanding of the roles and skills required for each of the zones of the volleyball court.

Get players into pairs and have them standing across from each other on the court, and with a ball between them. The player with the ball jumps and baseball passes the ball to their team mate, throwing it into the floor so that it bounces high.

Starting on the attack line, the players imitate a dig. Then, they jog forward to perform a spike movement. On landing they then move forward to the net to perform a block movement, land and jog backwards to their starting point on the attack line.

1. Player 1 starts by serving from the base line and then enters the court.
   
   
2. He/she then runs into the correct zone (zone 1), where player 2 (standing in zone 4) hits the ball to him/her around waist high. Player 1 then has to dig up the ball, and return it to player 2 as if setting up a spike.
   
   
3. Player 1 then returns to their zone, where player 3 (from zone 2) hits the ball to them short in the middle of court. Player 1 then has to dig up the ball back to player 3.
   
   
4. Player 1 then returns back to their zone and steps two to three are repeated.

This task will get your players used to receiving a serve and preparing in second fraction to dig up a spike from Zone 4 and Zone 2.

Player 1 serves from the opposite side of the court into zone 5. Player 2 (acting as a back row player) then digs up the ball.

Player 3 (standing close to the net in zone 4) then spikes the ball to player 1, who has to dig up the ball.

Player 4 (standing close to the net in zone 2) then spikes the ball to player 1, who again has to dig up the ball.