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Volleyball: Advanced Smash Drill

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A slightly more advanced drill involving a pass to set and smash.

COACHING POINTS

The run from player one is important, as it needs to be timed with the layup from player 2. Also note the curved run taken from Player 1 prior to the smash.

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2 Player Serve:

Players 1 and 2 serve 5 balls each. Players 3 and 4 pass the ball to player 5 who catches the ball and rolls it back under the net to the servers. Servers should try and serve into the open court to make it difficult for the receivers

MVT:SERVING

From Laying To Spiking:

The player at the back of the court passes the ball to a setter and lies down. The setter then overhand passes the ball high before setting the ball up for the other player, who has now returned to his feet, to approach and spike the ball.

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2 Player Defensive Dig Drill:

Player 1 pushes a high ball for player 2 to defensive dig back to Player 1.

4 Passing Drills

Amoeba serve game:

The drill starts with a player from each side serving a ball. They then go and sit down where their serve landed - assuming it went in (if not they join the back of the line and will have to serve again in a minute).
The rest of the players then start serving, trying to serve to their teammate on the other side of the net. If successful and their team-mate catches the ball, they go join them.
The drill ends when one team has all of their players reach the other side.

9 Conditioned games

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