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How to
Improve Volleyball Skills
This how to improve volleyball skills section helps you to understand
how experienced coaches and volleyball players improve their game
during the match.
We reflect to various passing formations – helping
you to get an idea how to make little changes on the court to improve
your performance.
Even if you are not interested in passing, we encourage you to read
through these couple of pages – you can apply the same ideas into
various other skills.
6
tips how
to improve volleyball skills during the match - volleyball
passing
1) Volleyball
Serve Receive - Dividing the Court
Often in junior volleyball matches you notice players dividing the
passing areas pretty equally – each player has the same size area to
pass. It probably is the best practice for more equal player
development, but is it the best practice to bring in results?
Example 1:
Libero or serve receive specialist to take more court
Especially now with libero being the serve receive specialist, it gives
you the opportunity to give more passing area to the libero.
If we are playing for the result, not for the player development, it is
beneficial to give more passing area to the libero, or any other
player who is more skilled receiving the ball.
It is very common to see
libero taking half (50%) or even more than half of the court.
Example 2:
How to divide the court?
If the outside hitter on the position 4 struggles with the
pass –
coach and other players should try to support the player and help
him/her out.
We use percentages to give you an idea about the areas. Libero should
take 50% of the court (half of the court) and other
passer for example third of the court (33%), leaving to the struggling
outside hitter only a little slice (in this case 17%).
That slice of 17%, feels considerably smaller compared to third of the
court, s/he had earlier. That
area is less than fifth of the court, which
gives a passer opportunity to pass the ball directly in front of
him/her, if the opposing team still serves to the
struggling player.
It is much easier to pass the ball when s/he does not need to move
sideways or reaching the ball from the side when passing.
2) How to Improve
Volleyball Skills – four primary passers, instead of
three!
The standard practice is to use three players to pass the ball. Have
you ever thought it could be done with four passers?
I recently watched re-run of the top international men's volleyball
match, Italy vs. Russia. Russia is known for the powerful jump servers.
When top server of Russia went to serve, Italy suddenly changed their
passing line-up and made also their opposite to pass the ball.
Example 1:
Making opposite hitter to receive the ball
They had four primary players to pass the ball (only setter and middle
blocker in the front row were not passing).
This tactic probably makes some volleyball enthusiasts' hair stand –
but why not to use it as an option - if the opposite
hitter is capable of passing the ball. (In most cases,
opposite hitters
probably do not have the skills).
Our point is
- it is good to think “outside-the-box” and find
creative solutions to improve your game.
3) How to Improve
Volleyball Skills – dropping one passer off?
Example: What
about using just two passers to pass the ball against some easier
serves?
Older volleyball fans remember this method was in use before the
jump serves became so powerful. In this era of powerful jump
serves and jump floaters this method
cannot be used very often in international top volleyball. However
against weaker serving teams, it is still very usable tactic.
Some players still serve weaker floaters or jump floaters. Why not to
release one of the passers and let her focus on running extremely fast
tempo attack without worrying about passing the ball first?
Coach or players can prepare for this kind of changes even before the
match. Every time they know weaker server is serving, they should be
ready to do the switch to the passing line-up automatically.
For the next
three tips how to improve volleyball skills and make
changes to
your game, go to
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