Volleyball Drills
Learning Passing Fundamentals

Explore volleyball drills about passing and tips how you can learn proper passing fundamentals.

Before learning about the volleyball, it is helpful and quickens learning if the player has already learned shuffling and basic position.

One Common Technical Fault

The most common fault on passing technique is the player swings the ball with arms. A served ball approaches fast; therefore the player should never swing at the ball, but just place arms under the ball to direct the platform towards the target.

Plenty of attention should be paid on arms to avoid swinging. If a player needs to put extra power behind her bump pass, she needs to do it with her legs, keeping the arms steady and calm.

How to Practice Volleyball Pass?

Introduction (mimic)

Coach introduces the skill and makes sure a player does the technique correctly without the ball.

• Coach uses a low bench (or similar) and asks player to sit on the edge of the bench, her arms extended to pass (bump) the ball.
• Coach asks the player to mimic passing (bumping) by pushing herself up from the bench with the legs.
• After finished, a player sits back to the edge of the bench (keeping her passing form all the time), just to repeat the passing movement (getting up by pushing with legs) again.
• As explained, coach needs to focus on players arms, there is no need for swinging with arms. The power should come from the legs.
• Swinging the ball with arms makes the pass inaccurate.

Adding a Toss

On this progression, the coach takes a ball into play and tosses it to the player.

• The coach tosses the ball to a player who sits on the edge of the bench.
• When ball approaches, a player pushes herself up and passes (bumps) the ball back by using her legs.
• A player can repeat the pass 5-10 times before giving her rest.
• It is very tough for a beginner player to repeat those passes by using her legs, so give her enough rest and don’t repeat more than 4-5 sets.

Volleyball Drill - Passing without Footwork

On this progression, the coach can remove the bench. The coach focuses on the same principles than before, but without a bench.

• A coach tosses an easy ball straight to the player and player repeats the pass as described in the previous chapter.
• Focus on arms, a player should not swing at the ball.
• This phase should be fairly quick.

Volleyball Drill - Passing with Footwork

This progression need a little bit more practice and could be repeated in several practices. The coach combines proper footwork with the skill.

• The coach starts tossing the ball a little bit to the left or right side of the player and a player performs shuffle steps to keep the ball in front of her body.
• The coach should pay attention to shuffle steps; steps should be short, weight on the toes (forward) and cross over steps are not allowed.
• And also to the fact that a player stops completely and has a balanced position before she passes (bumps) the ball back to the coach.
• The coach needs to work out the player also by tossing the ball backwards or forward and focus on the correct shuffle steps.

As soon as the coach feels the players are ready they can move to perform the same on the net.

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