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Volleyball Drills
for Player Development

Explore volleyball drills and learn about skills development. How to learn essential volleyball skills quickly without frustration?

From the bottom of the page, you'll also find advanced drills in which players apply technical skills - to learn important volleyball tactics and strategies.

Volleyball Drills - Skills, Tactics, Conditioning

On the site you find drills under three categories:

Skill, technical or fundamental drills
Tactical or strategic drills
Conditioning drills

In this section we pay special attention to the volleyball skills training, since it is the most important aspect of volleyball.

In fact, skills training is so important for volleyball players that it should be included when training for volleyball tactics and strategies also.

Volleyball Drills and Skills Training

Everybody understands the importance of volleyball skills drills, which teach for example the basics of volleyball passing or setting - but why teaching skills is important when running drills on volleyball strategies, tactics, etc?

Here is the first reason..

"Lots of Practice and Volleyball Drills... But Volleyball Skills Are Not Transferring into Your Game?"

Often players "forget" sound technical skills when performing game-like drills or playing - even if they may perform skills correctly when practicing specific technique by itself. How to help players to transfer skills into the game?

After learning the basics, coaches and players need to take skills training to the next level. The next step is to work on techniques in game-like situation.

Improving players' individual skills should always be present in volleyball practice - also when teaching volleyball tactics and strategies for the team or indvidual players.

... Important when Running Volleyball Drills about Skills...

All the volleyball skills are complex skills, which require great ball handling skills, body and hand eye coordination. It is difficult for volleyball player to coordinate the movement of the arms, legs and torso while for example approaching and jumping.

It becomes even more difficult when players need to perform different skills after another - or to think about volleyball strategies to beat the opponent. It helps player to perform the complex skills correctly when progressing a piece by piece, not putting all the pieces together at once.

Volleyball drills for techniques should be progressive - a previous example of practicing skills in game-like situation is an advanced progression of skills training. For beginning volleyball players skills training is naturally simpler - but still you should progress a little by little.

When you read forward you'll find information about "breaking down the drill" and how to learn skills quickly..

Volleyball Drills to Learn Techniques - Important From Beginners to Pros

Volleyball Drills for Beginners

Learning technical skills can be challenging for beginning volleyball players. It is a well-known fact that young athletes often give up on volleyball since it simply feels difficult.

There are ways to keep volleyball training interesting and learn complex techniques without players becoming frustrated about volleyball.

We show examples how to learn even the most difficult volleyball skills one piece at the time - by "breaking down the drill". We present how beginning volleyball players can learn volleyball techniques by playing volleyball games.

We start from the very basics, beginner volleyball drills and progress into more advanced drills.

Youth Volleyball Drills for Junior Volleyball Players

Especially at a younger age, it would be important to let players play multiple positions and learn various skills equally. Often coaches do not pay enough attention to the skill development - and focus too much on winning right now.

Our courteous wish is that coaches would put winning a little bit aside at younger age. Junior volleyball coaches should focus more on the player and skill development - for example letting players play multiple positions - even if it would end up costing some games or matches.

With better all around skills, players will be prepared to play at the higher level and maybe completely different position for some other coach in the future.

Top Players Train Volleyball Techniques Constantly

We want to pay special attention to the fact that top volleyball players practice fundamental skills also. They absolutely do. Top volleyball coaches put lots of effort to improve the players' techniques.

Practicing fundamentals should be progressive and can be progressed much further into details than the basics of setting or passing. At the top level, the skill drills look a whole lot different when comparing to the junior level.

You find examples of those drills down below under Advanced Drills section.

The Higher You Aim, The More Important Skills Are

When compared to other sports, skill and technical development plays a very important role in volleyball. In other ball games there are positions you can play even at the professional level without having great ball handling skills, just by being physically gifted. On the volleyball court great technical skills are definately needed.

Without developing great skills, it is impossible to play volleyball at the higher level. The higher level you play, the more important it is to master every single skill.

Volleyball Drills - How to Improve Volleyball Technical Skills?

Learning volleyball techniques requires dedication and perseverance. Even basic volleyball skills are very complex - it takes countless repetitions and practice times to learn them properly.

How to teach volleyball technical skills for volleyball players?

And how to make sure players learn skills without becoming extremely frustrated?

How to avoid frustrations and help players to learn?

Focusing on the techniques doesn't mean players should be thinking and overanalyzing complex technical skills. Players should not need to think about how to perform skills - everything should happen automatically. Playing volleyball and performing skills should be natural.

Teaching skills progressively and piece by piece is the key to learn complex technical skills - it decreases frustrations and keeps players motivated.

By progressing one piece at the time, even complex skills will became a natural habit for the players. Athletes who are able to pick up for example the coordination and technique for hitting instantly are very rare - most athletes need a different approach.

Keep It Simple! Break Down the Drill!

To ease up the learning process, it is recommended to keep everything very simple and “break down the technical drill” for players to catch every aspect of it.

Practicing skills should be progressive; the best way to describe this "breaking down" is to give an example. Below there is an example about volleyball hitting drill - and how to progress from the simple towards more complex drills.

Volleyball Drills Example - How to "Break Down the Drill"

Volleyball Hitting Drills

Introduction – players mimic the skill without hitting the ball
Practice the skill without footwork
Practice the skill with footwork
Practice the skill in game-like situation (and possibly adding a tactical aspect into it)
Practice the skill in the complex game-like situation combining various skills together (plus possibly adding tactical aspects).

Keep It Simple! Do Not Combine Too Many Skills Together

It is very important to notice the most complex levels is not for beginning volleyball players - only highly skilled players are able to perform those drills efficiently.

For example, there is no sense practicing hitting combined with passing and setting, if a good set rarely reaches the hitter. It is more beneficial learning to hit from coach’s toss first and get several repetitions to the hitter. The moment when players are skilled enough it is time to progress to the complex level.

Breaking down skills or drills helps coaches to focus on the aspect they want to work on. Keep it simple!!

Volleyball Drills Related Pages

Volleyball Passing Drills:

Essential Volleyball Passing Drills
Explore basic volleyball passing drills - and tips how you can learn proper fundamentals of passing.

Essential Volleyball Passing Drills II
More volleyball passing drills - and tips to help you organize those drills.

Volleyball Passing Drills for Advanced Volleyball Serve Receive Techniques
Drills to improve your volleyball skills by extending your passing range.

Volleyball Passing Drills for Overhead Volleyball Passing
Drills to teach overhead serve receive techniques.

Volleyball Setting Drills and Passing Drills for Beginners:

Volleyball Beginner Drills - Setting Drills
Simple setting drills for beginners. Learn what is "Volleybal Juggling".

Volleyball Beginner Drills - Passing Drills
Simple passing drills for beginners. Learn how to "juggle" with volleyball.

Advanced Drills:

Fun Volleyball Drills
These fun drills include exciting team building aspect. These drills teach teamwork and volleyball strategies about team’s offense and defense.

Volleyball Practice Drills
Examples of fun drills which are enjoyable for the team and help to understand the importance of teamwork. These are advanced offensive drills.

Volleyball Advanced Drills
How to learn volleyball strategies? How to teach tactical understanding of the game?

Volleyball Practice Drills - Serving Passing Drills Example

Volleyball Setting Drills - How to Play Fast Game?
Volleyball has become faster. You find tips how setters, passers and hitters learn to play faster game.

Volleyball Setting Drills - How to Set Up Timing with Hitters?
Learn how setters and hitters can learn to set up the timing.

Volleyball Team Drills - Warm Ups
Save practice time by skipping traditional running-stretching warm ups and make practices more fun.

Volleyball Team Drills - Fun Games for Warm Ups
Check out how you can play fun games for warm ups and how to warm up for the matches.

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