Volleyball Passing Drills
Learning Passing, Page 2

Explore these basic volleyball passing drills and important advice on the fundamentals of passing.

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Volleyball Passing Drills on the Net - Tossing

When doing passing drills on the net, the coach needs to add a target to a passer by the net.

• The coach tosses the ball over the net; standing fairly close to the net and making a player take couple of shuffle steps to the left, right, forward or backward.
• The coach can work just one side at the time to help putting the movement to the memory bank of the player.
• The coach focuses on the same aspects as in the previous phase:
  • shuffle steps
  • movement behind the ball, keeping the ball in front of her body
  • stopping the movement
  • placing the arms under the ball to direct it to the target (no swinging).

• The coach progresses by stepping back little by little until he feels passers are ready to start passing a serve.

Drills On the Net - Serving

When serving same principles apply, start close to the net maybe around 20 feet off the net.

• If the coach has an accurate serve, she can work out one side at the time. First multiple serves to the left side only, next round to the right side only and so on.
• The coach needs to remember to serve different kind of serves; at one practice she can focus on float serves and next practice she can teach players to pass top spin serves.
• When players progress, the coach can be moving further back towards back line.

Volleyball Passing Drills - Combining Passing with Other Skills

When players are able to perform passing on the high accurate level, the coach can consider moving on combining it with other skills (for example set and spike).

Important Tips for Training Volleyball Passing!

• Shuffling and the basic position should be learned first
• It is extremely important to stop before passing (bumping) the ball
• Direct the ball WITHOUT swinging the arms to the appropriate target.

Volleyball Passing Drills – Organizing the Drill

• When doing over the net passing, each tosser/server should have two players in the group. While one passes, one catches the ball. The coach can easily put four of these groups on one net.
• To keep the drill moving fast each group needs to learn “two ball- system”. Always when the serve is floating over the net, the target tosses the other ball to the server. Especially in the beginning when the passes are not accurate, a target needs to have an extra balls by her.
• Generally speaking limit the passes to fairly small amounts before switching the passer, maybe 8-15 passes is good enough. It is very common for players to lose their focus if repeated too many times in a row. Require players to perform every single pass fully focused.
• It is also a good idea to break down one drill to smaller sections, instead of having just one long drill. The reason being players stay more focused that way.
  • For example: it is a good idea to tell players they have 5 minutes to practice passing from the left side of their body before working out the right side vs. telling them they will practice passing for the next 20 minutes.

• It is much easier for players to stay focused 5 minutes at the time, than preparing for the whole 20 minute session. That’s a good way to trick players to focus on monotonous technical drills.

Important Volleyball Passing Tips to the Coach!

• It is not undermining tossing/serving the ball close to the net, inside the court: it is extremely important to do so, especially for the beginner players whose passing has not developed yet.

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