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Wall Ball Routine
Volleyball Drills
Passing to yourself:
Practice your passing skills with this helpful drill. Get into a passing position and pass the ball straight up in the air to yourself. Keep the ball from hitting the ground. To work on maintaining control, try to keep your feet stationary. From here, move on to re-positioning your feet and moving back and forth or side to side.
Vertical Sets/Setting to yourself:
This drill can be done in different ways. To help start with working on control of your set, try setting the ball while lying on your back. Make sure to have your knees bent. Have your hands 6 to 8 inches above your face, with your hands on the ball in the proper setting position. Your thumb and forefingers should form a triangular window. Push up through the ball. Try to set the ball over 50 times without having to move.
Standing while practicing setting:
This is the same drill as the one listed above, but for this one you are standing. Re-position your feet to get yourself under the ball. Repeat this drill 50 times or more to maintain proper control.
Pass-Set-Pass:
While standing, alternate between passing and setting. This will help keep control of the volleyball and allow you to practice on quick movement and footwork.
Bonus Drill: Footwork
Improve balance, stability, and ankle strength by using this lateral hop and hold drill at home. Begin with an athletic stance, knees bent, ready for the ball. Put your weight on your right foot and then jump to the left, landing on the ground once more in your athletic stance waiting for a few seconds. Now put your weight on your left foot and jump to the right, again landing in your athletic stance and waiting a few seconds. Each time you repeat the drill, you should increase the distance of your jump.
Tips & Techniques
Overhand Serving:
Passing:
Footwork
Wall Ball Routine
- 20 toss and swing bounce to the ground to wall and catch/continuous
- 10 lift toss (make sure it drops in front of right foot)
- 20 lift toss, step and serve to wall
- 20 continuous pass
- 20 continuous set
Volleyball Drills
Passing to yourself:
Practice your passing skills with this helpful drill. Get into a passing position and pass the ball straight up in the air to yourself. Keep the ball from hitting the ground. To work on maintaining control, try to keep your feet stationary. From here, move on to re-positioning your feet and moving back and forth or side to side.
Vertical Sets/Setting to yourself:
This drill can be done in different ways. To help start with working on control of your set, try setting the ball while lying on your back. Make sure to have your knees bent. Have your hands 6 to 8 inches above your face, with your hands on the ball in the proper setting position. Your thumb and forefingers should form a triangular window. Push up through the ball. Try to set the ball over 50 times without having to move.
Standing while practicing setting:
This is the same drill as the one listed above, but for this one you are standing. Re-position your feet to get yourself under the ball. Repeat this drill 50 times or more to maintain proper control.
Pass-Set-Pass:
While standing, alternate between passing and setting. This will help keep control of the volleyball and allow you to practice on quick movement and footwork.
Bonus Drill: Footwork
Improve balance, stability, and ankle strength by using this lateral hop and hold drill at home. Begin with an athletic stance, knees bent, ready for the ball. Put your weight on your right foot and then jump to the left, landing on the ground once more in your athletic stance waiting for a few seconds. Now put your weight on your left foot and jump to the right, again landing in your athletic stance and waiting a few seconds. Each time you repeat the drill, you should increase the distance of your jump.
Tips & Techniques
Overhand Serving:
- Opposite foot forward (from hitting arm)
- Hold the ball in front of you. Place your non-dominant hand directly in front of you, straight but with a flexible elbow. The palm should be face up with the ball in it
- Lift the ball with your palm in the air. Keep the ball in line with your hitting shoulder and about 1 foot in front of you so you can step into the serve.
- Add momentum by stepping forward with your dominant foot as you serve, transferring the weight forward for a powerful serve.
- The ball will go where your hand and toes face, so aim your palm and toes for accurate shooting.
- Lead with your elbow to bring your dominant hand forward. Smack the ball with the heel of your hand or the bottom of your palm. Don't hit the ball with your fingers or fist.
- Feet to the ball first-get under the ball
- Square your feet with shoulders to target
- Make a square with your finger tips, then ball shape (like catching a ball)
- Fingers spread, elbows bent
- 10 fingers make contact with ball
- Place weight on left (back foot) and transfer weight to right (forward) foot on contact
- Bring to forehead, then extend to follow through
Passing:
- Feet to the ball first - shoulder width apart
- Build your platform - pancake, pancake, sausage, sausage
- Wrist down
- Shoulders over toes
- Make contact on forearm (platform)
- Use legs
- Shrug shoulders.
- NO swinging of arms
Footwork
- Left Handed:
- Big right step (directional to ball) → then fast left, right
- Right Handed
- Big left step (directional to ball) → then fast right, left
- Keep ball in front of you
- Use both arms to jump
- Bow & Arrow arms
- Reach high and snap your wrist.
- Ready Stance- Knees bent, feet shoulder width apart, hands by face (bye eye level)
- Load- Half squat to load your jump, hands stay up
- Press- Fingers spread out, strong hands and wrist, push up and over the net to seal.
