Volleyball Drills for Beginner
One of the most important aspects of beginning volleyball is the mastery of ball control. After you have started your conditioning, can run around the court without collapsing; can do your squats, lunges, bench presses and are even adding more weight, you now need to learn timing, learn how to properly control and place the ball and put your feet where they should be. Hitting the ball with all the power of the Governator won’t do anything to advance you or your team if the ball ends up 10 feet from where you wanted it go.
This is where practice, practice, practice comes in. Just as you have seen batters spend hours in a batting cage, or soccer players passing a ball for hours; you will have practice drill after practice drill. Your coach does not give these to you just to keep you busy or to punish you. These drills build hand-eye coordination, your ability to control the ball and your body, and, after a long while and a lot of drills, your ball control and timing will become almost second nature. But you never get to stop doing drills. Pros still do drill practices even if they are world champions.
For beginners the drills focus on repetition. Set drills are one of the most important because this is such a key in winning points.
If you have a partner, switch roles between being the passer and the setter, a series for you and a series for your partner. Do both underhand and overhand (fingertip) sets, also mixing in one hand sets, because they will happen, especially in beginning levels. A twist on this is to gradually lower yourself and raise yourself back up from the floor when you are doing a series of sets to accustom your body to all the possible positions you may end up in and be able to keep the ball in play.
If you don’t have a partner and are practicing on your own, there are still plenty of things you can do if you have a ball and a wall. Service practice is faster if you have a partner, but you can get plenty of service practice in if you are on a court by yourself or just using a wall, handball courts a great for this. Breaking out the video camera can really help improve your serve, focusing especially on your timing, hitting the ball at the height of its arc and the top of your jump.
A good drill if you need pass practice and don’t have a partner is to do vertical sets. These can be done both standing or on your back, learning to control the ball and have it go up directly over your head is the goal. Wall sets and blocks train you to be in the correct position to not touch the net during play.
Footwork is extremely important, as are balance and agility. You will have a lot of lateral movement in volleyball and therefore doing any type of training or drill that improves this will improve your game. Doing “crossovers” or “zig zags” where you move laterally first crossing the left foot over the right then vice versa is great for this.
Another good drill is “shuffles” this is actually they way you move your feet during a game, almost like a dance step, right foot right, left foot right up to the other foot and back again.
This is another one of those which you can do alone, in front of your tv or whenever you’re feeling like giving yourself that little bit of extra edge.
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