He’s not too bad of a volleyball player… for a prince.

This is a great volleyball drill for chemistry-building with your team cheering you on and supporting you. It’s also good for building mental toughness, because it’s tough getting balls hammered at you. The digger has to stay positive and focused to finish the drill. You can make this drill tougher/easier by how hard you hit and where you hit volleyballs to the player.

I also use this drill as a punishment for letting the ball fall between two players during serve/receive (it’s called the “hubby/wife” play). I’ll stop the drill we’re in and make the two players do ’7 ball’ drill, then we’ll go back to what we were doing.

Enjoy…

This time, the team must complete 20 full court suicides in 20 minutes. Trust me, if your team can complete this drill, they are in IMPECCABLE shape. Like Misty May-Treanor shape. This is super difficult.

Keep track of the minutes. In at least the first sprints, they should finish in under a minute. That means they’ll get a teeny-tiny rest period before you yell “start” at the next minute (insert evil laughter). But in all seriousness, we love our team, we don’t want to punish them with sprints, we want to improve them with sprints. Sprints are known to help improve verticals and reaction-times, which are two key strengths in the best volleyball players.

You don’t really need a video for this but for fun, here it is:

Good luck! Stay in shape in the off season!

This what I should be doing today! That is, playing beach volleyball not editing videos (which is a little closer to what I am doing today.)

Copyright USAV/Tyler Daugherty

I would’ve loved to have watched, well, any of these games live. But here’s a pretty awesome YouTube clip of the winners.

I’m a little surprised at how many shots they hit. You don’t see too many pros hitting that many shots like that (even though they are extremely effective and require less energy than hard driven kills). All-in-all these girls are very talented and in superb shape! Congrats to Pepperdine’s Racich and Ross!

I bet FSU will be a big contender.

Loving Collegiate Sand Volleyball and loving where my sport is going these days! Anybody know where I can watch this on TV??

I’ve actually played volleyball with one of these before and I love it too! It really pops when you hit it. It’s easier to hit and serve and much, much easier to set with the little gripper things.

Unfortunately, your float serve won’t float as well as the traditional volleyball (good news for passers), but it’s easier to place the ball more accurately (good news for servers). I don’t know about you, but I already put this volleyball on my birthday list!

Click the volleyball for more details!

What a sacrificial move! This is what a serious volleyball player looks like. I know the guy sitting at the table was surprised.

This photo actually reminds me my volleyball friend, Tracy. I think I’ve seen her do this move before.