Volleyball Drills from Division 1 athletes

A dry run, run through

Danielle — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:12:38 +0000

Run-through volleyball drills are a dry run for your defensive players. They should be quick enough to pick up those short dumps by the setter. This is a good drill to get them used to doing that in a real volleyball match. Hence the dry run comment.

This run-through drill helps girls (or boys) work on moving feet to pass short volleyballs. This is a great warm up passing volleyball drill. Once you can tell they’re tired, switch groups and repeat as necessary.

You will need two groups of about 4-5 high school volleyball players.One group on the volleyball court the other group will help shag, target and hand volleyballs to the coach.

1. Group 1 starts in corner in a line.
2. Each girl must wait to run until the volleyball is tossed.
3. At the toss, she runs through the ball while passing to the target and then loops back to the back of the line.

In a way all drills are dry runs. After they do this dry run for about a week. Test it out in a game. See if this drill helped your defensive girls improve their short, digging game.

Not my volleyball video Friday

Danielle — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:20:10 +0000

Wow. These girls are pumped up. I like how the volleyball coach is the drummer. Meanwhile, the other high school volleyball teams are rolling their eyes.

Wonder if they do that at tournaments? I can’t imagine still cheering like that after playing all day long.

Would you play indoor volleyball in a swimsuit?

Danielle — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:09:40 +0000

When I played, it was popular to wear sleeveless uniforms with spandex (which we called bikers) and knee socks up to our knee pads.

Then the style slowly went to a long sleeve jersey style with spandex (which they call spankies) with mid-calf socks and typically black knee pads.

I just saw Cuban National Volleyball team player, Regla Torres, wearing this ensemble:

I gave it a double take. Is this new style? Are all teams going to be wearing swimming suits to play? Not sure how comfortable I would be sporting this outfit, not everyone has a banging body like Regla here.

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Not my volleyball video Friday

Danielle — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:11:23 +0000

Oh Geez! Where has my mind been? I almost forgot to post this.

They say “Volleyball Accident.” Sometimes I wonder.

Organized Volleyball Drills

Danielle — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:31:16 +0000

Check out my tab volleyball drills above! It took a little time (especially with wordpress not letting me link the easy way–sigh)… but I categorized all the blocking, hitting, passing and digging, serving and setting drills in these convenient link pages.

I guess I was feeling the need to organize after being introduced to Ready, Set, GO!

Enjoy our clean, easy-to-find… and most importantly FREE volleyball drills!

Not my volleyball video Friday

Danielle — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 14:37:31 +0000

16 switches! Dang this is one long volleyball rally. For some reason I’m thinking Chinese fire drill.

Not my volleyball video Friday

Danielle — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:18:48 +0000

Interesting.

Comments? Do you agree? Disagree? What’s he even talking about?

Serious volleyball fight or serious jerks?

Danielle — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:57:27 +0000

This is SER-I-OUS! The video calls itself a “Serious Volleyball Fight.” I was waiting for a killer punch or a kick to the face but… it looks like a group of boys demonstrating unsportsmanlike conduct. Come on guys, the game is over. Stay classy, like volleyball players should. Don’t behave like basketball or football players… or worse, hockey.

Snow volleyball

Danielle — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:39:40 +0000

I would totes be doing this if we had any snow. Any snow at all.

Not my volleyball video Friday

Danielle — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:31:30 +0000

Sorry I haven’t posted in a few days… Busy Christmastime.

Here’s a nice facial off a block. Merry Christmas.