Basic Volleyball Passing Drills For High Floater Serves That Rise Up

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Basic Volleyball Passing Drills For High Floater Serves That Rise When They Come At You

With these basic volleyball passing drills remember to anticipate where the ball will land, keep elbows straight, stay in athletic stance, angle your platform

With these basic volleyball passing drills remember to anticipate where the ball will land, keep elbows straight, stay in athletic stance, angle your platform (Shots by Shanty)

Struggling with serve receive? Missing too many passes?

These basic volleyball passing drills address the most common challenges I see players face - from handling tough float serves to managing deep balls to the endline.

As the head coach of both the Vegas Volley 18s teams, I've helped players overcome their passing fears through these fundamental drills.

Whether you're getting aced on float serves or struggling to control deep balls, these basic drills will help you develop consistent passing technique.

Let me share the proven passing progressions I use with both my private clients and team players.

These aren't complicated drills - they're simple, effective solutions to the passing problems that frustrate many players

With these basic volleyball passing drills remember to

a) Anticipate where the ball is heading and quickly move to get the middle of your body behind the ball

b) Hold your wrists together keeping elbows straight to form a "platform" which is what you use to make contact with the ball.

c) With bent knees and in an athletic stance with hips lower than the oncoming ball, contact the ball with your platform keeping arms very straight so the ball contacts your arms only once.

d) Angle the platform by dropping your shoulder in the direction of where you want the ball to go before you guide it to your setter, or to another hitter or even across the net.

I like to work on this 3 person "Dodgeball" drill where the person in the middle has to choose which side to get their midsection out of the way of the oncoming ball that's being tossed at their chest before they present their passing platform with an angled shoulder positioned towards the target.

Basic Volleyball Passing Drills For Passing A Tough Serve With Good Technique

Clean arm movements with a frozen platform, quick feet to the ball, and precise body moves by the passer make it easier for the setter to read and anticipate where the passed ball is going to be. (female player passing a volleyball photo by CE Andersen)

Remember after the opposing team serves, your setter when they come from their base position in serve receive up to the net they also watch their passer also known as “reading” the passer’s body language and the ball to determine if this is a pass that’s coming right to them or if they're going to have to chase the ball down because they didn’t pass it to the target. (out of system). . .

Clean arm movements with a frozen platform, quick feet to the ball, and precise body moves by the passer make it easier for the setter to read and anticipate where the passed ball is going to be.

Basic Volleyball Passing Drills For Deep Serves To The End Line Can Sometimes Trick You Trying Not To Get Aced

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Having trouble with passing consistency? Let's start with my favorite wall drill - it's helped countless beginners develop reliable passing technique...

Basic Volleyball Passing Drills Against A Wall For Beginner Players Who Need To Learn To Improve Passing Skills

Take two big steps away from the wall

Pick a spot on the wall that's 2-3 feet above your head.
Use a piece of tape or chalk or identify the brick that you are going to pass EVERY ball to.
Use passing to that spot.
Every time the ball doesn't get to that spot, stop and start again.

Do not finish until you've passed 25 balls to that spot. They don't have to be in a row at first. Just get 25 no matter how long it takes.

If you're struggling to read serves, this next drill specifically addresses that challenge.

My 'Dodgeball' drill has helped players overcome their hesitation when reading incoming high float serve balls...

You can do my 3-person "Dodgeball" drill by yourself against the wall as an at-home passing drill where you throw a controlled toss or chest pass a ball to the wall and then as it comes back you pick a side to open up to and present your angled passing platform in a way to deflect the ball back to the wall...then repeat.

Basic Volleyball Passing Drills Tips To Control The Ball To Your Setter Against A Tough Float Server

Frustrated by float serves that drop unexpectedly?

These basic techniques have helped my Vegas Volley players handle even the toughest servers...

Controlling the pass, also called "controlling the ball" or "ball control" is a big part of becoming a very good volleyball passer.

One way we teach passers to control the ball is to drop their hips lower than the level of the oncoming ball which helps you contact the ball to forearm pass it from a lower point.

With your hips lower than the oncoming served ball you can get under it and give it lift from a better angle with your legs.

One way we teach passers to control the ball is to drop their hips lower than the level of the oncoming ball which helps you contact the ball to forearm pass it from a lower point. With your hips lower than the oncoming served ball you can get under it and give it lift from a better angle with your legs. (Shots by Shanty)

Basic Volleyball Passing Drills:
Your Path to Better Ball Control

These fundamental passing drills have helped my players transform from uncertain passers into confident ball control specialists.

They're the same drills captured by 'Shots by Shanty' Shantalle Demerjian during our recent practices - proof that simple, focused training works.

These fundamental passing drills have helped my players transform from uncertain passers into confident ball control specialists. They're the same drills captured by 'Shots by Shanty' Shantalle Demerjian during our recent practices - proof that simple, focused training works. (Shots by Shanty)

Want to develop more advanced passing skills?

Check out my articles on 'Volleyball Partner Passing Drills' and '4 Passing Drills For Volleyball' for the next step in your development.

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Many of these volleyball practice drills you can do at home by yourself or try at your next practice with your teammates.

If you're a B team or JV player trying to make varsity next year...your goal should be to complete 1000 reps a day of at least three of the basic skills on your own...volleyball passing, serving and setting should be at the top of the list.

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Serving slang is not just about individual techniques; it also relates to overall game strategy. A coach might instruct a player to serve a "short serve" or a "deep serve" to target specific areas of the opponent's court or exploit weaknesses in their serve receive formation.

Ari, my private training client and I are working specifically on serving on jump float cross court serves ...short to Zone 2

There's so much we work on to get to this point where she can contact the ball with

the same toss height and same toss location
the same armswing speed
the same timing for when her serving hand contacts the ball
the middle of the hand contacting the middle of the ball every single time
getting use to watching her serving hand contact the ball at the highest point of her jump ...before she starts to land
and finally contacting the ball in the precise spot on the ball so it goes where the coach wants the player to put it so in this case ..a short serve in the farthest short right corner on the court also called Zone 2.

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