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If your athlete struggles with consistent serve receive, gets subbed out, or is overlooked for playing time—this is the fix you’ve been looking for.
Struggling with passing consistency?
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11 Fun Passing Drills Volleyball Liberos and Backcourt Specialists Do To Improve Passing Consistency
These 11 fun passing drills volleyball liberos and backcourt specialists do with me in private training help you to improve serve receive skills against tough float servers.
These 11 fun passing drills volleyball liberos, outside hitters who pass and backcourt specialists who train with me do to improve passing are to help you when you pass...
When passing don't forget you want to
- stay very focused and concentrated on the ball starting when it's in the opposing team's server's hands and
- ending when it's bounced off of your platform and heading to your setter's hands
Short and Deep Volleyball Passing Drill
Remember, to pass a ball, you should
- get to your spot quickly,
- beat the ball to where you think its going to land
- be stopped and balanced without leaning to one side or the other
- angle your platform
- before you make the pass
It does happen quickly, but as your forearm passing gets better by using this sequence, you'll see a marked improvement in your passing skills and your ability to get the ball to the target.
11 Fun Passing Drills Volleyball Liberos Do To Improve Passing
Two Servers vs One Passer
Server vs Passer Drill
Two servers vs One passer server vs passer drill
One server is at full court and one is at midcourt and as soon as the passer passes the second server serves so there's a specific rhythm for a predetermined amount of total serves.
Passer must get a certain amount of passes to the target.
Servers can work on
- -serving to the right of the passer
- -serving to the left of the passer
- -serving deep seam to the right or left of the passer
- -serving short seam to the right or left of the passer
Controlled Partner Passing Volleyball Passing Drill
11 Fun Passing Drills Volleyball Liberos Do To Improve Passing
One Server vs One Passer
Full Court Server vs Passer Drill
11 Fun Passing Drills Volleyball Liberos Do To Improve Passing
3 Person Passing With A Throw
Two groups of three players
- One is target who catches the pass
- One is the passer and
- One is a server/thrower
Goal: To review the passing responsibilities in each passing zone - left back and right back passers.
Left back passers passing in Zone 5 have to take the their deep left seam and short balls in front of them while right side passers work on passing their left deep seam (depending on where the server is, right deep seam if the serve is coming from Zone 5.)
I'll instruct the throwers to throw 10 balls to work the left deep seam so throwing to the left of the passer to make them have to shuffle deep to the end line before passing the ball with good technique.
Everyone rotates so the target passes next, the passer goes to throw and the thrower is now the target catching passes.
After three warmup rounds with throws...remember I'm also coaching and checking the thowers to make sure their throwing arm is using the same correct technique used when doing a float serve. ...then the first server goes back and now serves again using a standing floater.
After everyone does this then one more round with the server working on their jump float serve.
Volleyball Passing Drills: Server vs. Passer
11 Fun Passing Drills Volleyball Liberos Do To Improve Passing
Pass To Yourself Set A Hut To Your Partner Warmup Drill
This is a great passing warmup drill in order to practice controlling the ball.
During warmups I give players several callouts so they can pass to themself and then
- set a high ball to their partner or
- set a hut to their partner
- set a Go to their partner
Another combination of bump-set-spike call outs I'll make during warmups will include a way to side set, front bump and back bump.
Coach April Chapple's Volleyball Passing Tips For Youth Volleyball Players
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I share alot of individual, partner and easy-to-do volleyball serving drills we do in class with my followers.
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.
11 Fun Passing Drills Volleyball Liberos Do:
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Beginner players learn how to improve your serve with these volleyball serving drills for the underhand serve so you consistently get the ball over the net.
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Best Volleyball Drills For Setters, Hitters, Liberos, Passers Blockers
Best volleyball drills are essential exercises in the learning process for players to improve your serving, hitting, passing, spiking, setting, blocking skills.
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These 5 passing volleyball drills for beginners to improve their ball control, while reading the server's body and moving to beat the ball before it lands.
The Dig Volleyball Drills We Do In Training on Pinterest and Youtube
I gathered a collection of the dig volleyball drills we do in training that I explain how to do at home or in practice to my Pinterest and Youtube followers.
Four Types of Volleyball Drills For Digging Balls Up Under Pressure
These four types of volleyball drills for digging turn up the heat and puts the digger under pressure to dig a playable ball that the setter can run a play with
Hit And Dig Volleyball Drills My Players Do To Improve Digging Skills
If you want to improve your digging skills here are 4 ways to do one of my dig volleyball drills called the Hit and Dig drill done for beginners and advanced.
Volleyball Digging Drills That Will Help You Keep Balls Off The Floor
We do alot of progressions for volleyball digging drills in our boot camp classes to cover different scenarios from hard hits to balls you need to chase down.
6 Drills To Improve Volleyball Skills in Digging and Defense Technique
These six drills to improve volleyball skills in digging and defense technique are exercise we do in boot camp classes and trainings to improve ball control.
4 Digging Drills For Volleyball Players Who Need To Improve Dig Skills
Want to know what some good digging drills for volleyball diggers are? Here are four fun drills that I do with liberos and hitters who privately train with me.
Two Diving Volleyball Drills I Do So Players Get More Balls In Defense
Remember when Rocky’s trainer had him chase chickens in the chicken coop to work on fast feet, read and react quickly, eye-hand coordination in a low position?
If your athlete struggles with consistent serve receive, gets subbed out, or is overlooked for playing time—this is the fix you’ve been looking for.
Struggling with passing consistency?
I help talented passers tired of getting pulled from games because of inconsistent serve receive skills BUILD passing confidence without expensive private lessons using the same 3-step system that's helped dozens of my athletes get recruited.
Download my eBook for $7.99 and start building the passing confidence that keeps you on the court—and gets you seen by college coaches.
From Lady Vol to Legend: Coach April Honored At UTK Champions Weekend
Lady Vol volleyball legend and record holder Coach April Chapple a University of Tennessee, Knoxville Hall of Fame Inductee, 3-time All American, 3-time SEC Champion, SEC Tournament MVP, 2-time All SEC Team is celebrated with her 1984 SEC champion teammates at Neyland Stadium during Champions Weekend on November 1-2, 2024.
- the first First Round Draft Pick for the first American pro indoor women's league
- named to the first First Team All-Pro team for Major League Volleyball in USA volleyball history
- former USA National team member
- one of the few American women players named as an Italian Pro League D-I Championship Finalist, Italian Cup Finalist and Cup of Cups Tournament Finalist
April Chapple The first First round Draft Pick For Major League Volleyball the first American Women's Pro League Honored At Athlete Unlimited Pro Volleyball Match
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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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