I highly recommend this drill which can be done two ways...at home you can on your own.. practice your armswing spike in the mirror ..
Look in the mirror and watch yourself do your proper armswing technique...keeping elbow high and not dropping your elbow.
Palm faces the opposing wall and the movement from 12 o"clock to 10 o'clock which is the top of your armswing to when you make contact with the ball ..gets faster and faster.
Do 100 reps while looking in the mirror - four sets of 25 armswings in the morning and again at night…
This drill CHANGED my game and helped me make the US National team.. because I was working on increasing my armswing speed while reaching high … in order to outreach and beat the block which helped me get my hand to the ball before the block could form well.
If you've ever played hand ball against the wall then this is one of the best hitting drills for volleyball spikers that you may already be familiar with.
But there's a catch in order to make it work for you..
But there's a catch in order to make it work for you..
When you hit the ball you
As you get better at swinging faster... the key is to make contact on top of the ball at 12 o'clock and you'll notice that if you swing fast..
but if you swing slow..
If your armswing is really slow then the ball will even hit the wall which will force you to run and shag balls which becomes tiring.
Sooo quickening up your armswing is the solution to not having to keep running to shag your own ball.
If you have access to a box and a net you can work on your armswing speed like I'm doing with Madi...actually she's doing for herself with my instruction.
Toss a two ball t(that's a set that's 2-3 feet in the air) to yourself and then using correct armswing technique swing high, hard and fast to connect with the ball with the goal of increasing your armswing speed to the ball ...
Madi works on her arm swing while up on a box as one of our hitter volleyball drills in private training.
A volleyball hitter needs to have five important things:
To become a point-scoring front or back row attacker in volleyball, you have to adopt a fearless and aggressive attitude when it comes to hitting the ball against a two person block put up by the opposing team.
Hitter volleyball drills with a setter and hitting lines.
Doing a lot of hitting volleyball drills help build your confidence which should grow and develop as you do lots of reps in practice and private training when you repeatedly work on ball touches with different sets.
Check out some of the hitting volleyball drills I do in my practices and private training sessions which work on these skills.
In this drill I remind hitters that they have taken their last two steps in their spike approach and they should now see themselves as being in the air.
If you were actually hitting you would be in the air, you would pull back the elbow of your hitting arm, keeping it above the level of her ear while the arm is above your head.
Holding your elbow high and using a bow and arrow type movement to make contact with the ball so that it clears the net, you bring your hitting arm forward so it contacts the top third of the ball.
The fundamentals of a good hard volleyball spike armswing are...
Volleyball hitter drills like Two vs Two Skinny cross court are fun drills to work on hitting skills.
It's important when you spike the ball that your hand makes contact on the TOP third of the ball, if not then your spiked ball will not have a downward trajectory into the court, but instead will go sailing long towards the back wall and out of the court.
Hitting lines off a coach toss is a regular hitter volleyball drill done in practice and in pregame warmups.
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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.
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