A good volleyball defensive player definitely needs to have three important skills including
If you're a defensive volleyball player like a
another very important skill you need to have is to have a very aggressive attitude in the backrow.
Let's start with the mental attitude, since its super important.
Aggressiveness is a mindset. It comes from how you think and feel about playing defense while you are on the court.
A good libero or backcourt volleyball defensive player tells himself or herself things like:
Since digging a volleyball is the last line of defense used by a team's backrow players in an effort to keep the opposing team's attacked ball from hitting the floor, its important for backcourt defenders to go "all out" in covering large parts of the court floor to pick up any balls the opposing team hits.
One way you can work on improving your defensive mindset and aggressive attitude in the backcourt is to use the pepper drill
Here's your chance to practice two things during pepper:
Whether you have to
The pepper drill gives you a chance to challenge yourself about not letting any balls that are about to fall in your immediate area hit the ground without you aggressively making a move to keep them off the floor.
The pepper drill gives a volleyball defensive player a chance to focus on getting the ball right to your partner while keeping up the intensity of your pepper warmup, even if you have to do it with alot of distracting elements happening around you.
The ball you get and the ball you give in pepper practice gives you a chance to do that.
The better you get at increasing your focus in warmup, the better you get at focusing and concentrating and being able to narrow your focus during a game.
This way crowd noises, whistles, opposing fan noise, referee interruptions, cat calls and other game time distractions will have little effect on you.
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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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