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Volleyball Drills For Outside Hitters Fast Sets To The Outside Zone 5
Volleyball drills for outside hitters like Cal Poly outside hitter, two-time Gatorade Player of the Year and four-time Nevada State Champion,
Tommi Stockham
An aggressive spike approach combined with a fast arm swing helps produce the power needed to get a spiked ball to the floor faster. (photo Dan Morgan)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.
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I love this slow motion video which shows one of our volleyball drills for outside hitters with Tommi working on waiting until the last minute then coming in aggressively to hit a very fast 'Go" set to the outside - Zone 5.
Volleyball Drills For Outside Hitters Hitting Fast Sets To The Outside Hitter Training With Tommi Stockham - The Fast 'Go'
We were working on two things, first
- 'attacking the floor with her last two steps.'
When I say that I mean to use the floor as your trampoline and really exaggerate the heel-to-toe movement made with the last two steps of your spike approach which help really launch you in the air...
- a quick high reaching fast armswing
An aggressive spike approach combined with a fast arm swing help produce the power needed to get a spiked ball to the floor faster.
Volleyball Drills For Outside Hitters: Outside Hitter Tommi Stockham Hits Quicks To Quicken Armswing
Outside hitters need to be the most versatile athletes on the team.
In order to do that they should be able to hit different types of sets located along the net in front of the setter.
Different types of sets delivered at different speeds and different heights make outside hitters unpredictable, versatile and able to score points from different areas on the court along the net.
Being able to transition from defense to offense with specific footwork and consistently quick speed and technique makes it harder for the opposing team's blockers to know when and where you are going to attack next in a rally.
That's the goal for outside hitters...to make it difficult for opposing blockers to stop them from scoring.
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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.
Volleyball Drills:
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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.
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.
13 Ball Control Drills Volleyball Players Use Pepper To Help Defense
One of the first ball control drills volleyball players learn is the pepper drill a warmup drill used to increase and improve your ability to control the ball.
4 Volleyball Blocking Drills Players Learn To Stop Balls At The Net
These are four volleyball blocking drills players learn at our classes and training so that they learn to move quickly while staying close to the net.
7 Youth Volleyball Drills How To Improve Ball Control Skills At Home
I have a series of youth volleyball drills you can use to improve your basic ball control skills like passing, setting and controlled hitting.
Beginner Volleyball Drills You Can Do At Home To Improve Ball Control
These beginner volleyball drills are a series of setting and passing exercises to do to increase your reading and anticipation and your ball control skills.
7 Fun Volleyball Drills To Do At Home, Camp and In Volleyball Practice
Fun volleyball drills we do in Volleyball Voice Boot Camp class which you can do at home to improve your basic volleyball skills including digging and passing.
Volleyball Defensive Drills You Can Do To Help Your Dig Ball Control
3 hitting and digging volleyball defensive drills that you can do at home to help increase your ball control skills when playing defense in the back court.
Volleyball Skills Drills To Improve Digging and Spiking Ball Control
Here is a collection of volleyball skills drills that you can do in order to work on spiking and digging technique along with improving your ball control.
Volleyball Serving Drills For Beginners Learning To Underhand Serve
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.
Volleyball Drills For Beginners To Improve Volleyball Bumping At Home
For newbies who want to learn about at home volleyball drills for beginners looking to improve their ability to read the ball during their passing drills.
Volleyball Drills For Youth 8 Fun Drills To Improve Your Ball Control
8 volleyball drills for youth you can use to help you get your pass to your setter, your serve over the net, and good hand placement on the ball for your spikes.
Volleyball Passing Drills for Beginners For Players To Do At Home
Here are several volleyball passing drills for beginners to do at home with the focus being on beginner passers who need to pass the ball being served consistently
Setter Volleyball Drills - How To Improve Your Setting Skills at Home
These setter volleyball drills are great for setters and non setters who need to work on getting soft setter hands and setting repetition touches.
Volleyball Training Drills For Defense The Sprawl, Roll and Extension
How do you land safely on the floor after digging a ball? These volleyball training drills are for you to learn the extension, sprawl and the barrel roll.
Out of System Volleyball Drills Hitters Learn To Hit Imperfect Sets
If outside hitters get a perfect set its an "in-system" set. We do out of system volleyball drills so hitters learn how to hit and score with imperfect sets.
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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Congratulations to my seven Boys-18s Vegas Volley club players who played in two state championship finals yesterday, the 3A and 5A State champinship finals at Sunrise Mountain High School.
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