Volleyball Drills For Youth Great Drills To Improve Your Ball Control

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. 

Here are some volleyball drills for youth that you can do at home or in practice with a friend or teammate you are working out with at home or on their own or even during an open gym at your school.

What are the six things we are working on in these youth volleyball drills to improve our ball control skills?

• Wide vision - when they first started doing this the partner on the end line was so focused on looking up at the ball that they didn't even know when their partner had left to go under the net.

• Staying behind the ball - when doing the dig-set-hit combination learn how to stay behind the ball so you keep the ball along with the net in your eye line …it helps you see more of the court.

• Ball control, ball control, ball control.

• Reaching high while learning what hand placement on the ball is needed to get the ball to the intended target.

• Target practice- consistently getting the ball where you want it to go (in this case to your partner but during your match—to an open spot on the court).

• Communication- talk talk talk.

We did it as a progression first.

With the person going under the net and staying on the other side for 2-3 reps before they came back under.

So they’d stay on the same side for 2-3 exchanges just to control the ball before going back under the net.

It took awhile to get a rhythm with the one partner going back and forth.

But we eventually got there. 

Carmela and Kenny work on a full court partner ball control volleyball drill. 

• Dig to yourself
• Set to yourself
• Down ball to your partner

What are they working on?

Reading the Hitter - so you know where to position yourself to dig their ball

Quick feet - quick reaction with hips below the level of the ball and straight elbows that control the ball on the dig

Controlling the first contact (dig) - so you can make a controlled second contact (set) from a balanced position without falling all over the place

Controlling the second contact (set) - so you can make a controlled third contact  (hit).

Hand placement on the ball - so you can direct it to go EXACTLY where you want it to go (in this case to your partner across the net but in most cases to an OPEN space on the opposing team’s court)

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Many of these volleyball drills for youth 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. 

Your three options are: 

1. You can learn more about Volleyball Youth For Drills by visiting the Related Links below.  
2. Follow the suggested reading on our Sitemap page  Learning How To Play (Sitemap)
3. Or visit the pages in the How to Play Volleyball section in the drop down menu at the top of the page to get started. 

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