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5 Volleyball Passing Tips: Essential Techniques to Fix Common Mistakes

These are 5 volleyball passing tips beginner players need to see that show how to improve your serve receive skills

5 Volleyball Passing Tips You Should Know: While passing many beginner passers think its a good idea to bend their elbows to scoop the ball to the target or they swing their platform when passing thinking that's what's going to help get the ball where they want it to go. volleyball-pass-passer- (photo by dan-morgan)5 Volleyball Passing Tips You Should Know: While passing many beginner passers think its a good idea to bend their elbows to scoop the ball to the target or they swing their platform when passing thinking that's what's going to help get the ball where they want it to go.

Are your passes flying out of bounds?

Getting frustrated with serves that seem impossible to control?

As a volleyball coach working with beginners, I see these challenges every day - and I know exactly how to fix them.

These five beginner passing drills address the most common mistakes I see players make, from swinging platforms to bent elbows.

Through my private training sessions and team practices, I've identified the exact techniques that help beginners develop consistent passing form.

Let me share the same fundamentals captured by 'Shots by Shanty' Shantalle Demerjian that have helped my players transform from uncertain passers into confident ball control specialists.


Volleyball Passing Tips: Essential Techniques to Fix Common Mistakes



These are 5 beginner passing drills volleyball passers should remember to do or not do in order to improve their passing skills including

  • avoid scooping your arms and winging your platform
  • keep platform arms straight and don't bend elbows
  • don't keep your arms too close to your body
  • beat the ball to the spot don't time the ball



Are you shanking passes?

Can you control the ball when you're being served by the opposing team? 

One of the most common mistakes I see beginners make is swinging their platform.

Here's how we fix that...


Volleyball Passing Tip #1: 
Avoid Scooping or Swinging Your Platform When Passing






While passing many beginner passers think its a good idea to bend their elbows to scoop the ball to the target or they swing their platform when passing thinking that's what's going to help get the ball where they want it to go.

You want to keep from doing either of these two movements because you won't be able to control the ball especially when you come up against tougher faster serves. 

Keep your elbows straight when passing no matter what... 

If your passes are flying everywhere except to target, you might be bending your elbows.

Let me show you the technique that helped my Vegas Volley players and assistant coaches develop consistent ball control..


Let me show you the technique that helped my Vegas Volley players and assistant coaches develop consistent ball control..(Shots by Shanty)Let me show you the technique that helped my Vegas Volley players and assistant coaches develop consistent ball control..(Shots by Shanty)

Volleyball Passing Tip #2
Keep Straight Platform Arms and Avoid Bending Elbows






When you form your platform with your forearms and thumbs pressed together side by side and pointed to the ground this keeps your elbows straight.

When passing you always want to keep your elbows straight and not bend them when you're contacting the ball. 

Having trouble with passes that go straight up in the air instead of inside the ten foot line or with balls that go back over the net?

Here's how proper platform positioning solves this common problem...


Volleyball Passing Tip #3
Avoid Swinging Their Platform
When Passing






Your "platform" is where the ball contacts your forearms  in order to transfer the ball to your intended target.

You want your platform to be held stable and sturdy and not pass the level of your belly button once you've passed the ball. 


You want your platform to be held stable and sturdy and not pass the level of your belly button once you've passed the ball. (Shots by Shanty)You want your platform to be held stable and sturdy and not pass the level of your belly button once you've passed the ball. (Shots by Shanty)

Volleyball Passing Tip #4
Swing Arms Or Keep Your Platform Too Close To Your Body






When you keep your platform too close to your body you are forced to swing your arms when you contact the ball.

When using correct passing technique you want to avoid swinging your arms when you pass because you are in less control of the ball and you increase the probability of the ball going right back over the net or staying close to you instead of being directed to the setter who's waiting at the net.

So lets solve the net issue. Do you always feel like you're late getting to the ball once it crosses over the net after being served?

This next technique has helped my players develop perfect timing...


Volleyball Passing Tip #5
Beat The Ball And Work on
Not Timing The Ball






As a passer you should work on

  • reading the server's body language,
  • armswing, then
  • tracking the path of the ball 

and getting enough information from what all these things are showing you so that once the ball is served you visually follow the path of the ball when its travelling to the net and then move to where you see the ball is going to land once it gets to your side ...and move fast enough to that spot BEFORE the ball gets there. 

That's what we call beating the ball to the spot....


If you get to the spot at the same time as the ball ..that's considered "late' because now you have to rush to pass the ball but if you're at the spot BEFORE the ball it gives you more time to get set up and create your perfect passing platform. Texas libero volleyball passing the seams and freeze the platform photo by Ralph AversenIf you get to the spot at the same time as the ball ..that's considered "late' because now you have to rush to pass the ball but if you're at the spot BEFORE the ball it gives you more time to get set up and create your perfect passing platform.

If you get to the spot at the same time as the ball ..that's considered "late' because now you have to rush to pass the ball but if you're at the spot BEFORE the ball it gives you more time to get set up and create your perfect passing platform.


Volleyball Passing Tips: Your Path to Passing Success


These fundamental passing techniques have helped countless beginners overcome their passing challenges.

They're the same drills I use every day with my Vegas Volley teams and private clients - proven solutions that work.

Ready to develop more advanced passing skills?

Check out my articles on 'Basic Volleyball Passing Techniques' and 'Volleyball Partner Passing Tips' for your next steps in passing development.

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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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