Volleyball pepper drills are the key especially, if you want to improve your defensive game and be a six rotation player who can play the entire match without having to come off the court.
I've chosen these two pepper skills that we regularly do in our Vegas Boot camp classes and clinics because they emphasize our type of volleyball training designed
1. Practice with someone bigger and better than you are
2. Use the Pepper drill to increase spiking and digging intensity while maintaining ball control
Let's dig deeper into these tactics...
When you get the chance to do volleyball pepper with a guy with good ball control skills, do it. Always.
Playing with a male or someone bigger, better or stronger than you are, makes you learn how to be a better, stronger, faster defensive volleyball player in a shorter amount of time.
I have coed Boot Camp classes on purpose so that girls learn to pepper and defend against bigger faster guys their age or older.
Guys hit harder and move faster and have an aggressive attitude that girls need to adopt while digging and playing defense.
Surround yourself with people/players who are better than you are, learn from them and have them make you work hard and challenge you and you will become a better volleyball player alot faster.
The Pepper warmup drill is one of the best opportunities for you to practice the individual volleyball digging and hitting skills using the correct technique you need to improve your game.
Every opportunity you have to touch the ball should be used to contact the ball correctly.
Many players take pepper for granted and since the ball is coming at them slowly, they flake, and ignore using the proper technique.
Hitting the ball with a low elbow in pepper means you increase the chance you’ll hit the ball low in hitting warm-ups and continue hitting the ball low in a game.
Watch how we do the Volleyball Pepper . Drill in Boot Camp class.
Volleyball Ball Control Drills: 30 Second Pepper Warmup Drill For Conditioning and Ball Control
They start hitting the ball lowering their elbow instead of hitting the ball the way they would when they are at the net.
In boot camp classes we make sure players remember...
Passing the ball with your legs, setting the ball high giving your partner time to swing and reach high to hit back at you... all these volleyball pepper techniques should be practiced in your pepper warmup so that at game time-- you've already performed these skills so many times that that your muscle memory is automatic and you begin to perform these skills the same way you need to perform them in competition.
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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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