Volleyball: two digs

Develop your players' defensive ability from the backcourt area through boosting their movement, ball control and communication skills.

Players line up in backcourt area.

The feeder throws the ball to either Zone 1, 6 or 5. Players' must dig the ball back to the feeder.

However, the player standing in Zone 6 must move to receive the balls sent to Zone 1 and 5. The player standing in zone 5 must move to receive the ball thrown into 1 or 6 and so on.

The two players not in the zonal area the ball has been thrown to must communicate with each other to see who will return the ball to the feeder.

Players stand in a row in the centre of the court facing the net. There should be two balls on the sidelines, either side of each player.

On the coach's whistle the players shuffle sideways to the ball on their left, imitate an underhand pass, then shuffle back to the centre of the court.

The players then repeat the action but move toward the ball on their right hand side.

Starting on the baseline the players run to the attack line where the ball has been placed.

The player then picks up the ball and throw it into the net in a way which will make it rebound back to them.

They player then digs the ball up, catches it and returns it back onto the attack line. The player then jogs backwards to their start position.

In pairs, the players stand on the service line facing each other. Player 1 has two balls.

Player 1 then throws a ball to his/her partner. Player 2 has to return the ball using an underhand pass to player 1 who has shuffled sideways toward the net.

Both players repeat this action until they reach the net, whereby they continue the action back to the service line.