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Volleyball: Amoeba serve game

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The drill starts with a player from each side serving a ball. They then go and sit down where their serve landed - assuming it went in (if not they join the back of the line and will have to serve again in a minute).
The rest of the players then start serving, trying to serve to their teammate on the other side of the net. If successful and their team-mate catches the ball, they go join them.
The drill ends when one team has all of their players reach the other side.

COACHING POINTS

As the drill goes on there will be a growing target on the other side of the net. This makes the drill easier for players who struggle with their serving.

You'll also probably find your players encouraging one another and being supportive which will help improve team chemistry.

PROGRESSION

To make this harder you can enforce the rule that the seated player must catch the ball for the serve to count.

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Three Ball Game - Keep it up!:

3 balls in play, teams of 4 in each half of the court.

Each court has 1 ball which they must pass around constantly, with all players participating.

At the same time, each team attempts to pass another ball back and forth between the teams, with the aim of getting the ball to land on the opposition's side of the court.

9 Conditioned games

2 Player Serve:

Players 1 and 2 serve 5 balls each. Players 3 and 4 pass the ball to player 5 who catches the ball and rolls it back under the net to the servers. Servers should try and serve into the open court to make it difficult for the receivers

MVT:SERVING

Grassroot serving:

2 players, 1 ball. The player serving has to hit the ball over the net so that the other player can catch the ball.

If they are successful 3 times in a row the player can take a step back and move closer to the back line.

Once players reach the back line they can swap roles.

7 Serve Drills

Bounce Game:

Players work in pairs with one ball.

Players play within a section of court and are attempting to get the ball to bounce twice to win a point.

Players can catch the ball in one hand to the side of them, moving up and down with the motion of the ball as they catch and release the ball.

VSD:GRID GAME

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