Fun Volleyball Drills – Building Teamwork and Unity

To volleyball enthusiasts all the volleyball drills are fun, but practicing the following volleyball strategy could be the most exciting of them all.

For the coach it is exciting to see players having fun and working on teamwork and unity. The players find these volleyball drills and working together thrilling and rewarding.

These fun volleyball drills are built on teamwork and to motivate players to play for the team. They help players to understand the importance of teamwork and how to play volleyball.

This article introduces a very simple scheme; offense combined with coverage, which is often goes almost unnoticed in the volleyball strategies.

Coverage is overlooked because it is not considered very important and players rarely focus on performing it correctly. This article explains why it is important for any volleyball team and how it can be served as fun volleyball drills.

To be specific this article focuses on hitting an intended swing to the block, which supposed to be covered and dug up by the team defenders.

When to use it?

It is a good idea to use it when the opponent have a perfect two or three men block in front of the hitter, or the hitter is in the bad position to get a straight kill.

Why to do it?

If the hitter just delivers fairly easy ball over the net, it is very likely that the opponent digs a perfect pass to the setter and the opposite team will score the point with their offense. Instead of doing that it is a good idea to swing surprisingly soft spike to the block and cover it up for the setter.

How to do it?

It is important that the offensive player doesn't swing the ball with the full power because that ball is extremely difficult, often impossible to cover. Softer swing to the block gives the teammates an opportunity to cover the ball successfully.

We understand this team building aspect better when we look at this from the perspective of offensive player and defensive player.

Offensive Player

For the offensive player it is important to know that teammates, defensive players are there to cover and dig the ball, which is reflected back by opponent's block.

The spiker needs to know that he has an option to swing the ball to the block and his teammates will get the ball back to play. It is a big help for offensive player to have one more option in his offensive repertoire.

Defensive Player - Player on the Coverage

Making coverage an important part of volleyball strategy is a big confidence booster for the defensive players, they feel they have an important role in team's offense.

Defensive players are more motivated to play their part since defenders know they are a crucial part of offense, not just the offensive players. This method will give defenders extra motivation to cover the ball up.

• When coach is setting offensive-coverage drill it is extremely important to keep things very simple. Coach should not allow offensive players perform anything else, but hitting the ball to the block, otherwise this drill will lose its purpose and the ball is very rarely reflected back from the block.

• To make sure the ball reflects from the block often coach can use the blocking equipment to block the ball. Even better is to use players who stand on the boxes with their hands up above the net.

• In addition coach should have one or two defensive players to dig the ball up and a setter who sets the ball to the offensive player.

• Please notice that swinging the ball to the block requires a very experienced player - it could be needed that coaches themselves will act as a hitter to make sure the ball will be hit to the block repeatedly.

• If this is the case in your team, the hitters obviously need to practice their hitting accuracy. They could be practicing it elsewhere while setters and defenders are working this drill with one of the coaches as the hitter.

It is important to notice these volleyball drills are very advanced - they are not made for the beginning volleyball players. On the other hand by adjusting and easing up these fun volleyball drills coach is able to make the drill suitable for any skill level.