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Index > Drills

Hitting Drills

Quick-Middle-Cross

setter-middle

middle hitting with feed from left

  • Feed from the left of the hitter
  • The middle has to watch the ball without being able to see the setter at first`, `and hit a quick attack

Adaptations can involve playing off a pass a pass and putting up a block to beat.

Quick-Middle-Open

setter-middle

middle hitting with feed from right

  • Feed from the right of the hitter
  • The middle has to hit a quick attack

Adaptations can involve playing off a pass and putting up a block to beat.

Standard-Hitting-Drill

line hitting

Simple hitting with someone else feeding

  • Have someone other than the hitter feed the hitter's ball
  • Hit a line ball through 4`, `with a block blocking cross court to a target passer at 1
  • Everyone (except the setter) then moves on one position
  • This can be run on both sides of the net and run as a chain

Piston

piston attack

simple piston attacking

  • The feeder (which can be from the next pair to go) feeds from between the 4 hitter and the middle
  • The hitters run a piston attack and the setter can choose either to set to
  • The 4 hitter tries to maintain the deception of the attack
  • Try to keep the pairs together so they can work together

Adaptations can involve adding a block to beat.

Pass-And-Hit

passing, rhythm

4 hitter passes then hits

  • The ball is fed to the setter, who hits a ball at the 4 hitter
  • The 4 hitter passes then transitions to their hit
  • The setter sets the hitter and they hit

4-Transition

transitions

setter and 4 hitter work on transitioning from different start points

  • The 4 hitter starts at the net, and the setter at 6 or 5
  • The feeder slaps the ball, then the setter moves to 2 1/2 and the hitter backs off the net
  • The feeder feeds the setter, who sets to the 4 hitter

Middle-Transition

transitions, work

chain of block, transition, attack

  • The feeder slaps the ball and the setter and middle both block
  • The feeder feeds the ball, the setter turns to track the ball and the middle backs off the net
  • The setter sets the middle for a quick attack
  • The pair then repeat until exhausted

Late-Tip

attack adaptation

Three hitting lanes off a pass, but the coach calls what they have to attack

  • The feeder feeds a ball to the libero, who passes to the setter and the team run 3 hitting lanes
  • The hitters should hit the corner targets on a hit and the trolley/target on a tip
  • The coach calls what they attackers have to do
  • The coach can try calling later and later, up to the point of calling after the hitter jumps

Middle-Block-Hit

block and hit, work

middle's running a chain of swing block and then hit

  • The feeder slaps the ball, then feeds the ball to the libero
  • The middle blocker swing blocks out to 4
  • If the ball beats the blocker, the libero passes to the setter
  • The middle has to land and get off the net so that they can run a quick attack

Middle-4-Stack

rotation, middle

The middle hits a chain of stack-and-hit runs from 4

  • The feeder feeds a ball to the libero at 5
  • The middle has to transition from 4 and run a quick attack
  • The players then reset and go again

Middle-2-Stack

rotation, middle

The middle hits a chain of stack-and-hit runs from 2

  • The feeder feeds a ball to the libero at 1
  • The middle has to transition from 2 and run a quick attack
  • The players then reset and go again

Back-Court-Lanes

back-court-attacks

Running back-court attacks from different lanes

  • Run any of 3 possible lanes
    • 10 ball on the side line
    • Pipe attack from between 1 and 6
    • Pipe attack from between 5 and 6
  • Have a separate feeding queue for each lane
  • This requires accurate setters`, `and mustn't have a block (too many balls floating around)

4-Pair-Pass-And-Hit

pass as a unit

Two passers running their hitting lanes

  • Have passers at 5 and at 6 and feed a ball for them to pass to the setter
  • The player at 5 then transitions to hit thorugh 4 and the player at 6 runs a pipe attack
  • The setter can set to the non-passer or to the passer`, `whichever the coach wants to work on

Controlled-Targets

attack control

  • The ball is fed to a libero to pass to the setter
  • The setter can set either hitter
  • The coach can give instructions on which targets the hitter is supposed to hit