Question:
Do you have a good game drill?
2-on-6
Don't overlook 2-on-6 as a skill-teaching game. Although it seems grossly unfair at first, the game teaches huge amounts about reading setters and hitters, making plays on defense, communication with teammates, acccurate passing, and nearly every other phase of the game.
Have the 6-player team serve, trying to get the ball within a step or two of one of the 2-player teammates. Don't have the 2-player team try to block. Rather, get down and play defense.
It's a great drill, fun and enormously helpful in developing defensive toughness.
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Three Pile
Here's a drill that incorporates many skills, can be played as a game, and players really seem to enjoy: three pile.
Start with 3 players, laying on top of each other. At the signal, the coach tosses a ball high onto their court. The players must quickly unpile, call out who has the first hit, get into position to set, and run the best play they can.
It's great for quickness, team unity and communication, and all the intendent skills, yet it's usually accompanied by quite a bit of laughter, too, which is good to break up practice every now and then.
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1-on-1 Serving-Passing Game
Here's a game that directly pits servers against passers and although it's a 1-1 game, it can involve as many as 6 players at the same time.
Have one player stand at endline with a ball (the server) and one player directly opposite on the other side of the net (the passer). A third player stands at center front, by the net (as a target for the passer).
The server must serve the ball within one step of the passer. If the serve is good, the passer must pass the ball within one step of the target.
A point is given the server for a good serve. A point is awarded the passer for a perfect pass. The first player to 3 moves to the target position. (The loser stays where they are.) The target then changes position with the person who won.
It's a fun and competitive drill, improving serving and passing accuracy.
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6-0 Game
Having your team play a game employing the 6-0 system can be fun, but it also allows players who don't set the opportunity to see, first-hand, how difficult it is to try to run an offense when the passes aren't good. (And maybe begin to concentrate on passing better when they get back into a passing situation!)
The 6-0 involves having whoever is in Right Back set. Our players love it, because some of our big kids who never get to play back row, much less SET, get to find out what it's like to scramble for a badly-bumped pass.
It's helped our teams focus much better, since they can now identify with what their setter is going through.
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Bonus Ball
"Bonus Ball" helps teams concentrate and focus. Here's how it works. The coach will randomly toss balls into play, and the 2 teams will play until the ball is dead. The team putting the ball away wins one rally.
But a team must win 3 rallies to earn a chance at the "bonus ball," and only the bonus ball can score a point.
Teams rotate ONLY after scoring a bonus ball point. The drill continues until one team has rotated all the way around.
It's a great game for endurance, concentration and creating an intensely competitive atmosphere.
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Bonus Ball, Variation 3
A third variation of "Bonus Ball" is only for teams that are very unequal in ability. It allow the lesser-skilled team to only have to win one rally to score, while the upper-level team still must win 3 rallies to earn their chance at a bonus ball.
Again, this makes the upper-level team have to focus and work hard to earn their points, much like in a tight game situation.
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Ping Pong Serving
Here's a drill to emphasize serving. We call it Ping Pong, because it allows the serving team to serve 5 times before rotating.
We use rally scoring, to empasize the importance of each serve. Then each ball is played to the end, and the team putting the ball away is awarded a point.
We keep going until we've gone through all rotations, which means each team will serve the ball 30 times. If we're tied 30-30 at the end of the game, we play one more point, announcing it with great fanfare, to try to recreate the pressure of serving for game point in the 5th game of a rally-scored match.
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The Weird Sequence Game
"Weird Sequence" Game
Here's an interesting idea to help players develop a sense of their entire bodies, which will help them react much quicker to emergency situations:
Besides regular "pepper," practice hitting the ball with your forearms, back of the hand and fist. It's a great game for two people. The first player makes up a sequence such as "pass, set, fist, pass" and the other
tries to copy it. If they do, it's their turn to make up a sequence.
It's a great game to help develop body-ball awareness.
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Ping Pong, Variation 2
Another variation of Ping Pong has the teams playing to 45, rather than going all the way around. That way, if a team is ahead by some huge margin, the other team doesn't stop trying, knowing there's no way they can win.
Ping Pong is a good end-of-practice drill, competitive and requiring endurance, all in a pressure situation.
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Bonus Ball, Variation 2
Another variation of "Bonus Ball" involves having both sides rotate after each bonus ball point, and declaring a winner when one side has reach 6 bonus ball points.
This variation minimizes the possibility that one team might get stuck in a rotation and never be able to recover, keeping the game more competitive.
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