Volleyball Passing Drills To Do To Improve Your Passing In Volleyball

My clients consistently improve their passing skills with my volleyball passing drills including 1 passer vs 1 server, synchronized passing and more pass drills.

How do you get better at passing in volleyball?

The volleyball passing drills that I do are designed to help Vegas varsity players improve their passing skills in serve receive.?

When you pass a volleyball, you are

• transferring the ball from one player to another or over the net
• without letting the ball come to a complete stop
• while clasping both hands together at the wrists?
• contacting the ball on your forearms

Whether you call it?the volleyball bump, the?serve receive, the?underhand pass?or the?forearm pass?every player needs to?master the art of controlling the ball?while?passing in volleyball.

Your volleyball player passing ready position should have feet shoulder width apart, knees slightly bent, shoulders are over knees with arms extended straight out in front of you below the level of your belly button with your palms open and facing the ceiling. (Shots by Shanty/Mason/VegasVolley)

You do that by doing lots and lots of reps during?volleyball passing drills?which we do and practice in my semi private training sessions with clients and in my Boot Camp classes.

Kenny is working on his ball control precision and presenting the correct passing platform angle in order to get the ball to my hand without making me move. I'm holding my camera to film this video and tossing the ball to him to pass with my other hand.

Many times I like to start with a warmup passing drill where you go against the wall to focus on your passing technique before getting on the court and progressing to passing with a partner.?

Volleyball Passing Drills: How To Do Volleyball Wall Passing Drills At Home

Let's get into the specifics as to how you would do the volleyball wall passing drill at home.?

1. Take two big steps away from the wall?
2. Pick a spot on the wall that's 2-3 feet above your head.?
3. Use a piece of tape or chalk or identify the brick that you are going to pass EVERY ball to.?
4. Start passing to that spot.?
5. Every time the ball doesn't get to that spot, stop and start again.?
6. Do not finish until you've passed 25 balls to that spot. They don't have to be in a row at first. Just get 25 no matter how long it takes.

Here are some volleyball drills for youth that you can do at home?or in practice with a friend or teammate you are working out with at home or on their own or even during an open gym at your school.

Watch as Kenny and Jaylen work on controlling the ball to a consistent spot on the wall and then control the ball to themselves, then finally they control the ball to each other...repeatedly.?

How Do These 2 Volleyball Passing Drills Work Against The Wall?

If you can only pass one ball to that spot, great.

Work on passing two in a row. Then work on passing three in a row. Next goal..ten in a row.?

Make sure you stop and start again each time the ball doesn't get to the target. Each time it does, count it!

My tips on How to do wall passing drills...

Volleyball wall passing and wall setting drills can be done daily at home with a goal of at least 250 - 500 reps of various drills to keep your

-passing or setting technique, 
-angled platform work, 
-ball contacting skills and 
-control of the ball.....extremely sharp!

Pick a brick, a specific spot on the wall or mark a big X in chalk on a wall or use a basketball net or backboard ...no matter what you decide to use as your target... anybody walking by.... should be able to see exactly where the spot is that you are aiming for EVERY...single....time .

Do 3 to 5 sets of 100... five feet from the wall ....then side step two feet and repeat. Then step back and repeat.

Complete 300 to 500 passing repetitions

If you are passing the ball all around that spot and not hitting your target then you have work to do.

Your goal is to increase the amount of passes you can make to your target spot on the wall while maintaining good form and passing technique.         

Synchronized Volleyball Passing and Serving Drills

I love doing this drill and I know not many volleyball coaches in the United States do this type of training.?

Quite often with my clients, my club teams and my college players that I train I do synchronized serving and passing drills which forces both participants to?

• toss the ball at the same height and pace and?
• to time the serve arm swing so the serving hands of both servers contact the ball at the same time

Why do I do these types of volleyball passing drills?

What I find is that

• anyone with a slow arm swing, quickly learns that they need to quicken their arm swing up to match the pace and rhythm of the player they're serving with
• anyone who drops their elbow in the middle of their serve swing realizes that they need to keep their elbow high during the whole arm swing action to match the pace and rhythm of the player they're serving with
• anyone who frequently misses their serve has to work on focusing on how and where they contact the ball to insure it goes over the net
• anyone who needs to work on dealing with 'the pressure of serving over the net' this drill specifically works on dealing with that kind of pressure especially when how the drill is scored comes into play. For example, the way I score credit for this drill is that?

1. both pairs or both players have to get the ball in, in order to earn a point while?
2. the whole group has to make a certain percentage of serves in the court (usually anything over 50%)?
3. the pair or players who miss their serve are very aware that they are missing serves that don't help the team meet the team goal which is what happens in a game but this drill really emphasizes this point??
4. My groups or teams complete this drill once they meet their team goal which could be a certain percentage of serves in the court and/or within a certain amount of time

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