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Volleyball requires skills of mobility, balance and jumping. Focus on teaching the following skills:
Teaching players to toss the ball properly will be some of the best time ever spent. Once players can toss the ball properly, you'll have more time to coach and instruct. Tossing Tossing is important, yet often overlooked, part of running effective drills. Tossing the ball with no spin makes learning and performing other new skills much easier. Once players learn to toss, they can run their own drills under your supervision. With your feet shoulder-width apart, demonstrate a soft, two-handed toss from below the waist to a partner who catches it just above the head. Emphasize that there is no spin on the ball and the toss is high and soft. Have each player practice this with a partner who is about 10 feet away. This will take a lot of practice so be patient. Serving Besides putting the ball in play, the serve can be an effective way for a team to score points quickly. A good server can boost his or her team to victory. The server may choose to server underhand or overhand. In youth volleyball, the server is usually better off mastering the underhand serve first.
Forearm
Passing
The
forearm pass is for receiving serves and spikes, for digging balls that
are no more than waist high, and for playing any ball that has gone into
the net. There is no swing of the arm to the ball but rather the player
allows the ball to come to their arms.
The
forearm pass begins with a good ready position. Have your players stand
with their feet shoulder width apart, toes turned in slightly, and the
right foot just slightly ahead of the left. As they bend at the waist
and flex the knees, their weight should shift slightly forward onto the
balls of their feet. They should keep their heads up and follow the ball
while keeping their knees bent and their weight over the balls of their
feet. The palms and thumbs of the hands should be facing close together
and pointed towards the floor. The arms are extended away from the body
in about a 45 degree angle. Prior to contact flex the legs. After contact,
the arms follow through and direct the ball to the target.
Overhead
Pass
The
overhead pass is any pass contacted above the players head. The best known
overhead pass is the set, which is usually the second contact made in
setting up an attack. The players should stand with their feet shoulder
width apart, the right foot slightly in front of the left. The knees are
bent slightly and the weight is on the balls of the feet. The players
should raise and cup their hands above the forehead, waiting for the ball.
The wrists are cocked back and the fingers are spread and relaxed, four
to eight inches from the forehead, as if holding a volleyball. Contact
the ball in the middle of the forehead, the pads of the fingers, not the
palm, should contact the ball. Whenever possible the player should square
their shoulders to the target. As contact is made, the player extends
the arms and legs up.
Hitting
Once
your players have the skills to set up a teammate for an attack (spike),
they will enjoy the excitement that great team play generates. Spiking
is the primary skill used to attack the ball, and it is usually the third
contact in the three-contact offense.
The
hitter (spiker) must be several steps from the net to have room for an
approach to hit the ball explosively. The player should be standing in
a relaxed position with arms comfortably at the sides. They should be
at the side of the court, about 8 to 12 feet back off the net, waiting
for the set.
The
most common attack approach is a four-step pattern. Left-handed players
start step 1 with the left foot, right-handed players begin with the right
foot. The player needs to explode from step 2 to step 3 to set up the
quick foot plant into the jump. The arms extend and swing straight back,
as high as possible on the third step. As the fourth step begins, the
arms drive forward in a full sweeping motion to help drive the player
off the ground to attack the ball. In contacting the ball think of the
arm as a whip and the hand as the tip of that whip. The snap of the whip
begins in the shoulder. The elbow of the hitting hand should be drawn
back, high and away from the shoulder. As contact is made, the hand should
be firm and open, hitting the top half of the ball with the palm. Contact
the ball at the one to two o'clock position. Follow through quickly. In
the follow through the arm should remain on the same side of the body.
The player can not touch the net with any part of the body.
Blocking
Good
blocking involves ability in timing and in reading the offensive hitter's
intentions. Players should understand that regardless of size, all players
can play an effective role as a blocker. The objective in blocking is
to block a hard-driven spike back into the opponent's court or to deflect
it high into the air on the blocker's side of the court. Without the block,
an offensive team's spike will most likely earn a point or a side out.
Players should stand facing the net with their hands held shoulder width
apart at head level. The hands should be open with fingers spread and
the palms facing the net. The knees are slightly bent and the weight is
on the balls of the feet. As the blocker jumps to block, the hands should
surround and smother the ball. The blocker's fingers are spread and angled
to deflect the ball toward the floor. The hands do not waive or flail
at the ball. The blocker moves along the net in a step-close-step footwork
pattern. The feet do not cross. Players should stay away from the net
and off the center line. In most cases the blocker should jump after the
attacker.
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