Drills for Volleyball Practice - Focus on Serving

Serve's Up

When looking for new exercises to practice volleyball, sometimes I like to group a series of exercises aimed at the same skill and ability to use half of their training time for regular exercise and half for the spotlight. The following are peak periods and are a good way to improve your team served skill and precision. Good service is essential to win a volleyball game, and while these exercises in your next practiceyou will begin to notice progress in your team's serving abilities.

Serving Golf makes me wanna yell 'Fore!'

The first of the serving drills for volleyball practice is called Serving Golf. Before you get any wild ideas about nine irons and sand wedges, the game is similar to golf only in the way that it's scored. Start by dividing the court into 6 areas, either mentally or with masking tape. The court division is as follows: area 1 is the right back, area 2 is right front, area 3 is the center front, area 4 is the left front, area 5 is the left back and area 6 is the center back.

The goal of the drill is to serve to each of the locations one at a time. You can either allow one player as many tries as they need to hit all 6 or else have players serve one ball at a time and keep track of where they are aiming. Make sure to keep count of how many serves it takes for each player to hit each area, and in the end add up the number of serves for their final score.

Not only does this drill build serving confidence, it also forces players to serve with accuracy, which can be a great way to exploit an opposing team's weak link, by constantly serving to the weaker player on their team.

Up next--Servers vs. Passers

This fun game is a great addition to your line up of drills for volleyball practice. Though it's a 1-on-1 game, by spreading out the pairs it can involve up to 6 players at once. At the beginning of the drills players have a booth at the finish line, while his partner is directly in front of them across the network. Player 1 and Player 2 is the server is the passer. A third player stands at the front center of the network, passers-by to act as a target for.

At the sound of your whistle, the server serves the ball toward the hole. If you want to serve in one passage of pedestrians, then the keeper has the ball in a passage of passporttarget. The point distribution is as follows: one point is awarded to the server for a good serve, and one point is given to the passer for a perfect pass. After one player reaches 3 points, they switch places with the target and both parties begin the game at zero points apiece.