Around the World drill

A volleyball serving drill.

Whether your players are tough servers who can hit zones or if they are just starting out, this is a "game" you can play to practice serving and zone serving. Split your team into two teams, one team on each endline - one player from each team will go across the net to the other side and SIT (cross-legged) in zone #1 (right back). Players who are on the endline will now try to serve to their teammate who is across the net in zone #1, if the player in zone #1 can touch a legally served ball (on the fly, just by reaching - not moving her/his body from that position), then she/he shags the ball and joins her team on the endline to continue serving. The player who served the ball that was touched, now runs over to the other side of the net and sits down in zone #2 (right front). This drill continues until the team serving on the endline has hit a player in each of the six zones.

VARIATIONS:
1) Have teams go "around the world" 2x to end the drill
2) Require that players have to CATCH the ball in order to move to the next zone
3) For new servers, have your servers move in from the endline (so that they have more success) and have them just go across the front court three zones: 2, 3, 4 (repeat a 2nd time to make it a full 6 zones) - we did this at our BEGINNER camp and it worked great!
4) For a really strong serving team, add a penalty that the seated player has to BACK-UP one zone if a serve is MISSED!

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Drill presented by: Tina Jasinowski, Alter Girls’ & Boys’ Varsity Volleyball Coach

www.altervolleyball.com

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