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Beginner (Ages 6-10)

Teach fundamental skills with beginner volleyball drills that focus on coordination, movement, and correct technique through repetition.

Beginner volleyball drills introduce players to the game’s fundamental skills while keeping training fun and engaging. These drills emphasize coordination, footwork, and body control, helping athletes develop proper technique through consistent repetition. By focusing on passing, setting, serving, and movement basics, beginners build a strong foundation that prepares them for more advanced volleyball skills and competitive play.

Beginner (Ages 6-10)

Volleyball Passing Drill: Middle or Lateral Decision-Making

This volleyball passing drill improves serve receive, ball control, and decision-making between inside-the-body and lateral passing.

Volleyball Passing Drill: Perfect Passes Repetition

This volleyball passing drill builds consistency, ball control, and defensive posture by focusing on perfect passes through high-repetition training.

Volleyball Serving Drill: Bombs Away! Short Serve Challenge

This volleyball serving drill improves short serve accuracy while challenging defenders to react quickly and anticipate ball flight.

Volleyball Hitting Drill: Turn, Go, and Hit Transition

This volleyball hitting drill practices defensive movement, diving recovery, and transitioning into an attacking approach against a live block.

Volleyball Passing Drill: 3-Touch Lateral Passing

This volleyball passing drill develops ball control and movement by training players to pass from midline and lateral positions with proper footwork.

Volleyball Serve Receive Drill with Two Servers

This volleyball drill improves serve receive by challenging players to pass short serves consistently to a target while rotating positions.

Volleyball Passing Warm-Up Drill: Passing Technique Path

This volleyball passing warm-up teaches players to stay low, move with control, and direct their platform to the target while improving footwork.

Volleyball Passing Drill: Passing Out of the Net

This volleyball passing drill teaches players to read and control balls rebounding off the net, improving anticipation, reaction, and ball control.

Volleyball Defense Drill: 4-Corner Pit

This volleyball defensive drill improves quick reaction, aggressiveness, and movement as players chase balls directed into four court corners.

Volleyball Defense Drill: Touch Ten!

This volleyball defense drill builds aggressiveness and reading skills as defenders work to touch ten attacked balls before rotating out.

Volleyball Passing Drill: Pass and Move

This volleyball passing drill trains players to move laterally, square to the target, and pass under game-like movement pressure.

Volleyball Passing Drill: Pass and Weave

This volleyball passing drill develops ball control, lateral footwork, and passing accuracy while keeping players low and balanced in movement.

Volleyball Serve Receive Drill: No Easy Points!

This volleyball serve receive drill emphasizes passing accuracy, offensive execution, and earning rotations through consistent swings under blocking pressure.

Volleyball Serve Receive Drill: Serve Receive Lines

This volleyball serve receive drill builds passing consistency as players practice receiving serves straight across the court and rotating quickly.

Volleyball Pepper Drill: Cross-Court Pepper

This volleyball pepper drill develops ball control, passing, setting, and down ball accuracy through continuous cross-court exchanges with a partner.

Volleyball Ball Control Drill: 25 Contact Challenge

This volleyball ball control drill develops passing, setting, and hitting skills while emphasizing communication, teamwork, and consistency through a 25-contact challenge.

Volleyball Ball Control Drill: Back Row Attacks

This volleyball drill improves ball control and communication while training players to execute purposeful back row attacks to specific court zones.

Volleyball Blocking Drill: Net Decision

This volleyball blocking drill trains players to read the ball at the net and decide whether to block, attack an overpass, or step back and pass.

Volleyball Warm-Up Drill: Tag Team Warm-Up

This volleyball warm-up drill keeps large groups active by combining passing, setting, tipping, and teamwork with a tag-in rotation system.

Volleyball Down Ball Drill: Down Ball Challenge

This volleyball drill develops hitting and digging skills by challenging players to execute and defend down balls behind the 10-foot line.

Volleyball Down Ball Drill: Partner Pass and Down Balls

This volleyball drill develops ball control through passing and down ball hitting in small groups, making it an effective warm-up for game-like rallies.

Volleyball Serving Drill: Serving Relay

This volleyball serving drill creates game-like pressure as teams compete in a relay to serve accurately and quickly to finish first.

Volleyball Passing Drill: Free Balls to Setter

This volleyball passing drill trains players to transition quickly on free balls, focusing on movement, communication, and delivering accurate passes to the setter.

Volleyball Free Ball Drill: Pass, Set, Cover, and Catch

This volleyball free ball drill trains players to transition, pass accurately, and cover hitters while running a controlled offensive sequence.

Volleyball Free Ball Drill: Transition and Catch

This volleyball free ball drill teaches players how to transition quickly and correctly into free ball positions while reinforcing communication and court awareness.

Volleyball Ball Control Drill: 24 Touches

This volleyball ball control drill develops communication, teamwork, and consistency as players pass, set, and hit while working together to reach 24 consecutive touches.

Volleyball Footwork Drill for Middles

This volleyball footwork drill trains middle hitters in blocking, transitions, and approaches while improving speed, timing, and body control.

Rapid Pass and Set Drill

This volleyball drill emphasizes quick passing to the setter and consistent outside sets, improving tempo, accuracy, and player rotation in free ball situations.

Volleyball Blocking Form Drill

This volleyball blocking drill improves footwork, timing, and communication between middle and outside blockers to close blocks effectively.

Volleyball Setters vs. Passers Game

This volleyball drill creates a fun game scenario where one team can only set and the other can only pass, improving control and teamwork under scoring pressure.

Double the Number

This ball control drill starts with partners and builds until the entire team is working together, improving passing, setting, and group communication.

Volleyball Warm-up with Wall

This volleyball warm-up drill uses a wall for players to practice basic skills, arm strength, and ball control while preparing for practice.

Volleyball Setting Game

This volleyball drill develops the overhead pass by requiring all players to set every ball, improving control, communication, and consistency.

3 and Over

This is a beginner drill for players to learn and understand the three touch rule.

Partner Setting and Overhead Passing Drill

This partner setting and overhead passing drill works on perfecting the overhead pass and setting in partners. In this drill, one player is working on their setting skills while the other player is only responsible for throwing the ball to the working player.