Volleyball Defensive Drills for Stronger Team Defense

Enhance individual and team defending with volleyball defensive drills that build quick reactions, solid positioning, and reliable coverage.

Volleyball defensive drills develop quick reactions, proper positioning, and reliable coverage to strengthen both individual and team defense. These drills train players to read attackers, move efficiently, and dig balls with control, ensuring rallies stay alive. By practicing defensive techniques consistently, athletes build confidence, improve coordination with teammates, and create a stronger foundation for winning matches.

Volleyball Defensive Drills for Stronger Team Defense

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 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 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 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: Two-Way Pepper

This volleyball pepper drill develops ball control, communication, and awareness by alternating straight and cross-court down ball exchanges over the net.

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 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 Warm-Up Drill: Back Row Running Warm-Up

This volleyball warm-up drill combines passing, setting, and back row attacking with constant movement, communication, and ball control.

Volleyball Offense vs. Defense Drill: Sideout or Lose

This volleyball drill emphasizes the importance of first-swing sideouts, encouraging aggressive offense and strong teamwork against live serves.

Volleyball Competitive Drill: Reverse Sideout Game

This volleyball drill emphasizes offensive termination by rewarding points only when a team successfully wins a rally off serve receive.

Volleyball Competitive Drill: Offense vs. Blockers

This volleyball drill trains hitters to attack against a live block while blockers focus on forming doubles and making strong touches at the net.

Volleyball Offense Drill: Kill Drill

This volleyball drill emphasizes the importance of terminating rallies with a kill, training hitters to attack aggressively while defenders work to extend plays.

Volleyball Blocking Drill: Double Block Attacking

This volleyball drill trains hitters to attack against a double block while blockers refine positioning, timing, and footwork to shut down the offense.

Volleyball Defense Drill: Touch Ten

This volleyball defense drill trains players to move aggressively and touch 10 balls while reading hitters and reacting quickly to attacks.

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 Ball Control Drill: Two-Person Four Square

This volleyball ball control drill uses a two-player four-square game format to improve down ball accuracy, teamwork, and communication.

Volleyball Ball Control Drill: Elimination

This volleyball ball control drill challenges players to pass, set, and hit with precision, aiming attacks directly at opponents in a competitive elimination format.

Volleyball Back Row Attack Drill: Ping Pong

This volleyball back row attack drill builds ball control and teamwork as players pass, set, and hit from behind the 10-foot line in a competitive ping pong format.

Volleyball Back Row Attack Drill

This volleyball drill trains players to execute back row attacks from behind the 10-foot line while improving passing, setting, and team offense under pressure.

Volleyball Net Save Drill

This volleyball net save drill teaches defenders how to dig balls out of the net, improving reaction time, ball control, and recovery in tough defensive situations.

Volleyball Double Serving Game

This volleyball serving game emphasizes effort and competitiveness by rewarding teams that fight for every rally while serving in a double-serve format.

Volleyball Coverage Drill

This volleyball coverage drill trains players to cover their hitters, react to blocked attacks, and maintain rallies through proper defensive positioning.

12 Ball Wash Drill

This volleyball wash drill teaches back row attacking and defending while building competitive game-like intensity and teamwork.

Middle Back Defensive Positioning and Movement

This defensive drill focuses on the middle back player's movement around the back of the court.

Volleyball 3v3 Drill - Reading the Block

This volleyball 3v3 drill is great to teach your offense how to read and react to the defense. Players are forced to read whether the defense has blockers and must react to each scenario.