Volleyball Hitting Drills for Power and Accuracy
Develop proper technique, footwork, and shot selection with volleyball hitting drills that build power, accuracy, and confidence at the net.
Volleyball hitting drills teach players how to combine footwork, timing, and arm swing to execute powerful and accurate attacks. These drills focus on approach mechanics, proper jump technique, and controlled contact to improve consistency and effectiveness at the net. By practicing shot selection and placement, athletes learn to hit around blockers, adjust to different sets, and apply constant offensive pressure during matches.
Volleyball Hitting Drills for Power and Accuracy
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 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 Middle Hitter Drill: Run the Middle!
This volleyball drill trains middle hitters to attack out of serve receive while improving timing, passing accuracy, and setter-hitter connection.
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 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 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 Hitting Drill: Endurance Hitting
This volleyball hitting drill develops endurance, attacking against a block, and defensive passing through fast-paced, continuous rotations.
Volleyball Hitting Drill: Bucket Ball
This volleyball hitting drill trains hitters to disguise attacks and execute effective roll shots by targeting a ball cart or bucket for accuracy.
Volleyball Serving Drill: Jump Serve Up/Down
This volleyball serving drill trains jump serve technique, teaching players to adjust arm swing direction with “thumb up” or “thumb down” calls for targeted serving.
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 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 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: Pass, Set, Down Ball
This volleyball ball control drill trains players to pass, set, and hit controlled down balls while reinforcing communication, decision-making, and accuracy.
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.
Quick Setter Transitioning Drill
This volleyball setting drill trains setters to transition quickly from base to net, improving timing, awareness, and offensive execution.
Serve Receive Transition to Hitting Drill
This volleyball drill practices serve receive and transitioning directly into hitting, reinforcing the connection between a quality pass and a successful attack.
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.
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.
3 Player Down Ball with Movement
This volleyball drill focuses on hitting a down ball to a specific area after a series of touches.
Volleyball Ball Control with Movement
This is a great drill to focus on ball control and movement on the court.
Volleyball - 2 Player Pepper Drill Multiple Hits
This pepper drill is great for working on ball control as it works on a variety of contact types.
Triangle Pepper Drill - Over the Net
This volleyball pepper drill will focus on the rhythm of passing, setting, and hitting over the net to a specific target.
Line Hitting Drill
This volleyball hitting drill focuses on hitting down the line as well as getting into a passing rhythm setting up the shot down the line.
Over the Net Pepper Drill
This warm-up will focus on ball control of a ball coming over the net. This volleyball drill will focus on digging, setting, and returning a controlled ball to their partner on the other side of the net.
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