Volleyball Passing Drills for Ball Control
Develop consistency and control with volleyball passing drills that train forearm passing and strengthen overall ball control.
Volleyball passing drills focus on building strong forearm passing technique and total ball control, which are essential for successful serve receive and rally play. These drills emphasize proper footwork, platform angles, and controlled movement to deliver accurate passes to the setter. By practicing consistently, athletes improve their ability to handle tough serves, maintain rally flow, and provide a solid foundation for the team’s offense.
Volleyball Passing Drills for Ball Control
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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: 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.
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 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.
12 Ball Wash Drill
This drill teaches back row attacking and how to defend back row attacks.
4 x 2 Pepper Drill
This drill will help practice ball control using different types of contacts.
Setters vs. Passers Game
This is a game situation drill which allows setting only for one team and passing only for the other team.
Double the Number
This is a ball control drill that starts in partners and eventually ends with the whole team passing/setting together.
Warm-up with Wall
A warm-up time for each player to warm up arms and shoulders before practice begins and at the same time be working on basic skills and ball control.
3 and Over
This is a beginner drill for players to learn and understand the three touch rule.
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.
Partner Forearm Passing Drill
This partner forearm passing drill works on perfecting the forearm pass in partners. In this drill, one player is working while the other player is only responsible for throwing the ball to the working player.
Individual Setting Drill
This is a individual volleyball setting drill that focuses on setting ball control and overhead passes. This setting drill can be performed at home or during training.
Individual Forearm Passing Drill
This is a individual passing drill that is intended to focus on learning the forearm pass and ball control with the forearm. This is a drill that can be done at home or in the gym during training.
Volleyball Passing Run Through and Short Pass
This is a great warm up drill that focuses on correct passing form when running cross court or short.
Circle Passing Drill
This is a basic warm up drill for players to learn ball control while passing.
2 Player Down Volleyball Passing Drill
This is a fun passing drill to teach players how to quickly move and pass a ball to a specified target.
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.
Volleyball Pass and Move with Simulated Blocks
This is a great passing drill that focuses on good passing technique as well as movement after the pass.
"W" Passing Drill
This is a great passing drill for beginners to learn to move to the ball and pass to the setter position.
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.
Setting Drill - Setting After a Bad Pass
This volleyball setting drill focuses on bettering the ball after a bad pass.
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.
Setting Drill - Triangle
This setting drill will focus on setting and passing overhead from different angles on the net and passing back to these targets.
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.
Volleyball Setting and Overhead Passing Warm-Up Dril
This volleyball warm-up drill develops setting and overhead passing skills while adding movement, teamwork, and game-like pressure.
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