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.
Double Block Attacking Drill
This blocking drill teachers players how to face a double block.
Volleyball Defense: Touch Ten
This volleyball drill will teach the defensive player to be aggressive and ready to move.
Volleyball: Passing Free Balls to Setter
This volleyball drill helps players understand proper movement for free ball transition, when passing to the setter.
Free Ball: Pass, Set, Cover, and Catch
This volleyball drill teaches players how to get into a free ball offense.
Volleyball 24 Touches - Ball Control
This drill is to practice ball control as a warm up to hitting, while working on communication and teamwork between players.
Ball Control: Pass, Set, Downball
This volleyball drill teaches how to hit a down ball to a desired location as well as work on communication skills between players.
Volleyball Ball Control: Two person Four Square
This volleyball drill increases accuracy in down balls to desired locations while also increasing communication skills between players.
Volleyball Ball Control Elimination
This elimination drill teaches players how to pin point exactly where they want their hit to go.
Volleyball Back Row Attack: Ping Pong
This ball control drill is designed to teach the pass, set, hit tempo from behind the volleyball ten foot line.
Back Row Attacking Drill
This fast paced drill will focus on back row attacking from behind the ten foot line.
Quick Setter Transitioning Drill
This fast paced drill is to teach the setter how to quickly transition to the net.
Serve Receive Transition to Hitting Drill
This is a great drill for players to work on serve receive and hitting at the same time.
Volleyball Double Serving Game
This volleyball drill teaches the importance of trying your best for every point and trying to get every ball!
Coverage Drill
This volleyball coverage drill will teach the team how to cover their hitters.
12 Ball Wash Drill
This drill teaches back row attacking and how to defend back row attacks.
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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