Volleyball Serving Drills for Accuracy and Consistency

Improve accuracy, power, and consistency with volleyball serving drills that train athletes to deliver effective serves under pressure.

Volleyball serving drills develop accuracy, consistency, and power to make the serve a reliable weapon in every match. These drills emphasize proper toss mechanics, contact point, and targeted serving to different zones on the court. By practicing float serves, jump serves, and spot serving, athletes learn to apply pressure, reduce errors, and build confidence in their ability to score points directly from the service line.

Volleyball Serving Drills for Accuracy and Consistency

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 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 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 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 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 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: Short Serve Competition

This volleyball serving drill emphasizes accuracy and control by challenging players to serve short inside the 10-foot line through a competitive scoring game.

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 Serving Drill: Individual Serving Relay

This volleyball serving drill improves accuracy and conditioning as players serve to zones, sprint to base positions, and return quickly in a relay-style competition.

Double Block Attacking Drill

This blocking drill teachers players how to face a double block.

Volleyball Serving Around the World

This drill allows players to practice serving to all six zones of the court.

Volleyball Serving Relay

This drill allows players to serve while under "game like" pressure.

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 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.

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!

Serving Corner Killer Drill

This drill focuses on serving to the corners of the opposing court.

12 Ball Wash Drill

This drill teaches back row attacking and how to defend back row attacks.

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.

Volleyball Corner Serving Drill

This volleyball serving drill focuses on serving accuracy to the corners of the court.

Serving with Partner

This is a great drill to teach players how to serve to a specific person or position.

Serving to 21

This is a great serving drill to teach players to serve to a specific zone.

Volleyball Serving Drill - Ten Zones

This volleyball serving drill will put pressure on the server to concentrate and make an accurate serve.