Volleyball Drill-Book: Beginner (Level)

- 6.4 Defense Drills under simplified conditions

Teaching Points:

Equipment:

Every player is holding a ball

At first the players should practice the slide

movement in slow-motion; later increase speed
with every try (use socks above the hands of the
players in order to slide better on the ground)
start with short distances to the ball and enlarge
the distance step by step

Drill Objective:
Creation of a movement concept
concerning different defensetechniques in the course of falling

Drill Description:
Learn how to fall without holding a
ball: 1) Start with kneeling, 2) then
crouching, 3) later standing 4) and
finally running. Proceed with sliding
actively over the floor along the right
side of the body.

Drill Variations:

93

Shortly before the player hits the

ground with arms and hands,
he/she throws a tennis- or
volleyball up into the air (the
initial impulse starts in the wrist)
A partner sets balls in various
directions; the task is to defend
them all (including sliding
actively over the floor)
Competition: who can slide the
furthest (including a run-up and
take-off from a starting line)

2012 Dr. Christian Krger FIVB Instructor I/II- GER