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Young Spikers' Drill
By: Coach Houser - CoachHoueser.com
Reward and Encourage as They Learn
Often when coaching players under the age of 14 you will find many of your players cannot run a proper attack approach after the ball was set. To fix this, use your time working on fundamentals and the other half on drills.
Coaches who allow them to learn the fundamentals wrong, HURT young players. However, that doesn't mean punish the mistakes. To stress "Spiking a ball with the PROPER approach," players will do it if you award them every time they conduct it properly. The head coach showed me a drill in 1995.
Follow his drill to get reward all players and give a special award to those that do it correctly.
- Six Players on each side.
- Run rallies with a modified scoring.
- Poke a ball to the Team A. If Team A spikes the ball on the third hit, they get ONE POINT, regardless whether it is a good hit or not.
Remember we are stressing the ability to get into the position to hit as well as how well they approach. - If Team A spikes a ball with a correct spike approach they get 3 POINTS.
- If Team B digs up the spike, the rally continues using the same scoring method.
- After the ball hits the floor, announce the score and start another rally tossing the ball to Team B, switching teams each time the ball hits the floor.
Variations
- Play 5 on 5 w/o Middle Blockers or 4 on 4 with a front row setter and no other front row players.
- Make drill easier by getting the ball over on the 3rd hit = 1 pt, spiking = 2 pts, and proper approach = 4 pts.
- Toughen it up by having them LOSE a point for not spiking the ball, 0 pts for a spike, and 2 points for a correct approach.
