Beach Training » 3 players http://beachtraining.com Beach Volleyball skills, drills and thrills Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:05:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 Learn to shoot a beach volleyball http://beachtraining.com/learn-to-shoot-a-beach-volleyball/ http://beachtraining.com/learn-to-shoot-a-beach-volleyball/#comments Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:19:03 +0000 Tristo http://beachtraining.com/?p=628 This is a great little drill that will help you to learn how to shoot a beach volleyball and see your opponent while you are making a shot.

The video shows it perfectly, sop not much to add apart from emphasising the importance of the coach in this drill. The coach should make big moves, so that he/she pushes the player to hit close to the line. It’s no good hitting a ball perfectly to the coach if he is standing 2 meters inside the side line. That is not the sort of shot you want to practice.

So if your coach is on the angle, make sure you practice your best sharp angle shot, not just an easy shot that the coach can catch. In most cases you don’t want to practice shots that land anywhere further than 50cm from the side line.

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One guy/gal sets the ball, and the other two do all the digging and spiking. It’s great setting practice, and if the passers are a bit rough is also good for fitness. the setter is constantly making short fast movements to the ball.

The setter always sets back to the player that passes the ball.

setter-pepper

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The diagrams below show how it works.

Start with player 1 and 2 next to each other at one end, and player 3 opposite at the other end.

Step 1

change-setter1

  • Player 1 sets to player 3, then runs to the other end (following the set)

Step 2

changes-setter2

  • Player 3 hits at player 2, who digs the ball back.

Step 3

change-setter3

  • Player 3 sets the ball back to player 2, and follows the set, running to the other end
    • Player 1 is now ready to step in for the dig
  • Player 2 hits at player 1

Continue in this sequence until you are warm, or bored, or both ;-)

Each player performs this sequence of skills:
Set
Run to the other end
Wait
Dig
Spike
Set
Run to the other end
Wait
Dig
Spike
etc…..

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