Beach Training » Drills Basic

The secret to setting a beach volleyball correctly

Tristo — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:04:38 +0000

This is the first in a three part series of short videos to help you get on the right track with your beach volleyball setting. This video shows what is probably the most important part of the entire movement, without which, it’s just about impossible to perform a good set.

It’s all in the wrists!

Backyard pre-season drill

Tristo — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:00:34 +0000

Here’s a little drill you can do in the backyard when you have a few minutes after work, or in the morning. It’s a great way to get an extra couple of hundred touches every day without traveling all the way to the beach. Doing little extra exercises like this every day leading up to the season can make a big difference when you get out on the sand.

Learn to shoot a beach volleyball

Tristo — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:19:03 +0000

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.

Pepper with setter – 3 players

Tristo — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:13:29 +0000

This is a really simple warm up with three players.

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.

Pepper with changing setter – 3 players

Tristo — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:59:31 +0000

This is another variation on the “pepper” that involves three players and quite a lot of running For that reason, it’s a very good warm up.

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

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

Step 2

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

Step 3

Player 3 sets the ball back to player 2, and follows the set, running to the other end
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…..