Ultimate Volleyball Drill Series

with Debbie Brown,
Head Coach, University of Notre Dame,
former Olympic athlete and coach

Coach Brown demonstrates more than 15 drills to help improve your blockers' hand technique, footwork, one-on-one blocking skills, and their ability to read the setter. Drills work both the outside block and the middle block and front sets and back sets. Throughout the video, Brown discusses what a coach should look for during the drills and describes proper technique for blocking.

29 minutes. 2001. ISBN 1-56404-703-2.

Jim Stone,
Ohio State University Head Coach

The objective of this video is to create accurate, consistent setters. The tape includes more than 25 drills to train hand placement, footwork patterns along the net and off the net, jump setting, back setting, tipping, and hitting out of the net. All of these drills can be run using four or less people. A great tool to teach this most important position!

51 minutes. 2001.ISBN 1-56404-704-0.

Russ Rose,
Penn State Head Coach,
1999 NCAA National Champions!

More than 25 drills to get your athletes as many touches as possible in practice! Rose quickly covers the basics of defense and passing and then gets right into the drill work. These drills include partner drills, team drills, and competitive drills. This tape includes everything from warm-up drills to Rose's famous "Pit" drill for training athletes to go for every ball!

44 minutes. 2001. ISBN 1-56404-705-9.

with Mike Hebert,
University of Minnesota

Using game footage, Hebert illustrates the six most common "transition moments" in volleyball. These transition moments include: Defense to offense, defensive base to defensive read, serve reception to attack, serve to defensive base, coverage to attack, and chaos to order. Next he demonstrates drills to teach your players how to react in each of these situations, where to position themselves on the court, and what footwork you want them to use to get to their positions.

39 minutes. 2001. ISBN 1-56404-706-7.

Russ Rose,
Penn State Head Coach,
1999 NCAA National Champions!

This collection of unique drills will spark your team's competitive fire! Great drills for stressing the importance of teamwork and letting your team play the game of volleyball versus working on individual skills. Each drill uses the "Wash Scoring System": teams play a series of two-ball rallies and must win both balls to score a point, otherwise, it's a wash and no points are scored. This allows you to handicap the scoring of the games and control how the balls are delivered into play when you have a great deal of talent on one side of the net and lesser talent on the other side. The drills also allow you to separate your starters and force them to compete against each other.

40 minutes. 2001. ISBN 1-56404-707-5.

with Jim Moore,
Head Coach Northern Michigan;
former Chico State Head Coach

Coach Moore demonstrates drills and games for six areas of volleyball: serving, passing, setting, attacking, blocking, and defense. Moore begins with a quick review of the proper techniques for each of these areas as well as key words and phrases you can use to instill these skills in your athletes. Next he shows three drills or competitive games for each area that you can use with your team to train these skills. A great general purpose video!

40 minutes. 2001. ISBN 1-56404-708-3.

with Tom Keating,
former Dubuque Wahlert High School (IA) Head Coach;
11x State Champs!; more that 770 career victories; seven-time Iowa Coach of the Year and national coach of the year in 2003

This tape covers six areas of attacking and drills to better your athletes in each areas. The six areas include: Hitting techniques, free ball transition attack, side out attack, block transition attack, dig transition attack, and overpass attack. Each set of drills progresses from simple to complex incorporating individual movement patterns and ultimately full-blown team drills.

53 minutes. 2001.

with John Dunning, Head Coach,
Head Coach Stanford University,
2004 & 2001 NCAA Champs;
former University of Pacific Head Coach,
1985 & 1986 NCAA Champions

Coach Dunning shows you how to raise the skill level of your athletes through the use of "single item focus training", that is, training your athletes by focussing on one skill per drill. These team drills train passing, attacking, serving, blocking, and transition game. By adjusting the difficulty of the drill, you can build confidence in your athletes by catering to their ability level. The drills on this video range from simple to complex so you can build the appropriate progression for your team!

45 minutes. 2001. ISBN 1-56404-710-5.

with John Dunning, Head Coach,
Head Coach Stanford University,
2004 & 2001 NCAA Champs;
former University of Pacific Head Coach,
1985 & 1986 NCAA Champions

Ball control plays an important role in volleyball. Dunning demonstrates drills that can be used in a team setting or used by athletes on their own. He includes drills for general ball control, passing, setting, attacking, serving, digging, and "desperation plays" such as getting the third hit over the net, playing the ball off the net, and playing the ball near the scorer's table, to name a few. A great video to help keep your practices fun and interesting!

49 minutes. 2001. ISBN 1-56404-711-3.

See all the items in this series!

• Essential Drills for Blocking
• Ultimate Setting Drills
• Drills for Defense and Passing
• 15 Drills for Training Transition
• Competitive Wash Drills
• Drills and Games for Championship Volleyball
• Drills for Training the Attack
• 15 Single Focus Team Drills
• 25 Ultimate Ball Control Drills