Lesson : Ball Control

Drills
• Learning how to control your hits when it is
just you is an excellent way to kickstart
your ball control skills for this game of
volleyball. This allows you to be able to
gauge how hard or easy to hit the ball in
order to maintain a controlled hit. These
are also drills that you can do at home to
help you be ready for the next time you
are on the court.
Solo Ball-Control Drill
 Solo Ball-Control Drill
• The solo ball-control drill is one of the few
volleyball drills a player can do individually.
The players spread out on the courts to
give themselves room to move. Each
player has a ball, and the goal is to keep
the ball in the air and under control for as
long as possible.
• Start with players bumping the ball to
themselves. Move to the players setting
the ball to themselves, then begin
bumping the ball with just the right hand,
and switch to just the left hand.
• Lastly, have the players do a succession
of contacts—first a bump, then a set, then
bounce the ball off of their forehead, then
a right-hand contact, then a left-hand​
contact, and repeat. So the succession is:
bump, set, head, right, left, repeat.
 Activity 1:
• do the solo ball-control drill
• (Keep players going for a few minutes at
each skill. If the ball drops or the player
cannot contact the ball with the proper
skill, they do one (1) pushups or situps
and then continue with the ball-control skill
at hand.)
 Activity 2
• Ball Control while walking
– do the ball control while walking