Volleyball open fitness center session sport concepts

I got here throughout this query in a Fb group on the lookout for recommendation on video games to run in volleyball open gyms:

I want your whole video games that problem gamers ultimately or one other, I’m a brand new varsity coach this coming season. With the way in which guidelines are in Michigan I can provide them actions to select from but it surely can’t be drills or lineups so extra 2v2, 3v3, management, ball placement, or hitting/serving video games the place the entire gamers are collaborating directly and I’m just about not wanted apart from to clarify setup and guidelines.

There are SOOOO some ways to go along with this!

This coach is mainly speaking about making a pool of video games which are fairly simple for the children to run themselves. That being the case, I might assume when it comes to two issues – construction and focus.

Focus

Let me begin with the second first. As I harp on in The Excellent Drill, each exercise wants a particular focus. I might usually advise the narrower the higher. When it’s the children working issues, nevertheless, going barely broader might be higher. For instance, for a slim focus drill you may work on “serve obtain in opposition to deep serves” whereas with the children working it you possibly can in all probability simply go away it at “serve obtain”.

With that perspective in thoughts, it in all probability is smart to provide you with a listing of focus factors. Relying in your stage of play, they could so simple as basic themes across the main expertise. Or they may very well be centered round totally different sport conditions and/or offensive performs you they’ll work on. Craft the listing to match your objectives.

Construction

I’m defining construction right here to be the variety of gamers concerned in your volleyball open fitness center and any required configuration. The primary half is kind of easy: 2v2, 3v3, and so forth. The second half has extra variability. On the one hand it covers dimension/form of the courtroom. For instance, short-court or slim courtroom (like once you run two video games side-by-side on the identical courtroom). You can additionally think about one thing like Zone 6 is out-of-bounds if there’s a spot you gained’t need the ball to go.

Then again you have got every kind of choices based mostly on participant positions and actions. For instance, you may say slim courtroom 3v3, however require 2 blockers always. Equally, you can play 5v5 both with 3 entrance row gamers and a couple of again row, or the opposite method round. You can use a Winners sort of method to rotate groups, or a Neville Pepper. There are additionally choices like 6 v 6s and Participant Winners. And relying on numbers, there are methods to adapt issues like Winners relative to positions, in order for you.

Placing the 2 collectively

The factor I personally would in all probability do in a scenario like that is provide you with a base set of video games (constructions) with variations to deal with every of my focus factors. For instance, if serve obtain is the main focus, you possibly can have bonus factors for good passes. If attacking deep is what you need, groups can solely rating if the ball lands (or would have landed) within the final meter of the courtroom. Wish to introduce some strain? Arrange a wash sport the place on the second ball requires a particular participant to do one thing (e.g. serve the opposite group out of system, obtain serve, get a kill, and so forth.).

So the underside line is to provide you with a set of adaptable sport constructions. Then develop quite a lot of guidelines and/or scoring programs based mostly in your totally different focus factors for every of these constructions. Try this and you’ve got ton of potential video games in your volleyball open gyms. And finally to be used in-season as effectively!