TRAINING #8 - DEVELOPING SPIKE SKILLS IN VOLLEYBALL
Group: 10 - 14 years (Beginners)
Training Duration: 75 minutes
Materials necessary for the training: Box, mat, tennis ball, foam noodle.
Please consider this page as a step-by-step guide to Your trining. It consists of explanatory texts and videos of activities & drills that has to be executed (do not be surprised, if activities repeat).
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Warm-up and Coordination Exercises (30 min)
Shuttle running
Plyometric exercises and ladder drills for quickness
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Mutual ball warm-up
2 athletes, facing each other, practice the inner and outer spike wrist (body position of the athletes should be carefully controlled).
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The spike is slammed in return, the athlete meets the ball with control underhand pass (attention should be paid to wrist and arm technique)
Learning New Skills (35 min.)
Hitting a tennis ball over the net with an outstretched arm
To bounce with a tennis ball by stepping and hitting it over the net by showing wrist movement
The athlete hits the ball he/she throws by stepping
Athlete stands on the box and kicks the ball thrown by the coach
Athlete makes a spike on the ball thrown by the coach
At number 4, an artificial block is created with foam noodles in the net area and the athlete is asked to hit the ball thrown by the coach to the place where there is no block
Practices on the technique of hitting highballs.
Cooling Phase (10 min.)
The team on 5 point in the underhand match (15 points) wins the spike on the inbound ball