Bingo-Bango-Bongo

A wash drill: the coach enters three balls back to back and only the team that wins all three rallies takes the real point. If the teams split the series, it is wiped out and the count starts over — hence the name wash. The result is that a team two rallies up plays the third ball exactly the way it would at 24-23.

9 players 9 phases ± 25 min Ball cart with at least twelve balls, full court From U17 upwards, twelve players

Phase 1 of 9The coach is ready with the free ball; A complete in base, B on the other side

Receiving team (S = setter) Opponents Coach Ball

This animation comes straight out of the Koach app. In the app you play it at your own pace and the positions carry your players' real names.

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How the drill runs

What you are training

Wash game 6v6: win three rallies in a row and you earn the right to serve for a real point.

Holding your concentration when you are already ahead in the series.
Handling a free ball without simplifying the attack.
Back to base between two balls, because the next one comes straight after it.

Coaching points

Call the score of the series out loud before every ball.

Players play differently at 2-0 than they do at 0-0. That difference is exactly what you are training here; if nobody calls the score, it is just six on six.

A free ball is a scoring chance, not a breather.

Teams play it high and safe to the outside by default. A team that treats the free ball as the first ball of an attack wins the third rally far more often.

Back to base within five counts after every rally.

The coach does not wait. Anyone still going over the last ball is out of position when the next one comes — exactly what happens in a match after a disputed point.

Two rallies won are worth nothing yet.

On the third ball teams start playing it safe and lose it anyway. Agree that the attacking choice at 2-0 stays the same as it was at 0-0.

Variations

Easier: Two rallies in a row is already enough for the point, and the coach enters the ball high and friendly.
Harder: The series opens with a serve instead of a free ball, and the coach enters the third ball hard as a down ball.
With eight players: Four against four on a narrower court. Same scoring, but the coach enters from the side so there are no players standing around waiting.
As a game: Every complete series of three is one big point. First to five big points; the losing team puts the nets away afterwards.

Volleyball drills

4 players · 6 phases SafeVolley base round Warm-up 3 players · 5 phases Shoulder activation with band Warm-up 2 players · 6 phases Dynamic movement patterns Warm-up 5 players · 5 phases Core plank with rotation Warm-up

Read on in the knowledge base: exactly how the scoring in a wash drill works · the free ball and the down ball · switching from defense to attack