Volleyball drills · Match play · Teamwork

Match with rotation

A full six-on-six in which the team rotates one position after every rally, no matter who won the point. In a quarter of an hour every player therefore ends up in every spot, and you see straight away which rotation is not running. For youth teams it is also the fastest way to learn where you are supposed to be standing.

12 players 12 phases ± 25 min 6 balls, full court From U15 upwards

Phase 1 of 12Starting line-up; A receives B's serve

Your own team (S = setter, M = middle blocker, P = outside hitter, D = opposite, L = libero) The opposition 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

A full 6v6 in which the team rotates after every rally: play the rally, win the point, and rotate one position.

Getting to know the six rotations by playing all of them, not by looking at them.
Playing in a spot that is not your own position.
Checking before every serve whether you are lined up correctly with your neighbors.

Coaching points

You rotate after every rally, including after a point you won.

That differs from the match rule, and that is exactly the intention: this way every player gets the same number of turns in every position, instead of the strongest team staying where it is.

Look left and right before the serve, not at the floor.

An overlap is almost always about the player next to you, not about the lines. A quick glance at your neighbors is enough and costs you less than a second.

The setter only releases once the serve has been struck.

A setter who runs to position 2 too early is out of position at the moment of contact, and that is a fault the referee always spots. Waiting for the contact saves you points in matches.

Say out loud which rotation you are in.

Players only recognize their own spot once they can name the rotation as well. Two practices of counting out loud saves half a season of guessing.

Variations

Easier: Rotate after every two rallies, so there is time to settle in. The serve comes from the three-meter line.
Harder: An overlap gives the point straight to the other team and the team does not rotate. Or: rotate two positions at a time.
With fourteen players: Six per side plus two substitutes who come in at position 1 on every rotation; the player leaving position 1 goes off the court.
As a game: Play to 25 with a rotation after every rally. Every point scored in the rotation you picked beforehand as your weakest counts double.

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: walking through your six rotations beforehand · what a rotation fault costs you · the switch between middle blocker and libero