Triangle passing (12)

Four little triangles of three, each with its own ball: nobody waits and within three balls everybody has done all three jobs. With four groups going at once you cannot see everything as a coach, so give each group one thing to watch for itself before you start.

12 players 5 phases ± 12 min 4 balls, the full width of the gym From U13 upwards

Phase 1 of 5Four triangles set up, each group with a ball at the tosser

Four triangles of three; S = the player who is setting at that moment 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

Four groups of three play the ball in a triangle: pass, set, and move on to the next position.

Three roles within three balls: tossing, passing and setting.
Keeping a triangle turning with exactly three players, so with nobody to spare.
Correcting each other inside the group instead of waiting until the coach comes by.

Coaching points

Every group names its own focus point before it starts.

With four triangles running at once you are somewhere else half the time. A group that knows what it is watching keeps working on technique even then.

The tosser stays where he is.

If the tosser drifts in behind his throw, the triangle gets smaller every round and the angle the drill is built around disappears.

Play the second ball higher than the first.

The pass can be flat, the set has to be high. That difference is the heart of every triangle drill, and it is gone the moment both balls come out the same.

Rotate in the direction of your pass.

One fixed direction of travel prevents most of the collisions. Rotating whichever way feels right at the time is what goes wrong most often in this drill.

Variations

Easier: The tosser throws and the third corner catches, so there is only one real pass per round.
Harder: The tosser hits the ball in instead of throwing it, or the third corner has to attack it.
With six players: Two triangles counting against each other, so the pace stays high.
As a game: Which group completes the most full rounds in two minutes? Every time the ball drops it costs two rounds.

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Read on in the knowledge base: overhead setting · passing drills for the whole group · from preparation to evaluation