Setting · Beginner

High-Rep Setting

This drill works on giving athletes a high number of repetitions in either hand setting or bump setting.

How to run it

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A line of passers start in ready position on the left and right side of the court with extra passers starting off the court behind the baseline. The coach or an athlete tosses the ball to simulate a pass from close to one of the passers. The non-passer on the opposite side to the thrown ball moves in to set. Initially you can have setters catch their own ball as this encourages a set that is straight up and down but you could also have catchers at the net who hand the ball back to the setters. Setters not active need to shag balls to keep a constant supply available for the thrower.
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Coach emphasis: Keep setting reps game-like and technically clean.

This drill works on giving athletes a high number of repetitions in either hand setting or bump setting.

Keep building

Build the legal beach hand-set: clean, simultaneous contact with no spin.

Develop the reliable second-contact bump-set used by every beach player.

This is a basic drill working on developing hand setting and additionally giving athletes practice on moving back and sideways in the sand.

This drill works on giving athletes a large number of repetitions setting.

Build attacker–setter rhythm and teach the hitter to call for and trust the set.

Convert defense into offense — the dig-to-set is the most missed transition in junior beach.

Many of our drills are adapted from the coaching resources at Better at Beach and the FIVB.

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