Attacking · Intermediate

Listen For Your Partner

Train the attacker to execute on a setter's call — shot variety on demand.

How to run it

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P1 jumps to attack hard every time. P2 (setter) waits until AFTER the jump (during the jump for lower levels) to give a call. No call = spike hard. Call 'cut' or 'high line' = execute the called shot. 8 reps, rotate.
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Coach emphasis: Default is hard. The call changes the play in the air.

Train the attacker to execute on a setter's call — shot variety on demand.

Keep building

Lock in the 3-step beach approach and a full high-contact arm swing.

Teach the two highest-percentage beach shots: short cross (cut) and deep line.

Use slow-mo partner video to fix approach flaws and add cross-body / wrist-away swings.

Train the attacker's read on the setter — go on the setter's hand release, not on the ball flight.

Bridge from warm-up swings to live attacking against a free ball — pass, set, hit cycle with limited misses.

Apply the scoop-throw torque pattern to live swings off a tossed ball.

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

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