Setting · Beginner

Set and Move

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

How to run it

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Two pairs of athletes start facing each other across the net close to the antenna. Athlete 1 proceeds to set the ball across the net to athlete 2. After setting the ball the athletes move around behind their partner who is beside them and down the net. The same happens on the other side of the court and the pairs move down the net towards the other antenna. Once the athletes get to the other side of the 2 net they should attempt to turn the drill around and head back down the net without the ball hitting the ground.
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Coach emphasis: Keep setting reps game-like and technically clean.

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

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

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