SOLO BLOCKING

If the receiving team passes the ball perfect in the game of volleyball, more times than not your wing blockers will be one on one with the hitter.

As you get higher up in the ranks, the offenses get faster and faster but these main points will still hold true no matter what age group you are playing. You want to make sure that you forget about all the other spikers and key in on your guy that is in your zone.

The first two things you always want to do is lower your hands by your side and take a release step from your normal starting position across the net.

Lowering the hands will allow you to get your hands over the net faster and the release step will help you get all the way out to the line if the ball is set to the antenna. Once you have done this, its important to block the meat of the court as we call it.

In my opinion, a well formed block into position six will allow your defense to play around you and the hitter to have harder angles to hit. You don’t ever want to give the hitter the big part of the court to hit, it’s too easy, so make them hit the lines and hopefully force them to hit the ball out of bounds or into one of your defenders laps.

Blocking by yourself is one of the hardest things to do since the attacker has all the advantage but the better you can be in this skill, the more opportunities your team will have to play defense around you.

Last but not least, don’t net, be solid and stable over the net and let your kamikaze diggers have a field day behind you!!!

Tip By: Touzinsky’s Elite Volleyball Camp