Zone Part Two: Why You Shouldn’t Correct Players While They are Drilling

Key Points

• Volleying to your player and moving them around the baseline, can increase the tempo of play and speed up their reactions
• Stand on 1 side of the net and have the player hit back to you, only allowing them to hit into the open court when they get a short ball
• Take note of technical issues but the focus should be on the drill and having fun, with a view to fixing technique later in the session
• Once you finish drilling, work on any technical issues that you noticed in the drills
• There is no need to constantly tell the player you are doing a particular drill to work on a technical weakness
• Setting up drills to work on weaknesses will naturally improve those areas
• Change the angle and position of where you feed balls from to make it more match realistic