Volleyball
Forearm pass skill cues
1.Start in ready position, staggered
stance, knees bent,
butt down, and
hands together.
2. Thumbs parallel
and together do not
interlock fingers.
3. Elbows locked
ready to contact the
ball.
4. Contact
volleyball on
forearms.
5.Move feet to get under the ball
6. Do not swing your arms, bend knees
and extend up to get power in your
bump.
7. Keep shoulders square to were you
want the volleyball to go.
Skill
Challenge:
Have students break down into their
sport education teams. Today’s skill
challenge involves a team activity.
Each sport education team will need to
have one volleyball and need to go to
there assigned volleyball court. Each
team will line up in a circle in their
assigned court. The circle should be
about 10ft in diameter and the person
to the right or left should be at least
arms length apart. From here each
team will play a game of “keep it up”.
Here students will begin by forearm
passing the ball to each other. Few rules
though, each student can only hit the ball
once before passing it. After passing the
Forearm Pass/Bump
The forearm pass is the attempt by a team to
properly handle the opponent's serve, or any
form of attack.
Forearm Passing Activity #1:
- Have each student find a partner, and
each pair of students needs a volleyball.
- Have students line up along the sideline
of the court in a straight line, with their
partner standing about 10 ft directly
across from their other partner.
- The first drill starts when the one partner
with the ball underhand tosses the ball to
the other partner, the other partner will
then use all the skill cues and use the
forearm pass and return back to the
partner. Each partner will do this 10
times then switch.
Forearm Passing Activity #2: Variation of activity
#1
- Have each student find a partner and each pair
of students needs a volleyball.
- Again have students line up along the sideline of
the court in a straight line, with their partner
standing about 10 ft directly across from their
partner, just like the same drill before.
- Again use all the skill cues as before.
- This is were the drill is a little different from
before.
- Students instead of taking turns forearm
passing, they will continuously volley and
challenge themselves to see how long they can
volley the ball for.
- If a person messes up they will start over again.
- Students should count how many consecutive
volleys they have.
ball to a teammate the next teammate
passes to another. Remember every one
in the group must touch the ball before
another student can get a second turn.
Also students cannot pass the ball to the
person next to them, must go across.