Bombs Away

Purpose: This is a fun drill for younger kids at the beginning of the year or during summer camp. It encourages serving tough and getting to the ball in serve receive position.

Set-up: All players, several balls.

1. Divide the court into two even teams.

2. One side is the serving team (S), and the other is the catching team (C).

3. Everyone on the serving team should have a ball, and there should be a few extra balls in a bucket ready to be put into the drill.

4. Both sides should form a single file line going off the back of their respective end lines. The first person on the catching team should start in the middle of the court, about 10 feet from the end line. The first person on the serving team should be prepared to serve from any where behind the end line.

5. The object of the serving team is to serve aces. The objective of the catching team is to catch the serves.
6. The serving team gets to serve, one at a time, to the catching team. For every ace (a ball not caught that lands inside the court) they receive 1 point.

7. The catching team puts one person on the court at a time. The catcher must catch the ball and roll it under the net after the catcher’s turn. The next catcher steps on the court immediately after the person in front is finished.

8. For every caught ball or serving error, the catching team gets 1 point.

9. Give the serving team 2 minutes to serve, then switch serving and catching.

10. The players end up figuring out that it is easier to catch the ball (or at least touch it) than it is to serve an ace. The point being, if you can catch it, you can pass it, and if one person can cover the whole court catching the ball, then surely no ball should hit the floor during serve receive if the team has 3 or 4 passers in the serve receive pattern.

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