A volleyball drills library, and the sessions you build from it
Drills with instructions, coaching points and animated court diagrams, sequenced into reusable session plans you can attach to a training event and run on the night. Free forever, on the web and in the app.
Build a session planMost club sessions are planned in the car park
At amateur level the coach is usually a player who volunteered, planning around a job. The session gets decided on the drive over, which means the same three drills on rotation, warm-ups that overrun, and no record of what the squad has actually worked on this season.
None of that is a knowledge problem. It is that a session plan lives in a notebook or a coach’s head, so it cannot be reused, cannot be handed to anyone else, and disappears the moment that coach stops turning up.
Drills filtered the way a coach thinks
A general sports app gives you a notes field. Spike’s library is volleyball-shaped: every drill is tagged with the skills it trains and the part of the session it belongs to, so “fifteen minutes of blocking work for eight players” is a filter rather than a memory test.
- Phase — Warm-up, technical, tactical, game, conditioning, cool-down
- Skill — Serving, passing, setting, attacking, blocking, defence, footwork, conditioning
- Level and intensity — Beginner to advanced, low to high — so a warm-up does not open with a max-effort drill
- Numbers and kit — Minimum and maximum players, and the equipment a drill actually needs
Drills that show the movement, not just describe it
A drill carries its instructions and coaching points as proper rich text, the equipment and player numbers it needs, and images, video or documents attached to it. It can also carry an animated court diagram — players and ball moving through the pattern — which explains a rotation far faster than a paragraph does, and works just as well held up on a phone at the side of the court. Write your own, keep them private, share them with your club, or publish them for other coaches.
Sessions you build once and keep
A plan is the shape of the whole session: named sections, drills sequenced inside them, a duration and a coaching note on each, and a running total so you know before you arrive whether ninety minutes of plan fits into a seventy-minute hall. Plans can be shared with the club, bookmarked, commented on and duplicated, so another coach can take your session and adapt it rather than start from nothing.
Attached to the session, and run on the night
Attach a plan to a training event and it travels with it — players see what practice holds before they turn up, instead of standing around waiting to be told. On the night you start the plan and work through it: advance when a block is done, pause when something overruns, and finish with a record of what the session actually was rather than what it was meant to be.
Who it’s for
Coaches planning on a Sunday night
The session you ran in October is still there, still timed, ready to run again or adapt for a different squad.
Clubs with more than one coach
Plans and drills can be shared across the club, so the second coach starts from your session rather than a blank page.
Volunteers coaching for the first time
A public library of drills with instructions and coaching points, so a willing parent has somewhere to start.
Common questions
What is in the drills library?
Volleyball drills, filtered the way a coach thinks about them: by phase of the session (warm-up, technical, tactical, game, conditioning, cool-down), by skill (serving, passing, setting, attacking, blocking, defence, footwork, conditioning), by difficulty and by intensity. You can browse public drills, save the ones you like, and write your own.
Can I add my own drills?
Yes, and most coaches do. A drill carries its instructions, the equipment and player count it needs, how long it runs, and images, video or documents attached to it. Keep it private, share it with your club, or make it public for other coaches.
How is a training plan different from a drill?
A plan is the shape of a whole session: named sections, drills sequenced inside them, a duration and a coaching note on each one, and a running total for the session. Build it once and reuse it — Tuesday's setter session does not need reinventing every week.
Can players see the plan?
Attach a plan to an event and it travels with the session, so players can see what practice holds before they arrive rather than standing on the sideline waiting to be told.
Can I run the plan during the session?
Yes. Start a plan on the night and it tracks where you are, so you can advance through the blocks, pause when something overruns, and finish with a record of what you actually did rather than what you meant to do.
Can our coaches share plans with each other?
Yes. Plans can be shared across the club, bookmarked, commented on and duplicated, so a second coach can take your session and adapt it for their squad instead of starting from a blank page.
The rest of the club, too
Plan Tuesday properly, once
Pull drills from the library, time the blocks, and attach the plan to the session. Next week it is already there.
Build a session plan