Enhancing Volleyball Skills Through Engaging Couple Games

Game by Couples: Objective: To motivate and enjoy the practice of volleyball and develop positive attitudes.

Relate to sharing partners and co-targets. Learn about key aspects of the basic rules of volleyball and start in the game. Practice fingers and forearm passes as integral elements in the game. Develop basic aspects of individual tactical skills, improving perception, decision-making, and execution involved in the game. Learn how to act autonomously in sport through integrated and global work.

Contents: Concepts and basic rules, material for the game, application of basic standards of play, and respect towards them. Use tactics such as passing space with fingers and forearms, exploration of different backgrounds, and improving the feel of the game in advance. Cooperation with peers and respect for opponents is essential.

Activities: Games with modified spaces and pathways, alternative actions, games with 1, 2, and 3 passes sequenced differently, and motivation through competition with participation from all. Registration of results from competitions.

Game Between Pairs: Objectives: To strengthen motivation to practice volleyball, build positive attitudes toward the sport, strengthen ties with partners sharing common interests and objectives, and improve technical performance using tactics of fingers and forearm passes. Utilize the kick-down technique and ensure safety while acquiring the basics of the auction block.

Familiarize with some basic aspects of tactical groups (functions, areas of interference, etc.) and apply technical and tactical learning achieved in these stages in an integrated manner during the game.

Contents: Using competition as motivation, cooperation as a means of socializing, and reflecting on the concept of teamwork. Focus on the kick-down serve and safety, as well as the uptake and correction of errors in executing fingers and forearm passes. Initiate the use of blocking and finishing techniques, and delineate functional spaces between colleagues while searching for areas of interference between opponents.

Activities: 2x2 games and matches of 2 vs. 2, including variations such as 2x2 +1 and 2 vs. 2 +1 (with changes of partners, underwriter functions, decreased aid resources, limited action possibilities, and communication between the underwriter and players, along with analytical exercises).