Improve Your Defense with the Volleyball Barrel Roll Dig Technique With Coach April Chapple

Improve Your Defense with the Volleyball Barrel Roll Dig Technique
Improve your defense with my comprehensive guide on the volleyball barrel roll technique with my step-by-step instructions and tips to improve defensive plays.
Welcome to my comprehensive guide on mastering the volleyball roll technique.
Whether you're a beginner or an experienced player looking to enhance your defensive skills, understanding and perfecting the volleyball barrel roll technique is essential.
In this article, we will provide you with step-by-step instructions, useful tips, and common mistakes to avoid when executing this powerful defensive move.
Let's dive in and take your defense to the next level with the volleyball barrel roll!
Understanding the Volleyball Barrel Roll Technique
Not every ball that you need to dig will come directly at you. Many balls that hit in your direction or your side of the court will fall 2-3 feet away from you.
How are you supposed to dig those balls?
To dig a volleyball that's more than 2-3 steps away from you and low to the floor, the barrel roll technique is an effective strategy.
You need to know
how to play balls up on the move, then
complete your digging action and
fall to the ground in a safe way that you get back up and keep playing without getting hurt.
To pick balls up that are 3-4 feet away from you can use the volleyball barrel roll technique that I taught in my Vegas Volleyball Boot Camp classes and teach my private volleyball clients.
Volleyball Barrel Roll Technique
Many times during a match, as a digger you have to dig hard hit spikes by chasing a ball, taking several steps to get to a ball that was hit several feet from where you are positioned in defense.
I teach players in Boot Camp classes that you can get to any ball that's on the court by taking 3 no more than 4 large fast steps to chase down a ball in defense.
Step-by-Step Guide: How to Execute the Volleyball Barrel Roll
We practice 2-3 ways to do this ..
For the balls hit or tipped close to you in defense we use the extension and pop up to drop our hips fast to beat the ball to the floor.
For balls spiked further away we teach the extension and one step to barrel roll to get to balls that go up over the block before they come down.
For balls that are tipped to the middle of the court we teach the three step barrel roll technique to dig a volleyball.
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