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Understand the game your team is playing.
Visual guides to the court, the roles and the rotations, from a first practice to a first 5-1.
Court & rules · 5 min read
How rotations work: why everyone moves when you win the serve
The clockwise path, the serving order, and the six ways a team lines up.
Read the guide →New to volleyball? Start here.
Four guides, in order. Each one builds on the last.
Court & rules
Where am I allowed to stand, and when do we rotate?
Court & rules · 4 min read
Zones 1–6: the map under every rotation
Six fixed spots on your half of the court, why the numbering runs backwards, and how it drives everything else.
Court & rules · 5 min read
Overlap: where you can stand when the ball is served
The referee isn't checking zones. They're checking neighbours, at one exact moment.
Positions & roles
What is my job?
Systems & rotations
How does our lineup work?
Systems & rotations · 6 min read
The 5-1: one setter, every rotation
How it works, why competitive teams run it, and the one trade-off you accept.
Systems & rotations · 5 min read
The 6-2: three hitters at the net, every time
Two setters take turns from the back row. Here is the handoff, and what it asks of your roster.
Systems & rotations · 6 min read
The 4-2: the system most teams learn first
Whoever is in the front row sets, so every play looks the same. A simple start that grows into a 5-1 or 6-2.
Systems & rotations · 5 min read
Your setter doesn't have to start in zone 1
What the rules actually require of a starting lineup, and how to choose the rotation you open with.
Serve receive & defense
Where do we move as the rally develops?
Printables
For the gym wall. Your own team's sheets print from the rotation builder.
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