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Volley kick with hip rotation

Correct hip rotation mechanics and the contact sequence in the volley kick — biomechanics research on this goalkeeper-specific action shows that support-hip rotation, not just the kicking leg, is what determines distance and accuracy.

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Load

minutes
10
Intensity
Medium
Sets and reps
3 × 6

Microcycle days it fits

MD-4, MD-3

Each bar’s height is that day’s dive ceiling.

Setup

Goalkeepers
1
server
1
outfield player
0

Space: 20 × 30 m

Equipment: Balls, Full goal

The coach serves and manages the breaks.

1 steps

The goalkeeper drops the ball and volleys it to a medium-to-long distance target, with deliberate attention to support-hip rotation at the moment of contact.

Exercise sequence

Coaching points

  • The support hip rotates toward the target before contact — stopping it too early reduces both distance and accuracy.
  • The ball’s drop point stays consistent, session after session — varying where the ball falls changes everything else about the action.
  • The trunk follows the hip’s rotation; a rigid trunk isolates the action to the leg and loses power.
  • Finish the movement with the kicking foot continuing the trajectory, not stopping abruptly at contact.

Progressions

  1. Increase the distance to the target.
  2. Ask for accuracy to a smaller target instead of just distance.

Regressions

  1. Reduce the distance to the target.
  2. Return to a ball thrown by the coach, removing the drop variable.

Sources · 2

  1. StudyBiomechanics of the volley kick by the soccer goalkeeper (2009), in Science and Football VI
  2. BookJoe Luxbacher, «The Soccer Goalkeeper: Techniques, Tactics, Training»