Hockeyexercise: receiving and accelerating under pressure
Suitable for the following techniques: ball control passing dribbling condition
Receiving and accelerating under pressure
Execution
- The goalkeeper stands in his position.
- Place two gates made of cones on the 23-metre line, to the left and right of the goalposts.
- Player in red starts at the top of the circle and accelerates with the ball through the gates.
- After passing through the gates, red plays the ball to player in blue.
- Red sprints around a cone to put pressure on blue or to take the ball away.
- Blue receives the ball, accelerates, and runs through the gates.
- Once blue is through the gates, red may no longer take the ball away and returns to the cone.
- Blue accelerates to the top of the circle and finishes on goal.