Hockey drills
- Position play 0 against 0
- Then 3 against 1
Three-color game
- Players all have a ball and dribble through the box of pawns.
- Scattered through the box are pawns of three different colors; at least 4 of each color.
- Trainer has in hand of all three colors -i.e. in the example red, blue and white.
- Trainer puts e.g. a blue pawn in the air --> All players try to drive around all blue pawns as quickly as possible.
- The first two players who have driven around all blue pawns get a point.
- Then a new round begins and the trainer chooses another color pawn -or the same color.
- Etc.
Basic techniques -> Push pass out of the run.
- The trainer makes 3-pairs -if you can't work out the numbers of 4-pairs-; 2 players on one side of the playing field, 1 on the other side.
- The side of the pair always starts with the ball.
- Player 1 starts by floating to the other side.
- Halfway across the playing field he gives a push pass to player 2 on the opposite side.
- Player 2 takes the ball and does the same as Player 1 and gives the ball with a push pass to Player 3 etc.
- The player who passed the ball first runs on to Player 2's spot, Player 2 to Player 3's spot etc.
Points of attention:
- Drive the ball well in front of your body -i.e. not next to it or behind it- -> Look well over the ball.
- Drive the ball well outside with your left elbow.
- The exercise must be performed technically well before you can increase speed.
Relay
- As trainers, create two equal teams.
- Start the relay at the trainer's signal.
- The players slalom around the pawns. Both ball and body around the pawns. And rounds on goal; push or flatten.
- If the player scores, he may immediately sprint back and tap the next player.
- If the player misses, he must take a detour via the blue pawn at the side of the field and then sprint back and tap the next player.
- When it's your turn, you sit on the floor.
- Depending on the number of players, you can also choose to have all players take 2 or 3 turns.
- The next player may not start until he is tapped by the player in front of him.
- The team that has all players on the ground first wins the relay.
- There are different types of slalom to apply in this exercise:
- Normal slalom
- Slalom in which the player's body and ball are to the left or right of the pawn line
- Slalom where the ball is to the left of the row of pawns and the body is to the right
Two touches
- Player red pushes the ball to player blue, player blue to player white and player red 2. Players may touch the ball a maximum of two times.
- Player red 2 takes the ball and rounds on goal. Preferably a flat.
- After your pass, move on to the next pawn. The player who rounded on goal joins the back of the line again.
Points of attention:
- Because the player is allowed to touch the ball a maximum of two times, the ball must be right at once when taking it on. So make sure the player concentrates extra well on the takeover.
- Set out the exercises two or three times depending on the number of players.
- Make pairs and place the pawns closer and closer together.
- Players red and blue stand close together and tap the ball up and down between the pawns.
- You start with a 2-touch so assume -> pass, maximum 2 touches.
- If the ball hits a pawn, a pawn is skipped or a player touches the ball more than 2 times, you are out.
- If you are finished, start the exercise again.
- If you have made it to the end of the pawn row a number of times, try everything in 1-touch -no more than 1 touch, that is.
- Is this also successful, you can keep track of time -> Improve your record each time.
- The trainer makes two equal teams and divides them into two rows.
- The first player on each team starts with a slalom around the green pawns.
- Then he drives a lap around the blue pawns -right around.
- He puts the ball on the orange pawn and sprints back to the row of players.
- There he taps the next player.
- This one does exactly the same thing only without ball and stick.
- He picks up the ball from the cone and sprints back to the row.
- There he puts the ball ready for the next player, who travels the route again with ball and stick, and so on.
- The team that first, has all its players finish twice, is the winner of the game.
- A starts with the ball
- A gives 2 passing options
- A plays the ball to B
- B takes the ball
- C runs wide and gets the ball from B
- Now a 3:2 starts
Two touches
- Player red pushes the ball to player blue, player blue to player white and player red 2. Players may touch the ball a maximum of two times.
- Player red 2 takes the ball and rounds on goal, preferably a flats.
- After your pass, move on to the next pawn.
- The player who rounded on goal rejoins the back of the line.
Points of attention:
- Because the player is allowed to touch the ball a maximum of two times, the ball must be right at once when taking it on. So make sure the player concentrates extra well on the takeover.
1 vs. 1
- The trainer sets out a square and gathers all the balls and players in it.
- The trainer gives all players a number. In this example, 1 through 6.
- The trainer calls out two numbers each time. In this example 3 and 5.
- The player with number 3 plays a 1 vs. 1 against the player with number 5.
- The player who scores a goal gets a point.
- Then the coach calls two other numbers, after which a new 1 vs. 1 is played.
- The players keep track of how many points they have made.
- Divide your team into 2 groups
- Have them both stand at a row
- Have them practice elevator passes over the pawns several times first
- Float over the last pawn and push the ball to the next in line
Once they have all done it once or twice, you can make it a relay.
Overrun
- All but one player start with ball on the line.
- They try to reach the other side of the field without losing the ball.
- The defender -player red- tries to take the ball from the players -blue- and work it out of the box.
- If a player loses his ball and the ball is played out of the box then he is finished.
- He then helps the defender to take the balls off and work them out of the box.
- The game continues until all players are finished.
- The player last left wins the game.
Points of Attention:
- Is the game finished, start over with another defender.
- If the player commits a foul, he is also finished.
