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Hockey drills

  • Make 2 equal teams.
  • Each team gets an attacking goal.
  • Rights to score can be fetched in 1 of the 2 boxes.
  • On offense or ball loss, rights must be retrieved again.
drawing Warm-up ball possession high tempo
  • Focused pass giving and receiving.
  • Center player focus on accepting, handling ball and passing on.
Points of focus:
  • In the forehand
  • High stop
  • Speed ball -width of field serve.
Extension exercise: middle player runs in and asks for the ball, accepts and turns around, passes the ball runs back quickly and offers again.
drawing Passing in 3-pairs
  • One ball per pair.
  • Pairs are instructed to pass through as many gates as possible in 2 minutes.
  • A gate is completed when you pass the ball three times.
drawing Passing gates
Goal:
  • Taking out over the side
  • Build up over the flank
  • Get to the back line and then pass to goal
Points of attention:
  • Playing the ball into the forehand.
  • Moving behind the ball.
  1. Player plays the ball hard through push 1 ==> 2 runs directly after her/his pass
  2. Flattens the ball hard over long distance 2 ==> 3
  3. Drives the ball to the back line and passes to 4
  4. Takes to round at pace on goal
drawing Take out - Construction - Attack
  • A runs around the pawns with the ball and pushes to B
  • B passes to C
  • C drives around the pawns into the circle and passes to B who has run into the circle
  • Defender D comes into action B and C try to score
Option 1: Extra defender and A attacks with him.

drawing Impact over left with dribble
  • A pushes to B
  • B passes to C
  • C drives around the pawns into the circle
  • C rounds on goal
Option 1: B runs into the circle and gets the ball from C and rounds on goal.

Option 2: additional player D stands at the second post and tips in.

drawing Impact over left
  • A plays the ball to B
  • B plays the ball to C
  • C plays the ball to D
  • D dribbles into the circle and finishes on goal
drawing Assumptions for 2 touch field hockey
  • B starts running around the pawn triangle
  • At the middle pawn it gets the ball
  • And then plays the ball back to A
  • B runs further in
  • It receives the ball in the backhand
  • In the exercise from the other side, you are played into your forehand
  • When B has taken the ball, he plays it to C
  • C has run past the pawns in the meantime
  • C takes the ball and runs past the pawns back to the dead ball line
  • Passes the ball in front of the goal to B.
  • B then rounds the ball into the goal
You can do this exercise on both sides of the pitch so that you can pass faster in succession.

drawing Pass-round exercise 3 players
  • A starts with a ball and drives into the circle and rounds off
  • B plays when A has rounded a ball to V1
  • From here the 2 versus 2 starts
  • When A and B conquer the ball, they can score in one of the goals on the side
drawing 2 versus 2 rounding
  • We always play 2 against 2
  • Group 1 plays against group 2
  • Group 3 stands ready with a ball, if the ball is out, or scored, group 3 may start, Group 1 then enters that box to defend
  • Group 1 against group 3
  • Group 4 is ready with a ball, ball out, or scored, group 4 starts with the ball and writes group 3 to defend
  • Group 3 against group 4
  • And so on
drawing 2 versus 2 with switching moment
  • A plays the ball to B
  • B plays the ball to C who has run up to the green pawns
  • C runs along the pawn line and passes the ball to A who has run through to the circle
  • A then finishes on goal
You can perform this exercise on both sides.

drawing Routing and construction through left and right
  • One ball per pair.
  • Pairs are instructed to pass through as many gates as possible in 2 minutes.
  • A gate is completed when you pass the ball three times.
drawing Passing gates