Hockey drills
- A starts with the ball
- B runs in and gets the ball from A
- B takes the ball strongly and turns away past the pawns. Keep the ball on the stick.
- C runs in and takes the ball strongly.
- B runs through and gets the ball back from C. This may be a rebound as long as it is hard and clean.
- Team blue starts in a 2:1 where one of the players must leave the square running.
- If this is successful it becomes a 5:4.
- A 2nd ball follows from the trainer.
Stairs.
- Player blue starts with the ball at the orange pawn.
- Player blue drives the ball toward the red pawn, pulls the ball under him toward the blue pawn and then accelerates briefly with the backhand around the blue pawn.
- You do this movement three times in a row.
- Then you round on goal.
- Depending on the number of players, put the exercise out once or twice.
Minefield
- Start at the orange pawn and dribble through the minefield towards the goal.
- Keep the ball close to you and try to make sure you don't hit the pawns.
- Once you are past the minefield, round off with a hit on goal.
- Plot the exercise twice, if necessary.
Pass exercise
- Takeoff
- Looking
- Play
- Touching the ball twice
- Take and play
- A starts with the ball and plays it back to B first.
- When B has taken the ball the 3-on-3 starts and the defenders may start pressuring.
- Tips for the attackers:
- Use the practice of switching the strikers.
- Play only the safe ball.
- Remember the 4 squares in the circle.
- Tips for the defenders:
- Keep your man/woman in the circle.
- Push them to one side.
- Always put pressure on the ball so don't let them shoot.
You play ball possession with your team.
- Keep the ball in your own team
- Create triangles to move the ball around easily
- Party game with two goals and a square in the middle of the field.
- The ball may not be played through the square. In that case the ball is in touch.
- So the idea is to play field hockey outside and not through the axis of the field.
- A starts with the ball
- B comes for the ball, puts his/her stick down
- A plays a hard aimed push to B
- B elevators the ball over the bar
- Turns away and drives the ball into the circle and rounds off
- A starts with the ball
- The player floats with the ball to the pawn in front of him/her
- The player drives around it with her/his forehand
- A gives a push out of the run to the in-running B
- B runs in and takes the ball
- Pushes into the circle and rounds on goal
Relay
- Make two equal teams; team red and team blue.
- Start with ball at orange pawn.
- Float a lap around the green pawns and place ball with hand on pawn red.
- Then run a lap around the green pawns without ball and tap the blue pawn with your hand.
- Then walk another circle around the green pawns and take the ball off the red pawn.
- Then drive a circle around the green pawns with ball and pass the ball to the next one.
Note:
- Depending on the number of players, you can have everyone take 1, 2 or 3 turns.
- Once a player has had her/his last turn, she/he sits on the floor.
- If a team has all its players sitting on the ground, they win the relay.
- Putting pressure on the bowl in positional play
- Covering the pass line and running line
