Hockeyexercises for technique attack / offense
- Dribble towards Circle around the pawns.
- Feint on the blue pawn.
- Then backhand flats on goal.
1 vs. 1: rounding at goal for attack and how to defend for defense
- Defense: Defending to the outside
- Attack: Clear feint and acceleration
- A plays the ball to B.
- B runs in and takes the ball strongly.
- B plays the ball back to A.
- C runs up and gets a cross ball from A.
- B has run around the pawn and passes to the post.
- C passes a ball on the tip.
- B tips the ball into the goal.
- Player A runs toward balls.
- Players B and C towards field of play.
- Player A takes the ball out -saves in.
- Players B and C offer themselves, being covered by the two defenders.
- Player A may make a selfpass.
- Attackers score in the big goal.
- Defenders if they get the ball, score in goal X.
Areas of focus are: quick take, offering, run and play lines, tackleback.
- Half Field.
- In the middle of the half field set out a square with pawns, players are not allowed to walk through it with the ball, but are allowed to walk through it without the ball.
Set a goal; for example:
- First play with your team 4x before you can score.
- Try with at least 3 or more players in the circle to outplay the goalkeeper during the attack. Do not aim for the ball to go straight to goal when you enter the circle but look for the right passing options.
- Try to build up the attack from the sides.
- Always try to have someone at the guard.
- Put a bowl down if the attack threatens to fail.
- You can also say; the ball must go around the back of the box per new attack if they are going to be huge on a bowl.
- -. Or if a goal attempt fails that then the ball must first be taken out of the circle before a new attempt may be made.
Additional difficulty: always enlarge the box if the attack goes well
Questions to the players:
- What is the best way to set up an attack?
- What is the best way to defend an attack?
- Which side do you want to guide the attacker to when you are defending?
- Which side do you want to attack from?
- First play with your team 4x before you can score.
- Try with at least 3 or more players in the circle to outplay the goalkeeper during the attack. Do not aim for the ball to go straight to goal when you enter the circle but look for the right passing options.
- Try to build up the attack from the sides.
- Always try to have someone at the guard.
- Put a bowl down if the attack threatens to fail.
- You can also say; the ball must go around the back of the box per new attack if they are going to be huge on a bowl.
- -. Or if a goal attempt fails that then the ball must first be taken out of the circle before a new attempt may be made.
Additional difficulty: always enlarge the box if the attack goes well
Questions to the players:
- What is the best way to set up an attack?
- What is the best way to defend an attack?
- Which side do you want to guide the attacker to when you are defending?
- Which side do you want to attack from?
We are going to overpass between 2 pillons.
- Push.
- Flats.
- Stroke -if it goes well-.
Points of attention:
- Hands apart when stopping.
- If stopping goes well then stop high.
- Push first then increase distance for Flats.
- A starts with the ball and passes the ball to B.
- B passes the ball back to A.
- A takes the ball open and plays the ball to C.
- B runs through and gets the ball wide from C.
- From then on it is a 3 against 2: B, C, D against the 2 defenders.
- When the defenders intercept the ball they score at the goalmouth on the side
Focus areas:
- Maintaining speed in the game.
- Taking selfpass at pace, creating space.
- Overtime situation finishing on goal.
Taking the ball out at the orange pawns.
Alternate left and right.
Alternate left and right.
Defense is blue ---> set up left and set up right.
Alternately set up attack right and left.
Alternately set up attack right and left.
- 2 defenders in blue. These slide along to the left and right according to where the attack takes place:
- Situation A attack over left.
- Situation B attack over right.
- Choose 1 warm-up exercise from the warm-up exercises.
- Charging and Indian dribble:
- A pushes the ball to B and B rebounds the ball wide.
- A runs through to the one who can and receives the ball.
- A runs the Indian dribble towards the pawn. Fetch the ball from left to right.
- After the pawn drift back to the starting pawn.
- Passing over the backhand side:
- The player runs towards the pawns. You can stand there as a defender.
- The player threatens to pass on the left side but then moves to the right. Have them use a Dummy or a Reverse.
- Finish with a flats on goal
- Party with the focus on outside attacks.
- Defending between the opponent and the goal.
- Defending to the outside.
- Half field lengthwise.
- 1 goalkeeper in the circle.
- Change sides halfway through.
