Hockey drills
Conditioning in combination with stick and Ball
- A: sprint from 1 to 2
- B: perform rope ladder as per 5 exercises below
- C: take ball around the hat and finish on goal
Note: if no rope ladders available then hats down
Points of attention:
Points of attention:
- Pay attention to your predecessor.
- Outside back.
- Exercise must be done at pace.
- two foot run -one foot in each box.
- Ladder Taps -right foot in each square, left foot outside.
- Two foot lateral run -sideways both feet in a box.
- Skiers.
- Squat Hops.
- Attacker on the ball runs up and does a reverse.
- Passes to attacker 2.
- 2 vs. 2 starts.
Exercise:
- Player Blue stands between the four pawns and plays player Red firmly -hard push.
- Player Blue keeps eye contact with player Red and chooses position left or right between the pawns.
- Player Red plays the ball firmly back to Blue's chosen position -attack position.
- Player Blue accepts open and then finishes on goal.
Important:
- Players Blue and Red stand with straight backs and bent legs on the ball of the foot. In the 'starting blocks'.
- Stick just slightly above the knees.
Construction:
- Player Blue takes open first at both attack positions on the forehand, then on the backhand, then alternately.
Level:
- For 1st year D players, it is recommended that the trainer take the role of player Red in the beginning.
- As confidence grows, and effectiveness, players can assume the role of Red.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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.
- Player plays the ball hard through push 1 ==> 2 runs directly after her/his pass
- Flattens the ball hard over long distance 2 ==> 3
- Drives the ball to the back line and passes to 4
- Takes to round at pace on goal
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
