Hockey drills for technique condition
- On the sides of the courts are balls.
- Each goalt in the corner of the field has its own color.
- In each field stand 2 players.
Exercise
- The players start in the middle of the field.
- When the trainer calls a color, the players must grab a ball from the side of the field as quickly as possible.
- The player who grabs the ball first must score in the color goal called by the trainer. The other player then goes to defend.
- If the attacking player scores in the said color goal, the players start again and the trainer calls another color and so the exercise repeats itself.
- Walking out.
- Rest.
- Width of field.
- Diagonal half-field build-up.
- Speed from 60% to 100%.
- Player A passes the pawns.
- Passes hard and cleanly to player B.
- A runs away from B.
- B passes to A and the latter takes to the run.
- Brings into the circle and rounds.
Points of attention:
- Fast, hard and clean passing.
- Takeover in the run.
- Keep speed.
Possibly extend with a defender in the circle.
- Set up the square with pawns as in the drawing.
- 2 teams of 3 people are formed. One team gets balls and the other team gets vests.
- One team may start with 1 player leaving with 1 ball to the square.
- A player from the vests team may then leave.
- Players may either put down an item or move an item.
- The team with 3 in a row first has won.
A one-two in depth with quick passes and finishing at high pace:
- Player A plays towards player B.
- A runs deep towards the first pawn -running line-.
- B passes back to A and runs deep towards the circle -short quick action-.
- A passes back to B.
- B takes on the forehand and spins away over the opponent's backhand -pawn-.
- C sprints in towards head of circle -timing-.
- B passes towards C possibly with the backhand sweep pass.
- C takes on, brings the ball into the circle and rounds. 2 actions, ball under control and round off.
- At trainer's signal, both players start sprinting.
- Blue must run around first pawn and Red runs straight through to tap Blue.
- Red becomes Blue and flips over.
- Turnover exercise with improving conditioning.
- Through the axis play out a 2-1 with shot on goal.
- On violation or goal a 3-3 on the side towards the center line.
- A guard pass is mandatory.
- 10 seconds for the 2-1 to create a shot and 10 seconds for the 3-3.
- At guard pass 3-3 the new 2-1 already starts.
- There is a box of 4 different colored pawns.
- The players start 5 to 10 meters away from the box (in this case the 23 meter line).
- The trainer calls out a number of colors in succession.
- E.g. Blue red orange blue.
- The players then run to those pawns and then back to where they started.
- Player RED comes out of the square and offers himself to player BLUE.
- BLUE passes to RED as he offers himself.
- Player WHITE pressures RED so it has to accept closed and plays back to BLUE (guard).
- Player RED makes an acceleration to the left or right next to the square.
- Player BLUE passes the ball to player RED looking carefully where RED asks for the ball (forehand or backhand).
- RED takes the ball open and penetrates the circle to finish on goal.
- TURN TO THE OTHER SIDE.
- RED JOINS AT STARTING POINT / BLUE JOINS IN THE SQUARE.
- Against a low press build up with 3 men.
- 2 centers and 2 wide midfielders + strikers on the back line.
- Simple high tempo finishing exercise to practice pass lines.
- You put 1 pawn down as a starting point.
- Then you put four pawns out like a fan at 8 meters distance.
- You sprint to the first pawn and then run backwards.
- Then 2 then 3 and 4.
- Next is player 2.
- Whoever gets everything first is the winner.
- Bigger finishing exercise with lots of meters.
- Turn over
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