Hockey drills for technique condition
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.
- 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.
Divide your group into 2 teams.
- Red player in center plays defender in and gets ball back. 2 - 1 hockey out in the 'forbidden' zone.
- Right blue player starts with ball and plays defender in, plays back to blue and a 3 - 3 starts in the 'forbidden' zone and right field.
- Defenders may score in the goal if the ball is intercepted.
- After this attack, an attack starts from the left.
- Player red plays into the defender, plays back and a 4-4 in the whole 23 meter area starts.
- Defenders can defend by scoring in one of the goals.
On offense -with advantage- or off-ball, pass immediately to next attack.
Add extra: Scoring within 10/15 sec. Start when the attacker receives the ball back from the defender.
- 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.
Relay 4
- Players blue and red start at the same time with the ball
- Slalom around the 5 pawns --> cross --> around the green pawn and finish on goal.
- If you score, you may immediately choose the shortest path to tap your next teammate.
- If you miss; wide, post or the ball does not reach the goal, you make a detour via the red or blue pawn/triangle.
- Players blue run back via the blue pawn and players red via the red.
- When you have been, you sit on the ground.
- The team that has all players on the ground first wins the relay.
- Depending on the number of players, you may choose to have all players take their turn twice.
- Switch sides halfway through the exercise.
- Jump 3 times
- Sideways to the first pawn
- Sideways back to the back line
- Sprint to the second pawn
- Slow dribble back
- Start at common pace after instruction from trainer
- 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.
