Hockey drills for technique defense
- Game with the three teams,
- Make three equal and fair teams.
- A team starts as the defenders (on the picture the red one).
- A team starts as the attackers (in the picture the blue one)
- a team behind the 23 meter line (on the picture the white one)
- For the defenders the intention is to pass the ball to one of the white ones in the box at the 23 meter line.
- For the attackers the intention is to score.
- When they have scored they get 1 point
- For the team behind the 23 meter line, they are supposed to take the ball as the defenders take it to their pass.
- If the ball is with the team that is behind the 23 meter line their attacks will start.
- The team that was attacking and the team that was defending will be in the box behind the 23 meter line.
- In this way, it keeps on turning.
- The one who gives the most points at the end wins.
- Tips for the attackers
- Play the freeman when you are in possession of the ball and make sure that someone runs deep into it
- Pass over your opponent's backhand side
- If you are not in ball possession make sure you close the lines to the people in the box behind the 23 meter line.
- Tips for the defenders
- Make sure you are defended outside the circle so that they can't pull out
- Keeps track of your own male
- Close the backhand side so they can't pass over it.
- If you do have the ball look up the space and keep passing until there is a hole and you can give it to the people in the box.
- Further practice with half court press.
- The goal is that they realize what to do when the ball is passed.
- How are we supposed to walk as a front runner.
- Ball starts at A
- The 3 defenders will stand in such a way that the line is closed and so the ball can only be passed to the sides or back out.
- A gives the ball towards B because the line is closed.
- Now comes what the whole exercise is about what the 3 defenders should do now.
- V1 slides so that it is in front of the ball so that the ball cannot be given straight forward.
- V2 stands between the person with the ball and the ball goal line
- V3 which dribbles to the attacker C who comes closer. V3 prevents C from getting the ball and defends on the inside. between the opponent and the goal.
- From here on it is a 3:3
- On the other hand it is exactly the same and discs the defenders the same.
- You let them play a 3:2. Red wants to score the goal and blue wants to intercept and defend the ball.
- When the exercise is running you can add the extra blue defender later on.
- This player will run a tackle back.
- He is allowed to run when the first ball is played.
- Instructions you can give to the attackers
- Ball should always be able to go back,
- Create speed and keep it in your attack,
- someone makes depth so that you keep the field long, pass the ball into the forehand of your fellow player,
- Pass the ball over the opponent's backhand side.
- Questions you can ask the attackers
- What is the purpose of the exercise?
- How can you reach the goal and what do you have to do for it?
- What is the task of which player with which pilon?
- Which pass technique is best to use?
- Instructions you can give to the defenders
- Slow down your opponent by pushing them outward,
- You don't have to take the ball right away but wait for the opponent to make a mistake,
- The line must always be tight
- Questions you can ask the defenders
- What is the purpose of this exercise for you?
- How can you reach the goal and what do you have to do to achieve it?
- What is the most important task you have within this exercise?
- Attack through the middle which starts with a 2:1
- B is a deep man starting in the circle. A starts with the ball and together with B he wants to complete the goal.
- C wants to slow down the game and close the pass lines so that D gives the time to come and help him.
- Goal of attackers:
- Ball pass over the opponent's backhand side.
- Playing a fellow player on the forehand
- Making eye contact with your fellow player
- Speed making
- Goal of the defender
- Float your opponent to your forehand (your backhand side must be closed)
- Accompany your opponent
- Slow down the game so that D gives time to come and help you
- When D has arrived, one goes on the deep man and the other puts effective pressure on the opponent and waits with the ball take away until the opponent makes the mistake.
- An extension to the exercise of an attack over right under defenders.
- The goal of the exercise is that the 3 attackers want to get past the two defenders in an effective way.
- First have them do it again a number of times. After that the exercise that they have done for this purpose will come back.
- This is exactly what they have to do, only now there are defenders and they have to watch even more and give the safe pass.
- The first ball of A always goes back and from there they can build up.
- It then becomes a 3:2
- A game form where switching is tested.
- You make two teams, if you score one goal you can take the ball out immediately and you will score on the other side.
- This means that both teams have to switch because they are now coming towards the other goal.
- V1 passes the ball to V2.
- V2 takes on open/closed and finishes at goal.
- V1 passes the ball to A1.
- A1 attacks, V2 defends.
- V1 passes the ball to A2.
- A2 coincides with A1, V2 defends.
- V1 passes the ball to A3.
- A3 attacks together with A1 and A2, V1 and V2 defends.
- Points of attention:
- Let the defenders choose who they go for, on the ball or continue to cover their man.
- Attackers must keep moving.
- The exercise can be played on two sides.
- A starts with the ball and plays the ball to B (defender must not intercept)
- B then has to play the ball back to A (defender may intercept this ball)
- When A has the ball again he plays it back to C
- C takes the ball and plays a 2 against 1 together with A who has ran through
- Tips for attackers:
- Keep speed in your game
- Play over backhand side of opponent
- See where your fellow player is standing
- Tips for Defenders
- Push them to the side
- Close the pass line between the attackers.
- Each team has 5 inverted pylons to defend.
- The pylons are on the line and the players may only stand/defend on their own half.
- Which team knocks over the pylons of the other first.
- The children are placed in 2 rows.
- The trainer stands just behind the 2 rows and rolls a ball forward.
- The front 2 players try to conquer the ball.
- The player in possession
- drives the ball towards the goal.
- The other tries to conquer the ball again.
- From a marked point, the ball may not be taken away and the player in possession makes a shot at goal.
- You place 11 pylons at different distances, under each pylon you put a stack of city names.
- Each 2 tries to reach all 11 pylons as fast as possible.
- You dribble to a pylon, take a city map and take it back with you, tap the next one and it runs to another pylon.
- Each city you return to the trainer will be stamped on the 11 city card.
- Who reached the 11 cities first?
(first practice without ball and stick)
- defender 1 passes to attacker 1
- attacker 1 to attacker 2
- through pass from attacker 2 to attacker 1
- defender 1 defends on attacker 1 when he has received the through pass
- attacker 2 attacks > 2v1