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Hockey drills

  • recieve the ball on your forehand or backhand,
  • recieve forehand and turn strong to your left site.
  • recieve backhand and turn strong to your right site.
  • under press:
    • recieve on the side were the defender is and recieve strong turn the other way and speed up
drawing reverse forehand and backhand
  • Passing: 
    • push, slap, hit, overhead, running lob
  • Recieving:
    • FH: left hand forward, walk/run into the bal, open- closed recieve 
    • BH: recieve with a high backhand run into direction of the ball
  • Note: recieve always on the move 
drawing Passing recieving
  • Push: In the cirkel and close by the goal
  • slap: for a deflection or from 2 meter inside the cirkel
  • deflection: 
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ7-bvFhojs
  • hit: top of the cirkel FH/BH 
  • FH:
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sgx-pvioXrE
  • BH: 
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0PC3GbGRm0


drawing Scoring
  • Dribble:
    • indian dribble: make touches from FH/BH if you have control increase the speed
    • dummy: drag the bal to your left food make a c pull with out the ball, drag the ball with your backhand to your righthand site and speed up
    • 3d skill: 
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahig2BR72Do . 
    • it all starts with lifting of the ball in the air you make a move to change direction 
drawing Dribble, 3d skil
  • 3 v 2 :
    • ball speed is importend as is the shortest way to the goal
    • make a triangle with one player wide and one player up high to stretch the field 
    • look for the 2 v 1 
    • defenders Work together and defend zone 
  • 4 v 3 :
    • make sure where you want to play 
    • make game like postions: Center mid, left mid, center striker and left forward 
    • ball speed 
drawing 3 v 2 and 4v 3
  • defenders: 
    • 4 man build stretch the field and dare to play forward 
    • center mid; postion offset that means always be on the other side as the ball ( always help side ) 
    • Lmid and Rmid: start small and not on the same hight, lead outside and get the ball on the line moving forward (help side mid open up)
    • center stricker: start up high and make a lead into the ball when the LMid or Rmid is leading outside 
    • Left forward and right forward: lead outside and move back inside if you get the ball. if you dont get the bal lead forward and inside. 


drawing game plan 4 man build up
  • Defender: 
    • central free defender moves into mid field, Left and right back  come more inside 
    • center mid; move up a bit so the central defender has more space 
    • LM and Rm : open the field as wide as possible 
    • Center striker : connect with the CM mid or RM and LM
    • Left and right forward: stretch the field 
  • Zone : 
    • if the opponent plays zone marking you can try to play inside or trow a high ball wide into space man to man:
    • play inside drop and bite and go asap wide. look for the 2-1 
drawing Game plan 3 or 5 man build up
  • Defender: 
    • central free defender moves into mid field, 
    • Left and right back  come more inside 
    • center mid; move up a bit so the central defender has more space 
    • LM and Rm : open the field as wide as possible 
    • Center striker : connect with the CM mid or RM and LM
    • Left and right forward: stretch the field 
    • 5 man build is the same only difference is that the central mid is dropping in to the defense line 
  • Zone : 
    • if the opponent plays zone marking you can try to play inside or trow a high ball wide into space 
    • man to man:
      • play inside drop and bite and go asap wide. look for the 2-1 
drawing Game plan 3 or 5 man build up
  • defense system
    • defend man to man 
    • central free defender close the gaps 
    • everyone move to ball side 
    • center striker is responsible for the 2 central defenders all the other marking man to man 
drawing Half court
  • full press:
    • defend the inside areas
    • force them to go wide
    • center striker: responsible for the 2 center backs, 
      • start on 5 m and inside, 
      • when they pass wide close them to that side 
    • Left and right forward: responsible for the right and left back, 
      • defend the inside and force them to pass or walk down the line 
    • Mid: man to man marking 
    • Lm and Rm: man to man and when they force the player to walk down the line block them in a double with the forward 
    • Right back and left back: man to man marking and intercept when they pas down the line 
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5W-zK1tptw
  • jab: take your stick in your left hand and poke the bal or close to the ball to put pressure on the bal. 
    • left food forward right food back
    • move quick forward and back 
    • forse them to one side ( FH side)
  • channel:
    • pick up the speed of the attacker 
    • change body postion to force them outside 
    • follow the attacker and make a steal Fh or save backhand 
  • block tackle:
  • step in to the bal 
  • sit low with your stick on forehand side 
  • mostly after jab you block tackle 
drawing defense Jab, channel and block tackle
  • 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.
drawing Passing gates