Hockey drills

• Passing: 
  • push, slap, hit, overhead, running lob
• Receiving:
  • FH: left hand forward, walk/run into the bal, open- closed control
  • BH: receive with a high backhand run into direction of the ball
• Note: receive always on the move 

• Purpose; passing over large distances, while running. Finishing and tackleback.
• A plays long pass to B, 
• B drives the ball to the right and plays through to C who shoots at goal. 
• Once the shot has been completed, the next player on A passes to D
• and D starts a dribble towards the goal (scoring past penalty spot), 
• C defends this attack.
• Rotation: A1BCDA2

• Defender plays the ball to the right back. 
• Right half pulls in and right front goes deep. 
• Defender gives a deep pass on the right front. 
• Right front turns away and plays the ball back on the midfielder. 
• Midfielder puts the ball back on the other central defender who comes in. 
• Pass to left back and then perform the same exercise as over right.

• 1 plays the ball using the bar to 2

  2 runs in, controls the ball, moves towards the axis of the pitch and plays via the bar to 3

  3 runs in, takes on and plays to the running-through number 2

  2 Takes on and shoots (high) on target

  
  

  
  

  Same for 4,5,6 if there are enough players for that

  
  

  Press and hold 1-2-3-1 (or 1-2-3-4-5-6-1)

• 3 persons stand at the pilons and try not to let the player in the middle touch the ball. 
• It is important that the diagonal pass is not made possible. 
• So the players without the ball have to stand in the corners compared to the player with the ball.

Variation:

• Attacker plays to defender, and plays the ball back to the attacker.
• Then the attacker is allowed to attack towards goal. 
• At 1, the ball begins and passes to the defender who then passes it to the out-going attacker. 
• From there it is 2 to 1
• See number 2, only the players remain and it becomes a 4 against 2.

• There is one tigger without ball and two players without ball.
• It is thrown over accurately, whoever has the ball, can be tagged, a player without ball can not be tagged.
• The ball may be held for a maximum of ten seconds.
• If the tagger has intercepted a ball, the ball goes out of play.
• If you are tagged, you go to the side when no. 2 comes to the side, no. 1 goes back into the game

• Put out a square of 10 by 10 meters. 
• A player is placed at 3 pilons. 
• One pilon remains empty. 
• The player with the ball plays to the pilon without a player. 
• The player standing diagonally runs to the pilon and receives the ball. And so on. 
• In this way, the next goal is reached: 
  • a lot of movement, 
  • playing while running
  • take it in motion.

• The children run through the room in pairs.
• One child tries to follow the other.
• Variation
• The child at the front has to suddenly change tempo.
• The child in front must always change direction sharply.
• Groups of four or five children.
• Groups of four or five children and when the signal is given, the one in the back sprints to the front and then leads the rest.

• There are all kinds of obstacles in the field, such as mats, hoops and pilons.
• The trainer leads the way along these obstacles, the children follow him.
• Variation
  • The children run in pairs along these obstacles.
  • They run  backwards.
  • They run while taking sideways steps.

Aim

• A game is not only fun, you also learn a lot from them.

Set up

• Very simple: 2 goals, some vests and some balls. 
• Surely no more explanation is required? 
• This kind of game isn't really for training something specific (e.g. playing outside with a box in the middle), but just to have fun.
• If a team goes loses way too easy, you can enter the rule that they have to pass 3 times before they can score. 
• Or you can make that team's goal smaller.

INSTRUCTIONS

• 2 teams
• 5 players per team
• 3 goals per team
• 2 yellow independent goals in the centre of the pitch

• Game: team blue against team red. 
• Team red scores at one of the 3 blue pilons and team blue scores at one of the 3 red pilons. 
• When the ball goes through one of the two yellow goals, the goals turn around. 
• Team blue scores at the blue pilons and team red scores at the red pilons. 
• When the ball goes through one of the yellow goals again, it turns around again.

AREAS OF CONCERN

Ball possession Take a good look at which of the 6 goals there's a lot of free space

Not in ball possession Trap the player with the ball from multiple sides