Hockey drills for technique condition

• 1 or 2 taggers.
• On the spot where you are tapped, the tagger must hold his hand, for example, a hand on his shoulder.
• With the other hand another has to be tapped.

• 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.

The flower (without or with ball):

• start at pilon 1 > to the center of the flower
• hitting each of the 4 surrounding pilons 1 by 1
• run back to pilon 1
• variations:
  • with stick and ball
  • relay race

• The group is positioned in the four corners of the field.
• One who tags has to wear a party ribbon
• On a sign, they cross the field in three directions of their choice:
• the short side, the long side or diagonal.
• This results in one, two or three points each time they return.
• A tagger operates in the free space and obliges the tagged children to first go back to their corner before they may cross again.
• How many points can you score in a set time?

• This is a good exercise for conditioning: 
• The group has to stand in a row and you let them start dribbling. 
• As soon as the trainer blows his whistle, the last one of the row should run forwards. 
• You do this until everyone has been there and then you let them finish running the track.

• Let the team run for about five minutes and then continue with the following exercises: 
• put out the pilons as shown in figure one.
• Have the team make two rows on the sideline at the height of the 23-metre line.
• Perform the following running exercises on the dotted line: 
• - Knee lifting (constructive 50%, 80%, 100%).
• - Heel to buttocks (building 50%, 80%, 100%).
• - Sideways
• - Cross step.
• - And finally, release the arms.  

• Flat
• Open reception,
• Accelerate & push pass out of the barrel (alternate with other techniques such as stroke, push pass, backhand pass).
• A flats to B (A runs after own ball);
• B takes it open and runs around the pilon.
• B accelerates with the ball stuck to the stick and plays the ball through the gates to A.
• Resumption

• From the back line to 23 m line in 30 sec 3x back & forth.
• 30 sec rest, then repeat.
• H1 level 4x (start competition half) 80% within time should be achievable.
• Pay attention to turning speed.
• Start low to quickly get on track.
• Carry energy in the turn.
• For larger groups, make 2 groups.
• Group one start on back line, group two on 23 meter line. When group one is running, group two is resting (30 seconds).

• 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.

• It works just like a normal game only now there's a square in the middle.
• If a shot or other foul is made, or if the ball has been out of bounds, the trainer throws/plays in a new ball from inside the square.
• The ball does not necessarily go to the same team or at the place where the foul was made.
• The size of the field depends on the number of players.

• Set up hats/pilons in such a way that they resemble a frying pan with a handle.
• The children are the eggs and dribble with the ball around the frying pan, they can always walk over the handle.
• The tagger is the cook, who likes to fry a delicious omelet with 3 eggs.
• So the cook tries to tag 3 eggs but is only allowed to walk over the handle 3 times.
• Each tagged egg is placed in the frying pan.
• How long does the cook need to tag the 3 eggs?

• Player A dribbles the ball to the next pilon and then plays the ball to player B.
• After playing the ball player A runs to player B's place.
• Player B does the same and plays the ball to player C.