Hockey drills for technique warming-up
Warm up exercise in relay form
- Divide the players into groups of 2 or 3 players and place them on the left side of the field.
- Give each player a tennis ball.
- At the start sign, the 1st player of each group starts running to the other, right, side with a ball.
- Once there, they put the ball outside the line and run back as fast as they can so that player 2 of their group can start running with his/her ball.
- When all the balls are on the right side and the last player has returned to his/her group, it is over.
- The first one back to his/her group wins.
Each exercise 2x so 2 rounds
- Dribble
- Exercise right
- Exercise left
- Exercise both sides
Exercises:
- Dribbling
- Ground touch
- Heels buttocks
- Lift the knee
- Connecting pass sideways
- Cross pass
- A pushes or B
- B passes alternately to C or D.
- They round on goal.
- 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.
Attack down the right with a tip-in.
- Teach players to execute the attack over the right side.
- Focus on using a tip-in as a finishing technique.
- Important to recognize the timing and position of the tip-in.
- Players should also learn when to take the ball and turn away from the goalkeeper.
- Position play 0 against 0
- Then 3 against 1
- Taking the ball and passing it straight back
- Crossing diagonally with warm-up exercise
Warm up three exercises
Exercise 1: Overplay
Exercise 2: Run and play.
Exercise 3: Run to the left and play.
Exercise 1: Overplay
Exercise 2: Run and play.
Exercise 3: Run to the left and play.
Exercise 1: Overplay.
- Two players face each other, both near the bar with 1 ball.
- They play the ball to each other on the forehand.
Note:
- They must keep the stick low when attacking the ball and the ball must be pushed.
- They must keep the stick low when attacking the ball and the ball must be pushed.
Exercise 2: Run and play.
- Groups of 3 or 4 players.
- 2 players on one side of the bar with ball, the others on the opposite side.
- One player with ball starts walking to the other side.
- Halfway, the player passes the ball to a player on the other side.
- That player takes the ball and now runs to the middle himself and then passes the ball on.
- Once the ball is played, the player continues to run across to the other side.
Note:
- They must keep the stick low when taking the ball.
- Left elbow forward as you run with the ball.
- Walk in when the ball is played to you.
- They must keep the stick low when taking the ball.
- Left elbow forward as you run with the ball.
- Walk in when the ball is played to you.
Exercise 3: Run to the left and play.
- Groups of 3 or 4 players.
- 2 players on one side of the bar with ball, the others on the opposite side.
- Same as exercise 2 but now the player does not run straight ahead with the ball but in an arc to the left and then plays the ball.
- When the ball is played, the player continues walking to the other side.
Attention:
- Stick low when taking the ball.
- Ball stays to the right of the player as he/she runs the arch to the left.
- Walk in when the ball is played to.
- Stick low when taking the ball.
- Ball stays to the right of the player as he/she runs the arch to the left.
- Walk in when the ball is played to.
- Piece float.
- Indian dribble.
- Forehand - then take backhand ball - red-.
- Backhand - then take backhand ball - blue-.
- Expand to relay and switch sides.
Put out as many times as there are players:
- Each player has their own pawn.
- They play 1-1 with the person opposite them.
- The ball is in the middle.
- At the whistle, they start trying to tap the other person's pawn.
- After a certain time, blow the whistle.
- Player who won moves one space to the right on the loser 1 to the left.
- In case of a tie; stone paper scissors.
With 3 players run up, pass and finish.
- Blue passes to red, runs after ball and connects behind red.
- Red passes to white, runs after ball and connects behind white.
- White passes to blue, runs behind ball and connects behind blue.
- And so on.
- The one with the ball on the edge of the circle rounds off.
- At trainer's signal, both players start sprinting.
- Blue must run around first pawn and Red runs straight through to tap Blue.
- Red becomes Blue and flips over.