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Improve Attacking Down the Right

This week we look at session and skills which can be worked with players of all levels. As you know the players you coach best, adjust the intensity of the drills depending on the level of your players. This can spacing of the cones or width of the pitch. Or simply demand more of your players, the speed they execute key skills etc.

The aim of this session is to improve the attacking down the right wing. You need to work on passing and receiving the ball under pressure.

The reason we are doing this is because your team keeps going through the middle and we keep running into defenders. Attacking down the right is traditionally easy as it is the defenders weaker side, but also a cross coming in from the right is much easier for a team mate to run onto and collect and score.

So by doing this session we hope to pass the ball wide to the right and hope that we can use the space down the line to get behind the opposition and create some good opportunities to score.

Notes
Players in possession should look to commit a defender and then i.e. pass the ball past the defenders left foot in to thespace.

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Passing to a Moving Player + Go Back to Move Forward

Senior: - Passing to a Moving Player

Coach this session this get players moving to recieve passes. A pass direct to static player is easily intercepted as a defender can easily step in. So this session is designed to get players looking for players moving in space and the receivers to not expect a pass if they are static.

Despite the simplicity of some of the games in this session, the principles and skills are as important at all levels. This session has been used right up to premiereship level. Coach this session and watch the improvement in your players movement, players should stop expecting the ball when they are standing still and passers will look to pass to spaces and time their pass to the run of the receiver.

Don't have your players doing extra running when they don't have too, try this session this week.

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Juniors: - Go back to move forward

This session is to make the players aware of the space behind them and use it.

This should teach the players to run with the ball into gaps and when getting stuck reverse turn to play the ball to a support player who inturn looks to run forward with the ball to gain ground towards the goal.

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Breaking Down a Defensive Zone - Indoor Hockey

STOP "I don't need this I don't play indoor hockey"
Think of indoor hockey as just a refined form of the game, as port is a fine wine, indoor hockey is a finer form of hockey. There are many lessons all coaches and players can learn from indoor hockey.

As the season is about to go into winter break, it's time for some of us to start focusing on indoor hockey. The Sportplan Hockey libray has some top drills and lessons plans to help your team get the tactical advantage in the upcoming indoor season.

The Dice Defense

The half court Dice defence is the most commonly used formation in indoor hockey.

Coaching Points
It moves as a unit across the pitch and sets it self infront of the players with the ball at the moment the ball is passed into the zone the defensive players will close in on the player with the ball and up the pressure forcing the player to make a mistake and give a bad pass which can be intercepted and allow the defensive team to break and score.

The key to breaking down the dice defense is to exploit common mistakes and practice by repeatedly doing the same pattern of pass against a realistic defence.

This week we tell you how to identify the common mistakes and build attacking patterns against to break teh dice defence.

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