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Using the Width to Attack - Introducing 2 v 1 - Junior Skills Session

Introducing 2 v 1 to Junior Players

The 2 v 1 is one of first game related skills, to start introducing to young players. And as their first insight into tactics and game understanding, it is important to do it write.

Make sure players are technically equiped with the required skills before introducing tactical concepts, or they will be too busy practice the skill to retain the other concepts you are trying to teach.

Try this session, I used with a group of talented 8 years olds, but depending on your groups level, you should be able to judge when best to use it.

To start the session we will first go through the various skills involved the indian dribble, the reverse stick drag, the pass after which we will add the skills to gather and finish with a 2 v 1 scoring at goal.

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Play Wide to go Forward

The session is to improve the running with the ball and passing under pressure.

The players should learn by running of the ball, or transfering the ball they can create space for the team to pass the ball forward and move closer to the oppositions goal.

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Players should stand inside the hoola hoop with the ball outside.
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Advanced Team Possession + Juniors Refresh skills and Keep Warm - 2 great sessions

This week we give you 2 great sessions. Some clubs juniors still haven't started again since the Christmas break, so our first session will be great for keeping even the youngest kids warm in the freezing weather. Our other session is a more advanced session working on team possesion.

Junior's Refresh skills and Keep Warm

This session is to 1 keep the kids very active (because of the time of year) remind them of some of the basic skills they learned . and to have some fun.

The skills are self-pass, running with the ball, taking on a player and a game.

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Advanded Team Possesion

Teams that keep possession well, are drilled with some basic key principles:

Top Tips

• Communicate, Communicate, communicate
• The biggest mistake that players make is to run with the ball in confined spaces. This invariably means loss of possession.
• The better teams are the teams with the players that run off the ball, not with the ball.

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1v1 Confidence and Passing the ball around the back - 2 great sessions

1 v 1 session to gain confidence

The purpose of this session is to give the players more confidence in holding the ball and try to take players on.

I am finding that the stronger players are beginning to dominate the games and the weaker players are just releasing the ball as soon as they get it so this session is to encourage and show all the players that they can also run and take players on.

During this session every thing relies on the individual especially in the 1v1 competition every player has to try playing 1v1.

I hoping that the in the next game all the player will be more confident in holding the ball and not passing the ball straight away for the sake of it.

Passing the ball around the back

This session is to help the team to practice positional play and improving to pass the ball around the back with convidence. The team currently tends to hit forward to early and indivuals will hold the ball to long and keep getting closed down and losing possession.

In the next game i am hoping to see the team pass the ball around the back at least once one way each time and at beat back again if required.

I am also hoping that players release the ball early so they do not get caught in possession.

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The following exercise is taken from - Hockey Go For Goal - 45 Top Drills to get your team scoring more goals

Customer Feedback :- "Very useful coaching aid. - Great to see alot of thought put into drills for keepers."

Goal Keeper Training

Save clear into the goal

DESCRIPTION
Player is positioned outside the D with 18 balls.
Keeper starts on the furthest cone away from this player.
Player hits the ball between the line of cones and the back line.
Golakeeper has to save the ball into the gola each time. After 6 saves on one cone move the next cone to repeat.

COACHING POINTS
Keeper should go back to touch the cone each time between each cross. (with nearest foot)
Player hitting has to try and beat the GK by hitting the ball past the far post. Player can hit whne the GK has touched the cone. Repeat the practice from the other side.

This exercise is taken from - Hockey Go For Goal - 45 Top Drills to get your team scoring more goals

This exercise is taken from - Coaching the Basics of Hockey - 10 Progressive Lesson Plans

Customer Feedback :- "Good Progressions - fun games to incorporate the skills"
Really like the plans; good progressions; great use of diagrams and pictures; and what I was most interested in are the fun games to incorporate the skills; best info I've seen for the younger age group
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Teaching the Indian Dribble

Road Safety Tag

Lay out lots of little streets with skipping ropes or cones 1 to 3 players without the ball rest of the players with a ball each the players without the ball has to try and tag a player with the ball. The catchers can not tag a player when the player is in one of the streets.

Variations
restrict the time players are allowed to stay on the street no more then 1 player per street

This exercise is taken from - Coaching the Basics of Hockey - 10 Progressive Lesson Plans