Field Hockey: coaches

Do you have any plans to offer a Club membership whereby a Club could take out a subscription that would allow access to all its coaches?

The new rules - what will UK coaches be focussing on most? (Living in NZ, we're playing them now!)

Jon, so many International Hockey Coaches now have 'earphones' during their matches - who is on the other end amp; what info is the Coach exchanging? Thx.

...where it will list and describe playing terminology such as shave, tackle-back, steal, forehand.

EH have just launched their Golden Thread objectives for the single system (& above) - will some activities be created to reflect these? It is more gameplay & less directive / closed "drills". Cheers Alex.

I have created lots of plays, sketches and animations etc and I have them in a folder and I would like other coaches I work with to be able to access them. How can I share folders

Morning Team. We from South Africa and we have developed a coaching program for grades 1 to grade 12. These programs were developed to assist our coaches and teachers in how to train the grades they were involved in.I have one question: We are moving to download our paper based training into the Sportplan format as it gives us a way of presenting our product to the coaches and teachers but the question I would like to know is; can we sell the coaching plans through your website?Many thanksIan

I am currently undertaking an EPQ (extended project question) psychology in hockey with my title being 'How does psychology impact the progress of a hockey player at different levels?' To help collect information in order to write this essay I have created a survey which is aimed at hockey coaches of all different levels. It would be great if some coaches could fill this out to help me with my EPQ. The link is below if you would like to fill it out, and the survey only takes between 5 and 10 minutes. https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BHDDJKC

I'm currently coaching a team of 18 year old girls.(Field Hockey) Some players don't show up for practice or when they do, they aren't motivated to give their best. Despite my tiring efforts to try and motivate them as a good AND bad guy. I am out of ways to punish and/or motivate the girls. What do you coaches do to keep your team committed? And when they aren't, what are your ways of handling the situation?

how do you share your plan with your coaching team

I am looking to add an assistant coach to my team. Will they be able to assist with creating coaching plans with this access, or do they have to have their own membership? We are trying to keep all of our videos and practice plans in a centralized profile, so it would be helpful if they coudl create from my profile as a team member.

Morning,I need to add new coaches to our organisation group. How do I do this?Regards,Hermann - St John's Northwood

Hi, I am trying to work out how I am able to add our 5 coaches with their own login details so they can use all the conent available.Kind RegardsJessica Smith

We are in desperate need of more coaches for our high school program. Where can we look/post the job?

Can we have 1 membership per club so all coaches can access it on mulitple devices or will we have to have separate accounts?

Hi all- I am 37 years old. I played field hockey for 3 years only (in high school). As you can imagine, I'm not very good/experienced. I was a competitive soccer player which made me good enough athletically to play field hockey but anyway, the point is: I never played field hockey at a high level.I now find myself in a head coaching position. (Long story-I did coach some field hockey some years ago and had a blast but it was a while back). Anyway, I have three assistant coaches who aren't much more experienced than I am. Our high school program is VERY weak and so nobody really steps up to coach there.Basically, my question is: what do I do? I have some girls who have played but not much. Then I have girls who literally don't know how to hold their stick and are quite I athletic. We barely have enough girls to field a team. As for drills, I'm trying to use this site but if you were in my position, what specifically would you be doing with these girls so they don't lose 7-0 every game? Right now, I'm focusing on body control and comfort with the ball- (we are playing possession and they are so uncomfortable they just hit the ball away because they don't have the skills to hold). Any help you can give is greatly appreciated!Brooke Asked using Sportplan Mobile App

Hi,I perhaps naively, expected to have most of our team from last year carry over and only have a few new comers to integrate and get up to speed with the rest. However meeting the team at our first practice last night i find I have five players still at school from last year and the rest all new comers, most of whom had not held a hockey stick at all till practice.This being only my second season coaching (year 9 to year 13 boys) has left me feeling a little blindsided, and feeling quite unsure how to prepare practices that target both groups of boys. Do i lump them both groups together, keep them separate? What drills/exercises to best bring the new comers up to speed.I don't want to neglect either group, keep practice worthwhile for the experienced boys, but also bringing the new comers up to a level were they can mix in with the others and learn organically from them while practicing as a team. David

I have just returned from coaching my first high school hockey tournament. It was great fun but the girls really felt it by the end of the tournament. I want to offer guidance in the form of a fitness build up to the girls for next season but am not sure what my expectations should be. How fit should you be looking to get if you are preparing to play 7 50min games over 5 days? And what types of fitness should I be suggesting? Sprinting and Intervals along with Swimming are things I feel that could be introduced. Ideally it needs to be accessable (not expensive or require special equipment), self managed (to an extent) and let it fit in with their daily rountine as best possible to give them the best chance to commit (i.e. I feel like suggesting they power walk to school rather than get dropped off will work better than asking them to join a gym to do the pelaton classes) Any ideas? Or things that have worked in the past?

I have been given my first team ever!! They are 11 year old girls and I wanted guide/ recommendation on how I should structure my one hour sessions? E.g. how long should I spend on a warm up, drill etc. .Cheers,Freya