Hockey: Short v Drag to eliminate

• Three players set up in a triangle formation, with the two attackers as the base of the triangle. The ball carrier is on the left side
• The ball carrier makes a positive run towards the outside of the defender
• Player without the ball (support player) runs into space to receive a pass and communicates they are ready to receive the pass
• The defender should get attracted to the ball and ball carrying attacker. As soon as the defender engages, the ball carrier should pass right to the supporting player

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Coaching Objective:

To promote weight transfer by transferring ball from side to side, jumping from one foot to the other. 

Purpose:

Develop the confidence to drag the ball from one side to another at different speeds. Plus create the spring in the transfer of weight so that when transfered to eliminations, the attacker has the ability to spring out of the skill and accelerate away.

 

Player 1 runs down the wing to then pass the ball backwards of square to player . He in turn gives the ball to player 3, who has run into the circle and then come out to receive the ball. Player 3 then plays a 1v1 with the defender.

Rotation 1 to 2, 2-3, 3-1.

Same down the right wing.

Set out cones on lines creating lanes across or down the pitch, each lane approx 2m wide. The player with the ball runs diagonally across the lanes, while the defender has to try and get in front of the player with the ball. Whenever the defender gets into the same lane as the player with the ball, the player with the ball has to change direction and run diagonally across the lanes in the opposite direction. Once the players get to the end of the lanes, the roles reverse.