Hockey: First Time Deflection Into Circle

Practice starts with player 3 passing the ball to player 2. Who in turn passes the ball to player 1.
Player 3 has run towards the top of the circle to receive the ball form player 1 and shoots at goal.


Rotation of players - 1 moves to 2, 2 moves to 3, 3 moves to 1.

- 5 yard square
- 3 forwards and 2 defenders
- Forwards must stay on the outside of the square
- Defenders cannot leave the square or tackle the player in possession
- Forwards around the square can move around
- If a defender intercepts the ball, they should swap with the forward who made the pass

2 teams both with a ball. The object is for one of the wingers to get to the back line without being tackled. For a tackler to be released by the other team, the tackler has to receive and leave the ball in the coned area.

When one of the wingers is threatened the team should try and change the point of attack by passing the ball via every player to the other side. To release the other tackler, the ball has to be passed via sweeper.

*** AUDIO DESCRIPTION ON ***

• Objective: Players to be in the correct position when deflecting a ball at the back post.
• Purpose: Increase the chances of connecting with the ball and therefore scoring a goal.
• Set-up: 
• A midfield passer will start with the ball and wait for an attacker to make a run on the edge of the D. 
• Attacker will initially run towards the passer to show for the ball, then peel off, aiming their run towards the baseline.
• At this point, the passer will play the ball into the attackers path and the far post attacker will start their run towards the far post.
• Attacker with the ball will hit a cross in the direction of the far post.
• The far post attacker should be in a set position and attempt to deflect the cross into the goal.