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Hockey: Short Corner Technique

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This is the final progression in the diving technique. The goalkeeper starts on their line and runs out 3 / 4 paces before stopping. You then start diving across to save the ball that the coach has thrown with an underarm throw.

This technique can be used to develop the necessary skills for diving at short corners or 1 v 1 skills with attackers.

COACHING POINTS

Make sure that the GKs hips are the first part of the body to touch the pitch.

Ensure that the hand / stick are close together.

Make sure that the GKs vision is not impaired by placing hands / stick in front of eyes.

When landing try to land on your elbow and stay balanced on it to allow for secondary saves.

Kick legs out so they are stacked one on top of the other to make a big barrier.

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Speedy Feet:

Setup as shown.

Coach and goalkeeper about 1m apart.

Coach starts with some balls about 8m out. The coach feeds the ball to the goalkeeper who quickly kicks the ball into the goal. This can be done on either foot or a mixture of both feet.

If the goalkeeper finds it to hard, then move further back to give them more reaction time.

Goal keeping

Touch the cone and save:

Coach stands at the top of the circle and calls out a colour of a cone. Goal keeper has to touch the cone and recover back to the goal to try and save the shot.

Coach should give the GK a Change. (how ever small)

Goal keeping

Slide out:

Goal keeper starts on the goal line.

Coach places a ball inside the circle. GK has to run towards the ball and try to slide the ball with pads or body out of the circle.

Goal keeping

Triangle Movement Drill:

Setup the practice as shown.

The space between the penalty spot and the 1st cone should be 2m and the same distance between the penalty spot cone and the cone nearest the top of the circle.

The goalkeeper starts on the penalty spot and on the command moves forwards to the first cone before moving diagonally backwards to cone 2 and then moves sideways back to the penalty spot to kick the ball into the goal.

Goal keeping

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