Hockey: First Time Deflection Into Circle

- 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

*** 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.

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.

Player 3 runs into the channel. At the same time player 1 passes the ball to player 2. Player 3 has to time the run, so they can run out of the channel once player 2 is ready to pass the ball, not before. Again it is important that player 3 should not have to slow down to receive the ball, and should take the ball while continuing to run and shoot at goal.