Hockey: Reverse Drag Relay

Give everyone on the team the confidence to take the ball under pressure, beat a player with their 1-on-1 skills, then move it on.

Standing in pairs on each cone players have to run with the ball at the left cone of each gate. When they reach the gate they should then drag the ball to the right cone and run around the gate.

Once they have returned to where they started from the other player can run around the cones.

After a few goes each reverse the direction to change the way players do their reverse drag.

The aim of the game is to try and score goals from about 2m out.

The length of the game is approximately 2-3 minutes long and starts on the first whistle and stopped on the second whistle.

When the game is stopped it is important that there is a winner on each pitch. In the case of a draw the winner is decided on the throw of a stick (flat or round). Once every pitch has a winner all the winners move up one pitch (so if the player is on pitch 6 he moves to pitch 5). The losers do the opposite, they move one pitch down. The winner on pitch 1 and the loser on the lowest pitch have nowhere to move so they stay on their pitches.

Once everyone has moved the game can start again.

All the players with a ball must try and get from one side to the other without having their ball taken from them by the defender.

If they are tackled then they also become a defender.

None of the players are allowed on the islands (use cones to mark off these areas).

The last player to be tackled is the winner.

Player 1 runs at the right cone before dragging the ball across their body to their reverse stick and going around the cone. The player then passes the ball to Player 2 who repeats the exercise.