Hockey: Player in the Middle: Hitting

Shift the defence to create gaps in their press to exploit. Develop your teams patience and recognition of where the space will come.

Progress from the transferring technique to get your players recognising where the attacking options are after transferring.

Begin developing your teams transfer by nailing the technique, disguising passes and making the right decision as to when to pass long and when to stay short.

- Utilising the standard hit
- Hands together at the top of the grip
- Player should stroke through the ball
- Push the ball outside of the left foot
- Step into the ball, transferring weight the the left foot which should approximately be in line with the ball

Player 1 starts dribbling the first ball across the square, in the middle they pass (push) the ball to player 2 and carry on running across. Players 3 and 4 do similar. Players pass to the left and the right. Designed to practice pass camouflage.

2 players have to cleverly pass the ball to each other to create an opportunity to pass through the goal to the other side (into space).

The defender can only intercept once the ball has gone through the goal.

As above, but now introduce a defender who can first try and intercept only, later tackle. In this case, the left winger.
movie needs to change to pressyre only being on no 2