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Hockey: Reverse stick drag

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- Moving the ball from left to right

COACHING POINTS

- Ball should be carried in front of the body, utilising a large drag to move it outside of the right foot

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Warm Up Circuit:

Setup:

Lay out sticks on the ground about 1 metre apart.
Six sticks should be laid in a continuous straight line.
Five cones in a zig-zag formation.
Use ladders or a line of two cones close together (about 30cm between each pair).
Place a stick on a pair of cones x6, about 1 metre between each one.

The drill:

Players run in and out of the sticks
Players jump with feet together over the sticks (from left to right followed by right to left)
Run round the cones, the players should touch the cone with the inside hand each time
Players touch the pitch with one foot between each space
Players run through and over as fast as they can. Check that they lift their knees nice and high going over the hurdles.

Warm-up Games

Reverse stick Drag stage 6:

To finish the skill progression you can put out a pretend player with a flat stick and get the player to do a double drag or a lift the video shows a double drag

Video Techniques

Reverse stick Drag stage 5:

Reverse stick

at this level the reverse stick is used to transfer the ball from left to right and not as a separate technique

Video Techniques

Reverse stick Drag stage 4:

This time the player should start with the ball in the middle. The player should start the skill by dragging the ball towards the left cone before dragging the ball to the right cone and run forward

Video Techniques

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