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Hockey: Leading, receiving and ball carrying.

Excellent drills, very detailed videos. Useful site for my U15 boys...

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Player 1 (P1) Dribbles through the cones and passes to P2 who moves towards the cone to receive the pass.

P2 then passes to P3 who moves towards the cone to receive the pass and passes to P4.

P4 then moves towards the cone to receive the pass and then dribbles and crosses for P5, who moves towards the cone to receive the pass and shoots.

P6 then starts off dribbling through the cones and passes to P7 who moves towards the cones to receive the pass and then passes to P8.

P8 then makes a lead to get free before dribbling through cones and then passes to P9 who receives the ball in their stride and dribbles through cones and crosses to P10 who gets free and shoots.

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All players follow their pass to the next station and then the pattern starts all over again.

Note, all movements of receivers are from one cone to the other.

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There should be approximately 4 players on each of the 3 stations in this drill.

The player at the top of the pitch (player 2) starts with the ball and passes player 1 on the wing. Player 1 should run in field to meet the pass.

Player 1 then lifts the ball over the stick and runs with the ball to the 3 cones, performs a reverse stick drag and then progresses down the field to the 3rd cone.

In the mean time players 2 and 3 have both made a run into the D to receive the ball back from player 1 and score a goal.

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Goal scoring test:

In this test the player starts by rolling the ball into the 'D' to the forehand side and hits the ball at goal.
The next ball is pushed to the left and hit with the reverse stick side only, then the next ball to the right, etc.

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Figure of 8 around the cone:

The player stands facing the cones.

Standing still the player should move the ball around the cones in a figure of eight shape.

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Pull Back:

Player runs to the left of the cone and pulls the ball back. He/she then runs to the next cone etc. On completion of the circuit, give the ball to the next player.
3 - 4 players per group, if space is limited and there are more then 4 players per group, use 2 balls.

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