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Defence The Circle

category: Defending-Skills

Defender passes the ball. Attackers go 1 on 1 and try to penetrate the circle. Defenders priority is to stop the player getting through gate 1, then g...

1 V 2 Break Defense

category: Defending-Skills

Players work in pairs in this drill - attacking and defending pair. The player who starts with the ball has to dribble around the cone and then try t...

Defensive Awareness

category: Defending-Skills

The attackers (Red Players) have to try and dribble the ball around one of the red cones in the middle and then go back through their gate without bei...

Cover Defence

category: Defending-Skills

This video shows the movement of the cover defender (at the back) to the engaging defender.

Dribble Through - Defensive Zone Game

category: Defending-Skills

4 players inside the 23 meter area try to pass the ball through the defensive zone (the space between the 23 meter to the half way line) to the player...

Short Corner Defence 3 - 1

category: Set-Pieces

Setup the defence as shown with 2 defenders inside the goal on either post.In front of them are two runners.Once the ball is injected Player 1 runs to...

Draw Defence And Pass

category: Set-Pieces

The player on the free hits starts to move to try and draw the defender to come out. As soon as the defender moves towards the ball the player passes ...

Moving Defence Into Midfield

category: Game-related

In this practice the defensive players are in position of the field and have to try and keep possession of the ball and put through one of the players...

Passing Through A Line Of Defence

category: Possession

Create 2 end zones either side of a line. 2 players are in each end zone and 2 defenders on the line. The players in the end zones can pass the ball t...

Power Passing - Hit Beyond The Defence

category: Practices-For-Juniors

This game is developed to improve the power of players' passing. Players in this practice are only allowed to slap hit or push the ball because of the...

Skill training and defensive drills

Duke's Pam Bustin presents the fundamental skills of field hockey and then challenges those skills in many different ways. The "1v1 Defensive Techniqu...

Just hockey's practice zone defending drill 1

Field hockey drills: pullbacks

Hello! Here are drills for field hockey players to work on pullbacks, and including them in your game. Enjoy!