Field Hockey: defend

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How can a defender defend against a reverse stick hit?

How can a defender defend against a reverse stick hit on goal?

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how to defend a ball,when my opponent push the ball?

how to defend a ball,when my opponent push the ball to my left ?

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My team are constantly allowing oppositions to score?

My team are constantly allowing oppositions to score from penalty corners we do 1st runner 2nd runner amp; 2 players on the post, what can I do.

Leanne Johnston Coach, Ireland

Anyone got a drill for teaching how to defend aainst?

Anyone got a drill for teaching how to defend against a full or 2/3 press?

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What is your best advice to a boy playing sweeper in a team with a poor defense

My son has been given the role of sweeper in a team that has only won  twice in two years.  He is probably the weakest player in the team.  What advice can I give him to think about when playing, so that he can improve and enjoy a personal sense of achievement. In training sessions I have never seen any drills designed to organise the defence which is amazing since the teams ambition is usually to keep the goals against to single figures! Are there standard apporoaches as to how close to be  to the player you are marking or which side to stand to stop the attacker getting free with the ball on his open stick?.

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Need baseline/Goalling defending tips?

How do you present to defenders how they must defend the baseline from the right

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How to defend baseline from left for U21 hockey team?

how best can l defend baseline from left for an under 21 hockey team

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Question about a drill in the Sportplan session

Hi, in this week's session "My players lack the ability to pass accurately", there's a progressive exercise called "shoot and recover". Sorry if this is a dumb question but when a player is 'shooting' at their target goal, is the other player allowed to defend the goal?I ask because the diagram makes it look like you're pushing over around 12m and I'd have thought that unless you make the goals huge, with a player defending the goal, people just aren't going to score.Also, if you make the goals really big, it kinda defeats the person of the accuracy element to the exercise.Hope you can assist. Regards,Gary

Gary Thompson Coach, England

How to coach school team with novices and experienced players?

Hi,I perhaps naively, expected to have most of our team from last year carry over and only have a few new comers to integrate and get up to speed with the rest. However meeting the team at our first practice last night i find I have five players still at school from last year and the rest all new comers, most of whom had not held a hockey stick at all till practice.This being only my second season coaching (year 9 to year 13 boys) has left me feeling a little blindsided, and feeling quite unsure how to prepare practices that target both groups of boys. Do i lump them both groups together, keep them separate? What drills/exercises to best bring the new comers up to speed.I don't want to neglect either group, keep practice worthwhile for the experienced boys, but also bringing the new comers up to a level were they can mix in with the others and learn organically from them while practicing as a team. David

David Smith Coach, New Zealand

Defending ball and help side

Looking gro theory or practicals on defending help side vs ball side.Any help?

Leroy Coach, South Africa

Social distancing fun Exercises?

Hallo in Belgium we can start the hockey trainingsession again after Corona Lockdown anybody tips for fun social distancing defend and attack games for U7? RgKatrien

katrien Coach, Belgium

defending fast dribblers

what would be advice of left wing or right wing defender defending fast dribbler because if one stays stationary defender will easily be dribbled what would advice defender to do

Maurice Coach, Uganda

Teaching defending passing lanes and pockets

I'm looking for drills that help players recognize how to defend passing lanes and pockets of space rather than man to man coverage

Premier FH Coach, United States of America

triangle defense

how do you defend properly against triangle passing .. any drill suggestions

Brittany angelica Coach, United Arab Emirates

7 sides hockey

What is the best formation and game play for 7 sides tournament in defending and attacking?

Ameer Shazwan Coach, Malaysia

Indoor Hockey

Hi allOver the weekend I coached my U18s and we did well but I wanted to find out, is there any tactics, coaching sessions for indoor hockey to help defend in different structures or heck even stop attackers from getting their angles right0

Damien Life Liversedge Coach, South Africa

Any ideas for defending 3d ski...

I have a midfielder that wants to practice defending against lifted balls in a 1-2-1 situation, any ideas for drills that will assist with this?

Steve Ashdown Coach, England

Short Corner Defence | Sportpl...

Preferred short corner defence running system? 3-1, 2-2. Premier League level - where drag flicks are involved.Goalie - logging or staying up?

Emily Wardeiner Coach, Australia
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