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3D skills Drills

As your hockey players develop stick control then you should be looking to teach them 3D hockey control skills. These are advanced ways of keeping con...

Bola Machine Drills

The world renowned hockey BOLA machine has been specially adapted to fulfil a wide range of Hockey training needs following extensive consultation and...

Conditioned Games

These fun and challenging games are played under drill conditions and are ideal when you want to improve match skills in a live situation. Conditioned...

Defending Skills Drills

A hockey defender's main role is to stop the attack, regain possession of the ball and pass the ball to a fellow player to begin an attack from the ba...

Game related Drills

These field hockey training games improve how your team defend and attack as a team. These games cover everything from keeping possession as a team to...

Grips Drills

The grip is the way your player holds the hockey stick with their hands. There is little variation in how a player can hold a hockey stick, but as you...

Indoor Hockey Drills

This is the indoor variant of traditional outdoor field hockey. It began as a pastime for players during the off-season. The key difference between fi...

Movement off the ball Drills

Movement off the ball is vital if you want your hockey players to get into space to receive a pass and open up opportunities for attacks to develop. T...

Moving with the ball Drills

Moving with the ball, also known as dribbling, is how a player moves with the ball when in their possession using a hockey stick. The dribbling drills...

Overload situations Drills

Hockey overloads occur when a team has more attacking players than defending players in one area of the pitch - giving them a numerical superiority an...

Passing & Receiving Drills

Passing and receiving are fundamental skills in the game of field hockey and determine the success of your team. The best teams make the ball do the w...

Possession Drills

Keeping possession of the ball is your team's best way of maintaining the advantage over their opponents and to fabricate goal scoring opportunities. ...

Practices For Juniors

These junior hockey drills and videos are aimed at teaching younger or novice players the basics of the game and get them used to using the stick to c...

Rebound Blocks Drills

Field hockey rebound blocks allow players to practise passing and receiving on their own. The rebound block acts like a passing partner by rebounding ...

Roles and Responsibilities Drills

These drills and videos outline the positions on a field hockey pitch and what is required by each player in those position. How you set your hockey t...

Scoring on the break Drills

Scoring on the break is a very common form of attack in field hockey, if you watch the Australians you may believe it is the only form of attack. It o...

Self Pass Drills

In 2009 Hockey introduced a "self-pass" rule from a free hit (an unobstructed hit by a player who has been fouled by an opponent). It enables the pla...

Set Pieces Drills

Set pieces, sometimes referred to as set-plays in hockey, happen when restarting a game after a foul, the taking of a corner, penalty corner or hit in...

Shooting & Goalscoring Drills

Your players' hockey shooting and goal scoring ability will ultimately determine if your team wins games. Goals win matches! Shooting should only be d...

Skill Circuit Drills

These hockey skill circuit drills will give you great ideas on how to create fun and engaging practice sessions for your players. They're also ideal i...

Video Techniques

Solid grasp of hockey techniques is often the difference between average and good players. Good technique ranges from how a player holds the stick (gr...

Warm-up Games

Warm up games in hockey not only serve as an introduction to any good training, but they are essential to any practice session because they are a grea...

Basic Grip

category: Grips

Hockey Basic grip Grips Holding the Stick Place your left hand at the top of stick and right hand at the bottom of the stick. Grips will change for ....

Jailbreak

category: Warm-up-Games

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Kabadi

category: Possession

Hockey Kabadi Possession Set up with two teams, each team having their own area in which they keep possession by passing the ball around.

Stick Stop

category: Set-Pieces

Hockey Stick Stop Set Pieces - Performing the stick stop on a penalty corner. ... search our library of 1000+hockey drills; create professional coachi...

Break Hockey

category: Scoring-on-the-break

One defender dribbles with ball into the area in which two attackers are waiting to tackle for the ball. On winning the ball the two attackers run out...

Chase Ball

category: Passing-Receiving

Set up two teams of 3, with a ball per team in two interlocking triangles.

One of the teams starts passing the ball. The second team then pa...

Frequently Asked Questions

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Full Hockey Pitch

category: Extras

Half Hockey Pitch

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Scoring

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Suggested Layout

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The 3 - 1 - 3 - 3 Formation

category: Roles-and-Responsibilities

This document explains the 3 - 1 - 3 - 3 formation.

The European Sweeper System is a naturally fluid one; currently played by the majority of t...

The rules of hockey (field hockey) - explained!

Ninh explains the Rules of Hockey. A beginner's explanation of the popular game of Hockey (Rules). Watch this short tutorial ...

The best field hockey goals of 2020 [part 1]

2020 has been a crazy and unexpected year for field hockey, with now games being played for almost half of the year. There were ...

The best field hockey goals of 2019 [part 1]

Hello, in today's video I will be showing you a selection of my favourite field hockey goals from 2019 from competitions such as the ...

Keep the Ball: Stop the other team scoring on the break

Kill the game, consolidate a lead and learn to love having the ball. Keeping the ball can be your best form of defence!

Moving with the ball - Improving Dribbling and Scanning

How do you play hockey if you don't know what's going on around you? Get your young players moving with their eyes up to become passing demons!

3 vs 1 Break Hockey - Create Scoring Opportunities

Don't dilly-dally. Teach your players to win the turnover and drive quickly CHARGE up the field to make the most of the fast break!

Push pass with disguise: Send them the wrong way

Passes too easy to read? If so this plan will help your players Push Pass with disguise, to keep the defender guessing

Passing to create deep space

Run deep into space and look for that fast, attacking pass, deep in opposition territory!

Improving forward vision (Pre and Post scanning)

Help your players make better decisions by scanning the field before and after they've received the ball!

Junior Session: Improving Passing in the 2 vs 1

Don't let poor passing hold back your attack! Use this session to help players pick out that killer pass in the attacking third

Receiving the ball with the reverse stick trap

This skill session looks at how to stop the ball using the reverse stick and how to transfer it to your stronger side for the dribble

Bite Size Fitness 9

Don't miss this final 30 minute fitness session - Coach it as a whole or use it as a way to bring new ideas to your pre-match routines

Putting MORE power in the push pass

Teach the push pass to improve your players' passing technique, and their ability to make accurate passes over short-medium distances

Just beginning to coach 7-8 year olds in hockey..any?

Right-Wing Position

Is it too late for me to get involved in hockey?

Mini games I could use in a school enviroment?

FIH format change - for better or for worse?

How do you teach children aged 7 how to play a hockey match?

Coaching plan (season outline) for coming season?

How to coach school team with novices and experienced players?

Fun Warm ups with 7-11 year olds

I'm a new Varsity head coach and don't know what I'm doing

Street Hockey

Indoor hockey combination drill 2

Hockey (hit pass)

Hockey Torunament

Circle Tag Hockey

Warm-up: Umspieltechniken/Torschusstechniken Hockeytennis

Umspiel-/Torschusstechnik Start blaue Hüttchen-Reihe nach Umspielen erfolgt ein Pass zum roten Hüttchen mit Nachlaufen

Clinic (Versie 2: 3 oefeningen)

1. Tijdens het dribbelen van de bal veel liever drijven dan kleine tikjes geven. 2. Bij pass-oefeningen zorg ervoor dat het aannemen + passen (2...

Training 4 - 7 maart - oef 3

Alle looplijnen mogen worden geoefend op het middenveld. Zeer intensieve oefeningen op basketball fullgass tempo. liniehockeyOnbewust: 3 keer rak...

Hockey on mobile

Bou - Corners Robert - 5v5 'zaal hockey'

Bou - (Kobe, Fleurie, Bente) Robert - 5v5 using the ropes as the side lines, so the players do not have to stop, constantly working to keep the ball u...