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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...

2D/3D: Combining elimination skills

- Player peforms a sharp change of direction, followed by a stick dink from hockey position, and finish with a one handed lift
- Combining 2D ...

Colour code

Set out lines of cones in two different colours.

One player always along the red line and the other always along the blue cones.

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Full Hockey Pitch

Scoring

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Stix Awards: 3 : Wide Drag and Lift

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Stix Awards: 5 : Jab Tackle

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Street Hockey

Put out lots of short streets around the pitch including some cross-roads some dead-end streets. Ask the players to run with the ball through various ...

Using Board 2 vs 1

The forward (blue 1) gives the ball to the opposition's defender and then tries to win the ball back.

Once they have the ball the defender p...

Wide Goals

Game with 2 teams. Both teams have two goals to score in.

This is to encourage teams to get the ball out of congested areas into the open sp...

Pre-Season Conditioning - Part 2

Hard work doesn't stop! Continue with part two and get your players in the best shape of their lives! ready for the new season.

2 v 1 in a game situation - Drawing in the Defender

Creating 2v1?s across the pitch is the holy grail for attackers. It is an easy and low-risk way of eliminating defenders however can be tricky to crea...

Pre-Season Full Body Conditioning - Part 1

Get your players moving and ready to the hit the ground running with this pre-season plan, working on your side's stamina.

Junior Passing and Receiving - Improving speed of thought

Teach your players that Passing and Receiving is the fastest way to progress the ball up the pitch!

Training for the weekend - Committing fewer fouls

Stop unnecessarily giving away possession through sloppy fouls with this fair play session.

Back To Hockey: Pass & Follow

The session focuses on passing practices, whilst ensuring players are safe at all times adhering to social distancing guidelines.

Vision in the 2v1 - Watching the Left Foot

Help your players spot defender's weaknesses, especially when the odds are stacked in their favour - and make the overload count!

Masterclass - Passing for Possession

Masterclass in the dark arts of passing. Develop your team's passing and help them to get the ball for longer with this possession session!

Coaching Players with Different Abilities in one session

How to run a mixed ability session: Get everyone working, while some players receive a little extra tuition to bring them up to speed!

Attacking the central channel - Narrow Possession

Why let them have the ball!? Just keep it for yourself instead! Create goal scoring chances from just keeping the ball.

I want to use nets in my drills

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3S SKILLS IN THE CIRCLE IN FIELD HOCKEY

Social distancing fun Exercises?

diagonally passing in field hockey

Good evaluation drills for new team

reflextion, reaction lights in Hockey?

How do you hit a reverse stick shot/pass?

Beginner Coach NEED HELP PLEASE

Hi! How do you keep your players committed?