Excellent drills, very detailed videos. Useful site for my U15 boys team.
I really struggle to make practice fun and useful for the GKs. My attention is naturally focussed on the outfield players, meaning most of the time I simply have drills finishing with a shot on goal to keep the GK involved. Pretty boring for them. Any ideas how I can involve them more? Thanks, Charlie
Does anyone have a link to a few GOOD Hockey Specific fitness tests. And I'm not looking for bleep tests which is somewhat out of date. Many thanks
I have a voucher as part of the level 1 coaching course I am doing. I have registered it but how do I use it? I seem to be limited to 15 free drills a month, but I think I should not be.
when looking at the formation 5-3-2 I would like to get the responsibilities PDF file
...where it will list and describe playing terminology such as shave, tackle-back, steal, forehand.
One thing I have found difficult is developing a drill so it will make practising the skills more challenging. Does anyone have any tips or advice?
Anybody any ideas on a conditioned game to encourage receiving the ball in a forward facing position?
Had Sportsplan a few years ago. Have renewed it this October for 6 months but it doesn't allow me access. I've deleted App and re installed but won't give me full access.
Hi, I would like to cancel my membership, however when I progress through the prompts I am unable to click through to cancel. This is very frustrating. Please can you help me to resolve this issue.Thanks,Kate
at times I receive the emails with links to exercises, but they don't open to show the move my or videos. just now tried to attach pics and it froze again.... any ideas how to resolve,
hi, I contacted you sometime ago and requested that the old card details be removed and new card details to another bank be installed. this hasn't happened again! I require a credit and a new card to be put through.
How do i add a folder and change the clipboard
hi there, I have renewed my subscription on my PC, but my iPhone app is not recognising it. Can you help please
Hi - any chance of adding Padel as a sport?
How do you explain this to a 10 year old
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
I've got some girls aged 11-14, basically made up from two different clubs. We're playing 7 a side and have a squad of 12. One club dominates in terms of numbers (75% of the squad) and although they are not doing anything 'wrong' at all, the 9 players are accustomed to their own company and there's a bit of a divide that has emerged. I can't understand why the players aren't just getting on with things but I'm getting some reactionary behaviour from some players, because of this 2 camp scenario. Any tips?Thanks.
Hi all just wondering if there are any coach's that have any good tip for a new coach like me. I am coaching under 6/8yr olds and find they get bored very easy. How do you keep them from getting bored and what fun drills do you use? Cheer James first time coach
I have been given my first team ever!! They are 11 year old girls and I wanted guide/ recommendation on how I should structure my one hour sessions? E.g. how long should I spend on a warm up, drill etc. .Cheers,Freya
Playing a team who is beating every other team 10+ 0 each game. Is there a defensive formation we could adopt to be competitive ?
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Excellent drills, very detailed videos. Useful site for my U15 boys team.
I love using Sportplan. It's been a great help for co-ordinating hockey practice and being able to help tweak skills and getting the most out of my players!
Great site. An absolute must for coaches who are willing to change and learn new drills. Superb, simply superb.
Wow what a great website, I have found sportplan an important tool for me when planning my netball sessions with my netball team. There are alot of very helpful tips/ideas/skills that I can learn and teach to my team. Thank you sportplan I hope to continue to use your helpful tips and to learn more about improving my teams netball skills. Thanks again....keep it up....
I have been using Sportplan now for 3 years and can honestly say that I have never repeated the same session twice. My girls are always focused and are improving every year. Thanks Sportplan.
What a fantastic tool. The Chalkboard and session tools make an unbelievable difference in making training plans in both time and organization. I will be instructing all of my assistant coaches that this tool must be used for all sessions during the season, so that we may build a club coaching resource library.
I can't get enough of the Sportplan, It has given me back the enthusiasm i was starting to lose. My girls are so keen and are ready at 14 to take the next up in their game. Sportplan will help no end.
