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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...

Open Side Block Tackle

category: Defending-Skills

Hockey Open side Block Tackle Defending Skills Strong low body position and balanced ready to move. Left foot forward, right foot back, stick on the ...

Shave Tackle - Reverse

category: Video-Techniques

Hockey Shave Tackle - reverse Video Techniques - A shave challenge is when a defender makes a sweeping challenge from behind, moving the ball away fr...

Jab Tackle

category: Defending-Skills

Hockey Jab Tackle Defending Skills The jab can be used as a form of delay either to dispossess a player with the ball if the ball is away from the st...

Block Tackle Forehand

category: Video-Techniques

Hockey Block Tackle forehand Video Techniques - Performing a block stick challenge in an 1 v 1 situation.

Block Tackle - Reverse

category: Video-Techniques

Hockey Block Tackle - reverse Video Techniques - Using a reverse stick block challenge to gain possession of the ball.

6 Zone: Passive Defending

category: Conditioned-Games

- 6 on 6 drill
- Split a half pitch into 6 sections
- A forward and a defender should be in each section
- Defenders can only interc...

Attacking Tight Peel

category: Passing-Receiving

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Objective: To get the attacking player to r...

Channelling Proud To Coach

category: Roles-and-Responsibilities

Difficulty of the skill: Red - a difficult core skill for ages 7-9 years and upwards. As players progress and develop the difficul...

Cover And Delay - Proud To Coach

category: Roles-and-Responsibilities

Head The defending player should constantly scan for possible tackling opportunities, teammates to channel the ball carrier into and possible passing ...

Jailbreak

category: Warm-up-Games

One team runs clockwise round the inside of the circle with the other team running anti-clockwise around the outside of the circle (blue cones).

Low Reverse Stick Tackle

category: Defending-Skills

- Set up a small area, with 2 forwards and 2 defenders
- The forward players should dribble towards the weaker side (the left foot) of the def...

Low Reverse Stick Tackle

- Set up a small area, with 2 forwards and 2 defenders
- The forward players should dribble towards the weaker side (the left foot) of the def...

Marking And Chaneling

category: Defending-Skills

As the attacker makes lead runs left and right the defenders main concern is to be between the attacker and the D.

If there was a huge stic...

Marking and Chaneling

Numbers Intercept

category: Possession

Teams of 3 - 4 players. Each team numbers themselves 1-2-3-4 and has one ball. The ball should be passed around the team in numerical order whils...

One Handed Block - Open Stick

category: Defending-Skills

Players set up in pairs, this is a 1 v 1 situation

One player starts with the ball and dribbles towards the defender

The defende...

One Handed Block - Reverse Stick

category: Defending-Skills

Players set up in pairs, this is a 1 v 1 situation

One player starts with the ball and dribbles towards the defender

The defende...

Reverse Stick Drag And Pass To Score

category: Overload-situations

Players in pairs with the ball on the right.

Player 1 runs into the circle towards the defender. The defender runs out, with their body pos...

Steal - Reverse Stick

category: Defending-Skills

Players are split up into pairs

One player starts with the ball and runs about 5 yards into space, with the defender behind them to the l...

Tackling In A Crowded Area

category: Defending-Skills

- Set up a rectangular box
- One forward and one defender
- Ball is bounced in, and the forward has to try and use elimination skills to ...

Tackling in a Crowded Area

- Set up a rectangular box
- One forward and one defender
- Ball is bounced in, and the forward has to try and use elimination skills to ...

Tackling Techniques

category: Session-Videos

- This is a combination of two videos currently used

Ath tackling with mark knowles

Mark Knowles of the Australian Men's Hockey Team with some tackling techniques.

How to tackle in field hockey | hockey for beginners

Team Singapore hockey player Laura Tan talks us through the basic steps to the different types of tackles in field hockey. Join her and SportSG brand ...

How to tackle in field hockey with eva de goede (2 x olympic gold medalist)

How to tackle in field hockey: https://hockeyperformanceacademy.com Eva De Goede (2 x Olympic Gold Medalist from the Netherlands) demonstrates how to ...

Defensive Principles; Shadowing and Channelling

Review the basics of defending with this session working on shadowing, channelling and timing tackles

High Speed Elimination PLUS Closing Down to Slow Attacks

Attack at pace by perfecting high-speed eliminations with a variety of different skills. PLUS equip your defenders with the understanding of how to re...

Low Speed Elimination PLUS Closing Down to Tackle

Eliminate at low speed by recognising the space and utilizing it to beat the defender. The two-way session also works on your defenders movement to cl...

Man to Man Marking Behind the Zone

Conceding sloppy goals? Reinforce good habits to improve your players' defensive movement and communication.

Defensive Interceptions - Be first to the ball

Read the signs, time your run and cut out their pass teach your players to watch their eyes, drive and steal the ball

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Channeling Defensive Drill

Att1 Dribbles down the pitch trying to pass to Att2. Def1 tries to keep Att1 from passing, without tackling. By the time Att1 gets to Def2, Def2 attem...

Defensive tackling box

The aim is for the blue player to put the ball through the 2 red conesthe red player has to stop that from happening by tackling/intercepting the ball...

Tracking back and tackling

Red player passes the ball through the white gate.Blue player intercepts and runs for goal.Red player has to run through the red gate and then has to ...

tackling drill

Autosave 50264533

Conditioned game:Split into ability groups by bib colour. Greens at one end of pitch, oranges at other end.2 games at opposite ends of pitch, using ri...

3 drill set-up: dribble, tackle, pass

Players split into 3 groups and rotate between drills.Dribbling: dribble through the triangle following each other good for vision.tackling: channelli...

End zone hockey

Two sides, possesion based game, must make a pass to a team-mate in their scoring "end-zone" whilst defending their own end-zone, similar to...

Tackling Channels

Red passes to BlueBlue attacks Red Defends1 point for getting out bottom orange, 3 points for green, 5 for tackle!Keep own scorePurpose: Defensive- k...

Passing Warm Up

7v3 + 2 ballsBlue players pass to another free blue player and then sprint to a cone. Once they have touched a cone on one side they need to touch a c...