Hockey Tasmania

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Hockey Tasmania

• Junior Hockey Drills and Ideas
• By
• Stewart Pither
• State Development Officer
• March 2001

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Maintaining Interest and Enthusiasm

• Keep training sessions varied and interesting
  with some of the following
• Teach a new skill and finish off training by
  using it in a game situation.
• Use a soccer ball or basketball to play keepings
  off in the 25 yd area as a warm up activity

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Maintaining Interest and Enthusiasm

• Bring along a senior player with all the skills
  to show your team something new.
• Organise a senior goal keeper, properly geared
  up, for the team to have goal shooting practice
  and encourage the teams interest in the goal
  keeping aspect of the game .

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Maintaining Interest and Enthusiasm

• Provide incentives eg for a player who has just
  learnt to push the ball correctly, the longest
  hit or flick etc.
• Join in yourself, show the players that you are
  enjoying the session as well.

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GAMESGame One Space
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• The aim of the game is to encourage players to
  use the space at the side of the field
• Select two teams of four
• To score a goal a team must dribble the ball over
  the baseline under control.
• Push pass only
• Players may run through the OOB area, but if a
  ball is passed into or through the area, the
  offending team must perform a penalty eg push
  ups/ 10m sprints
• Other normal hockey rules apply

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Baseline
O.O.B
Baseline
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Gaining ground or forcing back
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• Players on both teams have a hockey stick
• You might want to vary the type of stroke to be
  used ie hit, push,slap.
• Once the game starts with a bully on the centre
  line the team that wins the ball pushes the ball
  up the field after winning the ball
• the defensive team tries to stop the ball as
  quickly as possible then makes their attempt from
  the spot the ball was stopped

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• The aim is to get the ball over the oppositions
  goal line but neither team is able to cross the
  centre line
• Play starts with the ball in the centre of the
  field.
• Players should be looking for a space to put the
  ball through and should not try to return it into
  the mass of the opposition

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G o a l l i ne
G oal l ine
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Four Corner Hockey
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• Start with two teams.
• A team tries to score through using the hit push
  or slap through either the Bs two goals while
  the B team does the same put the ball through the
  A goals
• Players also have to work on trapping the ball
  and using their vision to see which is the free
  goal to score into

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A
B
B
A

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Two Teams
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• Each team has a player in the marked area.
• Start with a bully on the centre line.
• The team in possession of the ball tries with
  pushing, hitting or slapping (whatever the coach
  requires) by combining with team mates to pass
  the ball to their own player in the marked area.

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• The other team tries to avoid this by
  intercepting the ball.
• Players are not allowed to enter in the marked
  areas.
• If a point is scored, play starts again with a
  bully on the centre line .
• Certain rules can be set by the coach.

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Developing Tactical Hockey with Youngsters
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• Two against two with two goals
• One player from defending team tackles whilst
  the other player covers in behind them.
• Team O tries to score in the goals through
  combining with one another or going solo to
  score.

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• If the Os get the ball they immediately start
  the attack at the other goals.
• Team then becomes the defending team.
• Aim - to change quickly from attack to defence.

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Six a side
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• Play starts with a bully on the centre line.
• Teams can only score by dribbling the ball over
  the opposite end line and by trying to get to the
  opposite line by combining with their team mates
• Normal hockey rules apply

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Target hitting
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• Each player has a ball and a stick, standing in
  the marked area.
• On a signal from the coach the players push the
  ball aiming for the target.
• If the target is touched a point is scored.
• No player is allowed out of their area.

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• Time 3 - 5 minutes seeing which side scores the
  most points .
• Then change player sides over and also get them
  to push off their right foot.
• Aim to teach controlled passing.

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Attack v Defence
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• The attackers O are only allowed to score from
  inside the circle whilst the defenders can
  score in the two goals on the centre line.
• The defenders will be forced to play the ball
  wide (away from the circle) in order to get the
  ball into one of the goals.
• Can be played with variations
• - no running of the ball
• - only touching the ball three times
• - only pushing allowed

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Sideline Hockey
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• Two equal teams line up about 20m apart.
• Coach calls out a number and the two players run
  to where the ball is and try to get the ball
  through the markers by dribbling it through
  them.
• Team O tries to get the ball through goal and
  through Os
• Set a time limit.

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• Variation- call out more than one number and
  introduce hockey rules.
• If more than one number is called encourage the
  players to push pass before scoring a goal.
• Use members of own team to pass the ball to and
  lead for a return pass.

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Four Team Hockey
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• Each team numbers off
• A number is called out and that numbered player
  from each of the four teams tries to score
  through another teams goal.
• The remaining team members try to protect their
  goal.

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Stick Skills Competition
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• Players have to dribble in a marked area, and go
  anywhere they want to go .
• On the signal from the coach each player has to
  go to a certain outside area line.
• Who is the last to get a penalty point?
• Which player has the least points after 5 minutes?

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Dribbling in teams
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• Four goal squares are positioned on the field of
  play, in each of those goals a group of teams are
  positioned.
• On the signal the teams have to move one or two
  areas from their original starting position.
• Which is the first team to their new area?

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Tag and Run
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• The aim of this game is to see, if the player
  with the ball can dribble to the other side of
  the court without being tagged by the other
  player who doesnt have a ball.
• The player with the ball aims to keep control of
  the ball, but also encourage them not to stay on
  a straight line.

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Go
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Dribble Relay
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• The first player from each team goes on the call
  from the coach to the left of the first cone then
  anti clockwise around all the cones until the
  player gets back to their group.
• Repeat for all the other players in the group
• Variation go to the right of the first cone and
  clockwise around the cones.
• Once the the first player gets to the first cone
  the next player in the group goes - vision is
  required by the players

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