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Top Rated Drills and Passing on the Move - a Must Read

This week we bring you some of the top rated drills from Sportplan Hockey, scroll down to take a look.

This week's session of the week, is another great session for all levels. Passing effectively on both sides and both feet is now a more essential skill than ever.

With the self-pass rule, players need to be confident in being able to carry the ball from either side of the pitch and pass it off on the move. Opponents will quickly spot a players weak side and can relax if they know a player can not make an effective pass on the move.

Just imagine if you are facing a team whoose left back clearly isn't confident at a self pass - to run and then switch the angle. As an attacker you can stand off and wait for player to take an old style free hit. Don't let this be a weakness in your team, try this session today.

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Commit Defenders and Create Scoring Opportunities

This week we again bring you 2 great sessions, the senior sessions looks at key drills for this time of season, stealing goals on the break. The junior session progresses their development, looking at encouraging players to use the self pass and be confident in commiting a defender before passing the ball from a free hit.

Older Session: Break Hockey - Create Scoring Opportunities

A team that makes the most of break opportunities, can be the difference between winning and losing close games. Whether it be during an end of season race for the title, or battling relegation.

When the opposition make a mistake, you need your players alert and prepared to make the most of it. To make your team take the advantage of the break situation faster, we will work on support the break to create overload of 3 v 1 and we should be able to achieve the increase in speed of the break and therefore more goal scoring opportunities.

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Younger Session: Commit the Defender before you Pass

Self-pass practice to teach players to take the free hit and run at one of the defenders to then pass the ball right or left outside the reach of the defender.

To many times the players on the free hit just pass the ball and don't use the situation to try and take a defender out of the equation before passing the ball.

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Improve Attacking Down the Right

This week we look at session and skills which can be worked with players of all levels. As you know the players you coach best, adjust the intensity of the drills depending on the level of your players. This can spacing of the cones or width of the pitch. Or simply demand more of your players, the speed they execute key skills etc.

The aim of this session is to improve the attacking down the right wing. You need to work on passing and receiving the ball under pressure.

The reason we are doing this is because your team keeps going through the middle and we keep running into defenders. Attacking down the right is traditionally easy as it is the defenders weaker side, but also a cross coming in from the right is much easier for a team mate to run onto and collect and score.

So by doing this session we hope to pass the ball wide to the right and hope that we can use the space down the line to get behind the opposition and create some good opportunities to score.

Notes
Players in possession should look to commit a defender and then i.e. pass the ball past the defenders left foot in to thespace.

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