Hockey Session (Under 10s): Hawks Spring League Ball control week 2 U10/U12

Field Hockey BC

Matt Sarmento

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Name:	Matt Sarmento
City:	Vancouver
Country:	Canada
Membership:	Adult Member
Sport:	Hockey

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Hockey Session Plan Drill (Colour): Ladders + warm up skills

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Ladders + warm up skills (10 mins)

1 - Half or full field jog, get moving. Dynamic stretches + lunges.

2 - Ladders for agility. Can use sticks laid out on the ground: high knees over, hopscotch, hopping, single leg hops, crossovers, backwards running... be creative!

3 - Stick and ball stationary skills: each player with 2 cones about a stick length apart. Practice big pulls from cone to cone, figure 8s around cones (feet stationary), switch directions etc. Emphasize good body position (knees bent, chest + eyes up). How many can you do in a minute??

4 - Air dribbling: Pop ball up to yourself (no hands, practice being able to lift ball). How many touches can you do before the ball drops?

Hockey Session Plan Drill (Colour): Name Game

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Name Game (10 mins)

All players are in the circle, or other designated space.

Half the players have balls, half to not.

All players move around in space and those who do not have balls call for the ball from the players who do.

Can make it a competition by going for 2-3 mins and saying those who have a ball at the end win

- must learn everyone's name in order to be successful!

- no one should ever be stationary

- no passing 2 balls to 1 player - awareness

- make the space big enough so players can maintain distance from each other

Hockey Session Plan Drill (Colour): Ball Carrying

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Ball Carrying (20 mins)

Set up a number of lines of cones. Each player (or pair/group of 3 players) should have their own to maximize both social distancing and each players touches on the ball.

Purpose of this exercise is ball carrying. Ball should be at about 1-2 o'clock, just off to the right of each player, as they are dribbling forward. Encourage them to keep their left elbows high and a bend in their knees (eyes + chest up).

1 - straight dribble up and turn left (all forehand)

2 - straight dribble up and turn right (using reverse stick to turn)

3 - slalom through cones using both forehand and reverse stick skills

4 - big pulls from red cone to yellow cone. Emphasize pulling straight across and not forward on a diagonal.

If in pairs or groups of 3, turn this into a relay race to make it a bit more exciting.

Progressions:

- Turn right using only forehand (feet have to move!)

- Left and right foot pivots to turn around

- Lifted skills

- V drags

- Right hand only

- Left hand only (forehand and reverse)

Hockey Session Plan Drill (Colour): pass/dribble in a square

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pass/dribble in a square (20 mins)

In groups of 3 or 4:

Ball will continuously travel as shown. Player A starts by dribbling around the blue cone and passing across their body (feet forward) to player B who has left their cone to receive on the move. Player B then dribbles around the blue cone in front of them and passes across their body to player C. Player C repeats, exactly the same as A did. Each player follows to the next cone after they pass, to get ready to receive once the ball comes back around.

*All passes and receptions should be IN MOTION!*

Variations:

- change the direction

- pass off right foot, in motion

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- use backhand sweeps to pass (in opposite direction than what is shown)

- lifted passes

Hockey Session Plan Drill (Colour): rob the nest

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rob the nest (20 mins)

Set up 4 nests, one in each corner. Each team defends two nests. The objective of the game is to get all the other team's balls into your own nests.

RULES:

-no tackling (so no guarding the nests, everyone must be trying to dribble)

-can only take one ball at a time

-dribbling only (aka no passing)

-must deliver ball to nest properly and under control (no balls being passed into the nest etc.)

*it may take a very long time for a team to win. If this is the case, set a time limit and the team with the most balls after 2 mins wins

(This is basically capture the flag with multiple balls and no tagging)

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