Hockey Session (Under 18s): Bert Combo sweep

The sweep

Essence: Give a low well controled backhand pass to your teammate

Structure: A dribbles towards the blue flaps and gives a sweep bh pass through the flaps to B who is standing behind the middle goal. B receives and does the same thing passing to C, C passes to D etc. Let the kids try with left and rightfoot in front so they can feel what works best for them.

Rotation: Follow your ball. When you have 5 kids or more in the exercise play with 2 balls at the same time.

Pointers: Use a wide grip.

Keep your hands a bit above the ground so you will hit the ball in the centre to make it a low pass.

Give the ball a short powerful punch. No follow through because the ball can end up in your hook that way.

Variation: Make a dummy-pass faking passing to the left. (see drawing).

Make the goals bigger or smaller.

Change of grip the other way, threequarter turn instead of onequarter.

Go faster to make it harder. Go slower to make it easier (maybe even stop before the pass)

Add a pointsystem.