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Hockey Community Defending Skills

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 back.

The defending training videos and drills below will hone your players' defensive skills both as individuals in 1v1s and as a team.

The art of defending is broken down into various techniques including channelling, blocking, jab tackling stealing and moving in pairs to cover each other.

Skill training and defensive drills

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Circle Defence & Attack 1 v 1

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Passing & Receiving / Dribbling Through the gate

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Without the Ball - Channeling

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Shave Tackle

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Ryde hockey: basics of marking

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Channeling - defend the centre

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Flat Triangle Defense

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Defense tracking and movement

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Dribble around the defender

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Channeling Defensive Drill

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Channeling onto defenders stick

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Warming up game

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Defending the baseline-3v3 using pockets

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Basic Stepping and Pressing

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Circle marking

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2 v 1 recovery

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Blocktackle [1]

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1v1 Progressing into 2v2

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