Hockey: Kabadi

Your season starts now! You?ve been doing your fitness work but now it?s time to get a stick in your hands and start working on the basics with this session so that you?re sharp, polished and ready to hit the ground running when the first competitive game comes around.

Teach your players that Passing and Receiving is the fastest way to progress the ball up the pitch!

Four fun passing games to get your players working on their stick-work, teamwork and to get their heads back in the game

There's no goals in this passing focused training - it's designed to improve pass completion, player communication and pass accuracy

Set-up the pitch as shown. Place one player from each side in the opposite End Zone.

Players have to try and get the ball to the player in the End Zone for them to then score a goal. Only the designated players are allowed in the End Zone.

This is a game where you learn to pass the ball beyond defenders, to players in space. No aerial ball allowed. Two teams positioned either side of the 23m line. One player from each team goes to the end zone behind the opposing team. The team with the ball has to try and pass the ball into the end zone behind the defence. Whoever makes the successful pass can join the player in the end zone. The aim of the game is to be the first team to have all their players in the end zone behind the opposition. The ball can only be won by the opposition intercepting a ball on the way to the end zone or back.

Players are trying to keep possession of the ball for as long as possible. Players inside the area can use the two players on the outside of the grid to help them keep the ball.

Set up with cones set out in a square 10m x 10m, and inside the square have two teams of three players each, and one ball between them.

The aim of the game is for each team to make as many one touch (wall) passes as possible. Every wall pass is awarded 1 point.