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Hockey: Slide out

Excellent, used the drills at our first training session today with...

Shane, Hockey Coach

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Goal keeper starts on the goal line.

Coach places a ball inside the circle. GK has to run towards the ball and try to slide the ball with pads or body out of the circle.

COACHING POINTS

Timing is very important the GK has to try and slide through the ball.

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Touch the cone and save:

Coach stands at the top of the circle and calls out a colour of a cone. Goal keeper has to touch the cone and recover back to the goal to try and save the shot.

Coach should give the GK a Change. (how ever small)

Goal keeping

Speedy Feet:

Setup as shown.

Coach and goalkeeper about 1m apart.

Coach starts with some balls about 8m out. The coach feeds the ball to the goalkeeper who quickly kicks the ball into the goal. This can be done on either foot or a mixture of both feet.

If the goalkeeper finds it to hard, then move further back to give them more reaction time.

Goal keeping

Triangle Movement Drill:

Setup the practice as shown.

The space between the penalty spot and the 1st cone should be 2m and the same distance between the penalty spot cone and the cone nearest the top of the circle.

The goalkeeper starts on the penalty spot and on the command moves forwards to the first cone before moving diagonally backwards to cone 2 and then moves sideways back to the penalty spot to kick the ball into the goal.

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Save behind:

Keeper starts between 2 cones approx 5m away from the centre of the goal two players stand either side with 3 balls each.

The first player roles the ball towards the goal. GK has to try and save the ball get up and back to between the 2 cones on reaching them the second player rolls the ball to the other side of the goal GK has to try and save again and get back to the cones.

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